Integrating Technology Into the Curriculum

Session 2: Technology and society

Warm-up"Schools are widely failing in their responsibility to teach students about digital technologies. They substitute computer use and online experience for a many-sided, socially and psychologically aware understanding of the technology." Steve Talbott (2007). Devices of the Soul, p. 136.Reflect on the above quote…

Technology and the self Marshall McLuhan:

“All media are extensions of some human faculty – psychic or social.” The Medium is the Massage (1968)

“Any extension, whether of skin, hand, or foot, affects the whole psychic and social complex.” Understanding Media (1964)

Technology and society "At a certain stage of their development, the

material productive forces of society come into conflict with … the property relations within which they have been at work hitherto. From forms of development of the forces of production these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed.“ Karl Marx (1859)

The Digital Revolution Moore’s Law The Digital Advantage Stages of development Adjusting the boundaries of the

possible

Ambiguous quote

“Only those who lived before the revolution know how sweet life can be.”

- Talleyrand

Technology and consciousness We experience the world through our

media / technology

The world begins to look like our technology

Or, our technology begins to look like our consciousness, and so becomes the world.

The Laws of MediaEvery medium:

Extends (Enhances) Overloads (Reverses) Retrieves Obsolesces

McLuhan's Laws of Media

Educational Technology Tetrads1. Find a partner. You and

your partner will be assigned an educational technology.

2. On a sheet of paper, make a square and divide it into four quadrants.

3. For your technology, fill in each quadrant using McLuhan’s “4 Laws” model.

Enhances Reverses

Retrieves Obsolesces