educ370 su12 1.1 introduction lecture

Introduction:What can Thomas Jefferson, Osama Bin Laden

and the Roman Forum Tell Us Aboutthe Changing Classroom Landscape?

Jason NeifferEDUC 370

Summer 2012

Roman Forum

Thomas Jefferson

Osama Bin Laden

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K. McCoy

Raul 654

Orphum

I cannot livewithout books...

Information is the currency of democracy...

If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people

happy?

Access to information = Democracy Internet = Access to information

thusInternet = Democracy

+ The Internet

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September 11, 2001

Credit: Richard Drew

Credit: Steve Greenblatt, http://thecreativejuice.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/old-scars-are-itching-today/

September 11, 2011:What has changed in

10 years?

Mobile Access

Mobile AccessCreation

Death of Email

May 1, 2011

Compelling Story +Effortless Connections =

New Way to Engage to Stories

+ The Internet

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2000

2011

2011

Technologies Give Access to More Real Time Data, More Access to Our Own Experts and Ways to Share Out Both

+ The Internet

The Point?

1800 2001 2011

James F. Clay

A note of caution...