My thoughts about education technology are similar to my thoughts about technology. I feel excited. I am waiting for the next big thing! What is the new technology going to do? How is it going to be used? How will it change our lives? I am part of the technological determinist camp. I do place a value on old ideologies and cringe at the idea that humans are losing something precious with our adoption of new technologies. I remember discussing with a friend in the late 90’s while we were still in middle school about the new formats of communication and how electronic text base correspondence is the lowest form and in-person remained the most valuable. I am fond of thinking about the social constructionism of technology and, I think, like many
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I seek out new technology on Kickstarter and GoFundMe type sites. The personal EEG monitors for meditation and concentration are looking very interesting. Jacket that have smart insulation, have heaters and are phone chargers seem like a good combination. I look forward to the reviews of CES (Consumer Electronic Show) every year. I was an early adopter of the Fitbit because of watching reviews of wearables from CES. I typically watch a Youtuber that report on CES than any news station. In my opinion the consumer market is the largest guiding force of new technology. However, I can also see that it is not the only factor. Kiwi Wearables, a Canadian company, had a very interesting wearable prototype with more functionality than the Fitbit, but for some reason they lost the race to market and no long have their wearable product for sale. I wonder what happened? Why did this company fail the race to market? Obviously something else happened… Was it just a lack of consumer sales? Was it a funding matter? Was it because the company is based in Canada, not Silicon Valley? These questions, I think, align with the social constructivism …show more content…
A close second is the conversations about my classmates’ workplaces. I truly enjoyed learning about their work worlds and for those that work in our public school system I enjoyed having the teacher’s perspective. I think it is easy to speculate about challenges in the New Brunswick school system, but hearing the stories from these individual was interesting and informative. As I have previously mentioned I enjoy thinking critically about technology and learning the Triadic Model gives guidance to my examinations. I find that thinking about Medium Theory is the hardest mentally for me. I believe it is because biases just are hard to figure
I seek out new technology on Kickstarter and GoFundMe type sites. The personal EEG monitors for meditation and concentration are looking very interesting. Jacket that have smart insulation, have heaters and are phone chargers seem like a good combination. I look forward to the reviews of CES (Consumer Electronic Show) every year. I was an early adopter of the Fitbit because of watching reviews of wearables from CES. I typically watch a Youtuber that report on CES than any news station. In my opinion the consumer market is the largest guiding force of new technology. However, I can also see that it is not the only factor. Kiwi Wearables, a Canadian company, had a very interesting wearable prototype with more functionality than the Fitbit, but for some reason they lost the race to market and no long have their wearable product for sale. I wonder what happened? Why did this company fail the race to market? Obviously something else happened… Was it just a lack of consumer sales? Was it a funding matter? Was it because the company is based in Canada, not Silicon Valley? These questions, I think, align with the social constructivism …show more content…
A close second is the conversations about my classmates’ workplaces. I truly enjoyed learning about their work worlds and for those that work in our public school system I enjoyed having the teacher’s perspective. I think it is easy to speculate about challenges in the New Brunswick school system, but hearing the stories from these individual was interesting and informative. As I have previously mentioned I enjoy thinking critically about technology and learning the Triadic Model gives guidance to my examinations. I find that thinking about Medium Theory is the hardest mentally for me. I believe it is because biases just are hard to figure