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By: Did You Know? (Shift Happens) Co-Creator Scott McLeod Talks Ed Tech | ISTE Connects - Educational Technology

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[...] on the presentation and requested permission to add some flare to the piece. The resulting video, Did You Know? (Shift Happens), received more than five million hits and inspired three additional versions. Here’s the [...]

By: Karen Janowski

Karen Janowski — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Scott,
Thank you for making it accessible in multi-formats. I, too, show or email it to everyone – teachers, my grad students, administrators, my family, etc.
It’s powerful and makes an impact on all who view it and starts a needed conversation.

By: Scott S. Floyd

Scott S. Floyd — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

You just saved me a lot of time. Thanks so much.

By: Clay

Clay — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Thanks for this. Have you enabled any of the links above to be embedded on other sites?

By: Scott McLeod

Scott McLeod — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Clay, sorry you lost me. What do you mean by “embedded on other sites?” You mean like you can do with YouTube? If so, nope. That might take someone more technologically sophisticated than myself. I’m not a coder… =)

By: Kelly Christopherson

Kelly Christopherson — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Thanks for posting these. I am going to pass them on to my admin group. I sure hope it starts a much needed conversation.

I often wonder, however, if we scare the living shift out of people with this kind of information so, instead of facing it, they are happy to bury their heads and do other things they feel are more important.

I think we need to talk about this, in a multitude of contexts. It is unfortunate that many people that I begin the conversation with are not really interested. They just don’t see it as being “here”! Thank goodness for the blogosphere somedays!
Kelly

By: Scott McLeod

Scott McLeod — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Kelly, maybe your folks are digital refugees: http://tinyurl.com/2xp4vz

Here’s what I know: any school district that refuses to prepare students for their technology-suffused, globally-interconnected future is making a deliberate decision to relegate at least some fraction of its students to second-class citizenry in the new global economy. You would think more educators would feel a moral imperative about this: http://tinyurl.com/glz2m

I know that this message is resonating pretty strongly with the people here with whom I talk (e.g., the Minneapolis Public Schools folks to whom I presented today). Sorry you’re running into obstacles. Let’s chat sometime about some leadership strategies that might help: http://www.scottmcleod.net/contact

By: A Mercer

A Mercer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Here is another view that I heard today on Talk of the Nation http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7002481” — from Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of Cosmopolitanism,professor of philosophy at Princeton University, that I found interesting:

“When people worry about our being taken over by China or India in the coming century, I have to tell them, that they simply don’t have the resources, the intellectual resources, to challenge us for a very long time because they don’t have the kind of university system we have.”

I thought that Prensky was more on point. When I started in education, not that long ago (~10 years), the worry was that students would not have access to computers. Now, it seems like the kids are getting access, and are demanding that we follow them there.

I don’t think it’s a question of paper and pencil vs. computers. I’ve seen lousy, rote computer programs that drill and kill and teach the kids little in the realm of higher-level thinking, and good paper based thinking organizers. What are you asking, what kind of thinking are you setting up, what are you getting, that seems to be the key.

By: Scott McLeod

Scott McLeod — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Alice, I agree with you. I’m not a global alarmist. We’re still far in front of India and China on many fronts and I have a lot of faith in the American people to adapt as necessary. That said, we’re not going to be the world’s only superpower much longer and we need to recognize that other countries are starting to compete with us for global talent. We need to figure out what our new role is in this increasingly-capable global society where we have more and more partners working together in exciting and interesting ventures, hopefully for the good of all. In other words, we’re going to have to get used to sharing the world stage. Some folks feel threatened by that. I think it’s an exciting opportunity to gain and grow.

By: Rich James

Rich James — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

I really want to share these videos but I am reluctant to do so without a clear statement about terms of use. Would you please put a Creative Commons license on them?