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Section 1: What are the promises or benefits of technology?


 * Completed above - JB - 1. Improves Communication**
 * Provides another way to communicate with parents in a faster and more convenient method (Cuban, 2001) **KD**
 * Technology allows for greater cooperation, communication, and creativity of groups all over the world (Rheingold 2002). **HW**


 * Completed above - JB - 2. Connections to other learning environments**
 * Sweeping improvements in medical practice, perhaps with nanomedicine leading the way to repair disease at the cellular level. (Pesce, 2000,Ch. 5) **DJ**
 * The noosphere, or collective human intelligence, in the form of the WWW, cellular phone networks, etc., connect and benefit the fabric of mankind as once envisioned by Teilhard. (Pesce, 2000,p. 169) **DJ**
 * As we continue to study Artificial Intelligence, we come to understand more about our own human intelligence, how it comes into being, and how it continues to develop. (Pesce, 2000 Chapter 2) DJ (use page numbers, not chapters) **DJ**


 * Completed above - JB - 3. Increases Collaboration**
 * Technology allows for greater cooperation, communication, and creativity of groups all over the world (Rheingold 2002). **HW**
 * Internet and digital video is another prominent tool to help student by encouraging collaborative work, which can help them to better understanding of the subject. **BN - BL**


 * Completed above - JB - 4. Maximizes Learning**
 * Technology allows for greater self-monitoring. Technology in itself is an action research project for the world. Without the continual reevaluation of tech we will be in a standstill (Rheingold 2002). **HW**
 * You have to enthusiastically engage your students and co-opt them within mutually satisfying instructional mechanisms that allows them to have responsibility and some control over their own educational experiences “Innovative classrooms are abuzz with productive discussion and the excitement of learning” (Lucas, 2002 **MT**).
 * Technology not only helps students learn better, it also helps them to learn better things. For example, internet can help them with their homework and allow them to find out interesting and valuable things outside the classroom. **BN - BL**
 * Performance assessments with emphasis on the components of content, process, and product can utilize multimedia to encourage higher order thinking. (Moersh 2002 p. 92-3) *SA
 * Technology can change the teacher/learner dynamic and empower students to take charge of their own learning. (21st Century Skills Report 2002 pg. 14) *SA

Our children will come to apprehend a different reality than the one we inhabit. . . they will be granted a broader sense of self.” (p. 270) **DJ**
 * This is a greeat quote but I cannot use it without it being cited - JB - 5.Creates Social Network**


 * Completed above - JB - 6. Breaks Down Barriers (social and learning)**
 * Grants them direct access to facts, ideas and primary sources, links images and concepts to sound and film, and motivate students, especially those who would otherwise not be engaged. (Cuban, 2001) **KD**
 * Breaks down barrier between students and adults, which makes learning and interaction more comfortable. “The kids started asking the speakers if they had email addresses and they started emailing them. This broke down the power dynamic that exists between a kid and an adult.” (Tapscott, 1998) **KD**


 * Completed above - JB - 7. New Skills**
 * Technology prepares students for the jobs of the future (Tapscott, 1998) **KD**
 * CITATION PLEASE** *Computer can help students to involve actively in problem solving, analyzing information among each other; however, the most ineffective way of learning is from lecture and books that place student in a the passive role. For example, high school students from inner city, made an electronic yearbook to display for a local children’s museum. The result was positive effect on students such as task engagement and self-confidence. **BN - BL**
 * CITATION PLEASE** *The use of technology in this setting transports educators and their charges into new realms of education and instruction that are richly laded with the possibilities of unlimited inquiry. This is the enthusiastic promise of technology when employed in educational settings. **MT
 * “Rather than reading about physics or math, Resnick wants children (and adults) to participate in an exploration that will feel much like play but will result in the acquisition of a broader base of knowledge—learning by doing.” (Pesce, 2000, p. 96) **DJ
 * A shift from "problem solving" towards "problem finding" (Dede Podcast 2006)**