Using Grammatical Signals Suitable to Patterns of Idea Development
The Scary Monsters of Ed Tech: Future Proof or Future Shock?
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The Scary Monsters of Ed Tech:
Future Proof or Future Shock?
Professor Mark Brown
Dublin City University
Jyvaskyla, Finland
25th August 2018
8. “With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”
(Uzanne, 1994; cited
in McFarlane, 1997, p.173).
9. (Uzanne, 1894; cited
in McFarlane, 1997, p.173).
“With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”
10. “I believe that the motion picture is destined to
revolutionize our educational system and that
in a few years it will supplant largely, if not
entirely, the use of textbooks,”
(Thomas Edison, 1922)
11. “We will undoubtedly have lectures of every
conceivable kind presented to us right in our
homes, when practical television arrives,
possibly a year or two off.”
Short Wave Craft, 1935
13. Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology
since 1920. New York: Teachers’ College Press.
Subsided Enthusiasm
Growing
Support
Bold Predictions
Technology
Expectation Cycle
(1986)
43. Knowledge Economy
TWO MAJOR WORLDVIEWS
COMPETING
DIGITAL
FUTURES
• Threat
• Unbundling
• Re-imagination
Crisis •
Disruption •
Democratization •
44. “And we’ve got to bring on the competition — open the
schoolhouse doors and let parents choose the best school for
their children. Education reformers call this school choice, charter
schools, vouchers, even opportunity scholarships. I call it competition
— the American way.”
Donald Trump, in
his book “The
America We
Deserve”
45. Knowledge Economy
TWO MAJOR WORLDVIEWS
Knowledge Society
COMPETING
DIGITAL
FUTURES
• Threat
• Unbundling
• Re-imagination
Crisis •
Disruption •
Democratization •
46. “Education has a crucial role to play in laying the foundations
of a society that is more inclusive, participatory and
equal...” The President said “…the role of the university in
enabling citizens to develop the tools to address the great challenges
of our time – global poverty, climate change and
sustainability – was vital.
47. Knowledge Economy
• Threat
• Unbundling
• Re-imagination
Crisis •
Disruption •
Democratization •
TWO MAJOR WORLDVIEWS
Knowledge Society
COMPETING
DIGITAL
FUTURES
• Democratic
• Opening access
• Micro credentials
• Personalized learning
• Competencies
• Entrepreneurship
• Technology as progress
• Increased market competition
• Just society
• Lifelong learning
• Pillars of learning
• Education for citizenry
• Sifting agent
• Human capital
• Social cohension
• Cultural heritage
ReconceptualizingDeschooling
ReschoolingReproducing
58. 2017
Carretero, S., Vuorikari, R., & Punie, Y.
(2017). Available from
http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repo
sitory/bitstream/JRC106281/web-
digcomp2.1pdf_(online).pdf
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Final remarks…
• Risks of future-proofing
• Not on independent trajectory
• Promote citizenry for better futures
MB: The concept of digital literacy was first introduced back in 1997 and as this seminal book illustrates there are many and varied interpretations of this concept.
This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
Borrowing the words of President Michael Higgins, from this perspective higher education has a role in promoting more inclusive, participatory, equitable and sustainable futures for all.
This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.