Instructional Technology

Past, Present, & Future

Abstract

-Past influences-Present issues in integrating technology-Changes needed-Future implications

Intro

-Changes, changes,

and more changes

ALWAYS!

What is instructional technology?

Instructional technology = Educational technology

GOAL = to learn

Always Improve

History

1920’s

Brain – muscle

Empirical Knowledge

History

1930’s

Great Depression

Slowed things down

History

1940’s

World War II

Rush for advancement

History

1950’s

B.F. Skinner

Blooms Taxonomy

Internet for military

History

1960’s

Audio Visual Era

History

1970’s

Search for new

“Traditional” style

History

1980’s

George Bush

Push to Standards Based

History

1990’s

Business & Internet take off

History

Print Press

Internet

MAJOR CHANGES NOW

Past Trends

1996 – 2002

Don Eley’s 8 Trends

Present Situation

•“Need to be Connected”

Present Situation

•Collaboration

Present Situation

•Symbols

Present Situation

•Literacy

Present Situation

•Attention Spans

Joke

Rip Van Winkle

We are different

LEARN different = TEACH different

Change is needed!

Future

Prepare for success and nothing less!

Implications

United States –

3rd world country soon?

2007 Horizon Report

- User-Created Content - Social Networking

- Mobile Phones - Virtual Worlds

- The New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication- Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

(Horizon Report, 2007, 6)

National Center on Education and the Economy

1. Assume that we will do the job right the first time

2. Make much more efficient use of the available resources.

3. Recruit from the top third of the high school graduates going on to college for the next generation of school teachers

4. Develop standards, assessments, and curriculum that reflect today’s needs and tomorrow’s requirements.

5. Create high performance schools and districts everywhere - how the system should be governed financed, organized, and managed.

(Tough Choices, 2007, 9-20).

6. Provide high - quality universal early childhood education.

7. Give strong support to the students who need it worst.

8. Enable every member of this adult workforce to get the new literacy skills.

9. Create personal competitiveness accounts – a GI Bill for our times.

10. Create regional competitiveness authorities to make America competitive (Tough Choices, 2007, 9-20).

National Center on Education and the Economy

Conclusion

- Change is inevitable

- The sooner the better

References

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Ely, D.P. (2002). Trends in educational technology. (Report No. IR-113). Washington, DC: Department of Education. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED-99-CO-0005)

References

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References

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Credits

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