Six Forces That Drive Emerging Technologies
Thornburg (2008a)
Module 3: This week’s Blog focuses on Rhyme of History
· Rhyme Of History – Current technology is a product of past technology that was once regarded new and innovative. The affect or impact of new development rekindles the old technology. It is how technology is being used that rekindles technology (Thornburg, 2009). The new technology is a repeat of past technology that still meeting the needs of humans. With that said, a technology that reminds us of the Blackboard is the innovative Smart Board. The white Smart Board provides to its audience the ability to interact with objects on screen thus enhancing student learning. However, it is the ability to write on the board that flash back to an era when the Blackboard was regarded innovative simply because teachers were able to share information to a group of student versus one student at a time. Thus the Smart Board is the Rhyme of history of the slated Blackboard. New technology came about by need. New technology came about by chance. New technology is recognized as an impact to society many years after its inventor created it.
References
Laureate Education, Inc. (2009). Emerging and future technology. Baltimore, MD: Author.
O’Connor, N. (2010). Bye Bye Blackboard. Shaker Life [Web Article]. Retrieved from
Thornburg, D. (2008a). An amazingly incomplete emerging technologies bibliography. Lake Barrington, IL: Thornburg Center for Space Exploration.
Lynda,
ReplyDeleteI thought about this too but I got stuck at white boards! I didn't even think about chalk boards (even though that is all I had when I first started to teach!). Something I have noticed at my daughter's school is that they have a SmartBoard in the computer lab. In the classroom, there are regular white boards and then each child has their own dry erase board. I like this mixing of technologies.
Do you think that by using the evolution of a technology can helps use not only improve but also remember how a technology began?
Erica
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ReplyDeleteLynda,
ReplyDeleteErica's post led me to thinking is the interactive whiteboard (IWB) a rhyme of history or an evolutionary technology? It unites several recent technologies with an older technology updating an ancient and nearly universal classroom technology.
Interestingly, many in the tech world do not like IWBs. Some view it as mere continuation of the teacher as lecturer, standing at the board dispersing information. Most research does not point to much impact on student performance (see links). The one link below that does is interesting. It cites Marzano Research as an independent researcher, which they truly are not. They currently are hawking Promethean's ActivClassrooms environments.
Scott
Links:
http://www.techlearning.com/article/Blogs/Blogs/36842
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/10/AR2010061005522.html
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2010/11/study_whiteboard_suite_leads_t.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~tony.poulter/IWBs/research.htm