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Friday, July 15, 2011

 SixForcesofEmergingTechnologies

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.

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