Integration of Educational Technology - Week 1 - Overview

Week 1 - Overview

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Watch the following videos then answer ONE of the discussion questions with a brief paragraph. After you post your answer then you will see others from the class. You should also respond to a colleague. 

https://youtu.be/uZ73ZsBkcus (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

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https://youtu.be/w-tFdreZB94 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Q1. List and describe the instructional strategies you noticed in the videos.

Q2.  Why include this in our first class session? What purpose does it serve? 

Q3. What's realistic about these videos? What's not? Why?

Q3. What's realistic about these videos? What's not? Why?

Though it appears magical, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" (Arthur C. Clarke).  And, of course, much of the way we live & work right now would appear magical to someone back in 1999.  It's very realistic as technological advances over the next several years will be converging, recombinant & disruptive, not to mention exponentially accelerating.  Holographic augmentations are already becoming possibilities using the correct augmented (AR) & mixed reality (MR) head-mounted displays (HMDs), for example Meta (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. & HoloLens (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..  So, perhape, that might be on thing that is unrealistic: we see now viewing devices.  Then again, I know that folks at MIT are working on contact lenses (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. that will make many other interfaces fairly obsolete.

I really don't believe there will need for a physical space in which the classroom or the office exists.  As the other technologies we see demonstrated in these videos converge with virtual reality (VR), the need to actually physically be anywhere specific will be superfluous & considered old-fashioned.  Education & work spaces will exist in a the Cloud, relieving the planets resources & enhancing our ability to interact more effectively & efficiently.

Yeah Microsoft!  Speaking of the devil - check out this new MR developer kit (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. from MS!

Thanks for sharing!  I got some serious goose-bumps!  Love it!