Connecting with Technology.
Ideas for curriculum
- Don’t just copy things
- Levels of Authority – is the information reliable, EDU sites are better than non-edu sites?
- Can you put this in your own words?
- Can you explain your ideas to others
- Can you explain it simply
- Read deeply/ ask questions.
- Deep Understanding and Use the Knowledge as you Learn it
- Avoid scattered Ideas
- Attention Economy – you have so much attention to work with ( potential information overload)
- When to put things technology away
- Organizing Information
II. Methods for improving Information fluency
- Fluency with Information Technology
- Identify gaps in information and determine search strategy
“The pedagogic strategy of breaking down information and concepts into bit-sized chunks is so interwoven with the striptease function of PowerPoint that we can confidently judge them to be jointly culpable for the current reign of the bullet point
Quoted from From: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Education-Cyberspace-Ray-Land/dp/0415328829
III. Cultural Norms
- Social Etiquette
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Cyber bullying – what to do if you know of it or its happening to you?
IV. Technology and Its responsibility/consequence
- How to be a Good Citizen
- What are the digital Bill of Rights
V. Safety/Privacy/Security
- Cyber-safety
- Cyber-security/privacy
VI. Legality/Censorship – Citizenship (Political World)
- Censorship
- Legality
Implementation:
1. What it is to be a digital/future citizen
2. Robot Workers (maybe robot rights) – uncanny valley. Consider how to interact with visitors/prejudice/strangers?
3. Sustainability/New Animals/creatures
4. Living with Technology
For game in future: Perhaps think also playing: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings from