Teacher and Technology - Music Sept 25, 2012

Lab

Choosing a blog / wiki / web site for your Assign 3
Sharing - google docs, dropbox, MS SkyDrive
SumoPaint - create an image of hwo you feel about tech in the classroom or how you feel about technology

Class

Joel - sound system demo?

Important Idea #6 and 7

Smartboard intro - basics that should have worked

Find someone you haven’t worked with in class before and compare your ideas from the readings. You can use the following if you need to.

• Is Mander right about a ‘global conspiracy’ by corporations to run the earth? Does he over-glamourize indigenous cultures or are we not paying enough attention to them?
• Do you speak another language? Are there ideas or expressions that do not translate well? Does language limit how we think?
• Is Postman right that tech advantages are never distributed equally?

Tweet your best thoughts to #umtandt

Next class - SMARTBoard setup and use.
More on big issues and metaphors

Read/Watch/Listen list for Sept 25 and 27

Issues related to technology - language is important!!!

At least TWO of the following and bring your notes:
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You - http://www.sustainable-city.org/intervws/mander.htm
Videos:
http://fora.tv/2006/11/28/Paradigm_Wars#fullprogram - You can watch just segments of this using the choices listed. It would not play in Firefox for me, but was fine in Chrome.
General videos by Mander - or do your own search
Metaphor
Lakoff and Johnson - Metaphors We Live By - and a summary and Bower's critique
Lakoff video of how this started
Lakoff  video - Framing
Neil Postman - Five Things we should Know About Technological Change