Cole Camplese Keynote Address

Cole Camplese, Senior Director Teaching and Learning with Technology Pennsylvania State University

Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water

Young kids use technology differently than what we knew “technology” as growing up

Different expectations about technology

High School student “going to school is like getting on a plane…you sit down, strap in, and turn off all your stuff. You can’t turn them back on until you have landed at the other side”.

Technology is only technology to those born before technology – Alan Key

Expectation--I want to be able to do what I can out there.

Want real connectivity

1975

TV Stations

News happened at 6:00 and 10:00 it didn’t happen in between

Advertising

Radio Stations

Now

Media Universe—Mobile World we are living in now

Web 1.0 (technology)

Web 2.0 Architecture of participation easy available collaborative people—it’s about people connecting to other people (It’s not the technology)

· How they access information 40% of our students watch tv on their computer

· How they connect with media

· How they control media

· How they create media 33% create and share media

Teaching and Learning 2.0

Students as amplifiers

Identity is so different now--metaidentities

Digital Marker

Multi-channel discourse

Digital Text—Authenticate

Females write 3 times as much as males

Females tend to continue to write after the semester

“Remix as dialogue” just one layer of storytelling

Youtube dot com theme song by Irving Fields

New pedagogies embedded in these technologies/social networks

They also need to be supported