Relevant, Open & Engaging:A Vision for Technology Education
at an Urban Metropolitan University
Joe McCarthy22 February 2009
Science & Technology:Empowering & Delightful
"To facilitate informed public participation in technological decision making, to decrease the alienation too many citizens feel from our technological society, and for the sheer joy that comes from knowing a thing well, we need better science education, a superior communication of its powers and delights.”
- Carl Sagan
Glocalization in Education
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein
Think globally; learn, work & contribute locally.
Predisposition toward Relevance
A navigation device for helping pilots steer ocean-going ships through Puget Sound's waterways safely into port under difficult Northwest weather conditions.Larry Wear & Charles Bryan
Human-computer interaction design innovations for making blind people’s lives easier.Kristen Shinohara & Josh Tenenberg
Student leaders of UWT’s Grey Hat Group assembled a panel of experts and raised $10K to put on a 2-day computer security conference that educated people about ways to protect themselves from identity theft.Mary Jane Kelly & Amalia Annest
Regional Relevance
South Puget Sound
Urban Relevance (& Renewal)
Digital Cities
Climate on the Wall
NEWworkCITY
Trash | Track
CoCollage
http://bit.ly/digital_cities_6
Predisposition to Openness
Promoting Co-Promotion
The importance of overcoming academics’ aversion to “shameless self-promotion”
Industry Fellows program Math & Science Leadership program
Open Source Grading
http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/crowdsourcing-grading-revisited-public-gets-act
Engagement
Engagement thruEducation + Entrepreneurship
txteagle
Mobile Apps in the U.S. forHealth & Civic Engagement
http://www.text4baby.org/ http://www.citysourced.com/
The Glocalization of the Internet
http://foursquare.com/venue/48620
Location-Based Games for Good
http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/location-based-social-good/
http://www.causeworld.com
A Vision for Technology Educationat an Urban Metropolitan University• Relevance– A leader in the innovative use of technology for
urban & regional problems
• Openness– A model of openness and transparency
• Engagement– Continuous exploration of new ways to engage
our urban metropolitan community
Relevant, Open & Engaging:A Vision for Technology Education
at an Urban Metropolitan University
Joe McCarthyhttp://interrelativity.com/joehttp://gumption.typepad.comhttp://twitter.com/gumption
http://www.slideshare.net/gumption
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Backup
A Brief History of Joe (part 1)
A Brief History of Joe (part 2)
Web 2.0: An Internet of People
Web 3.0: An Internet of Things?
“The Catalogue”Chris Oakley
Web 3.1: An Internet of Places