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Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner.
"What's past is prologue," wrote Shakespeare. We must begin to think far more seriously about what our current education is prologue to—and whether that's now enough. No longer is the unenhanced brain the wisest thing on the planet. Students who don't have technology's powerful new capabilities at their command at every turn are not better 21st century humans but lesser ones.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES
The fact that many adults would dispute this statement illustrates how few understand the extent to which the world has changed in our kids' lifetimes, and the role technology now plays. Let me clarify: Technology isn't about new "stuff." It's not about laptops, iPads, cell phones, or the software kids use. It's not about different ways to do what we do now. And it's certainly not about what we should or shouldn't allow kids access to. All those ways of seeing technology are misleading.
Technology, rather, is an extension of our brains; it's a new way of thinking. It's the solution we humans have created to deal with our difficult new context of variability, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. The human mind, as powerful as it is, is no longer powerful enough for our world; the old "tried and true" human capabilities just aren't enough. Technology provides us with the new and enhanced capabilities we need. So technology isn't something we need in addition to mental activity; technology is now part of mental activity. And we need to use it wisely.
+/- 30 years ago I started with Home-Computers, a TRS-80 from Radio Shack with ONLY 8K Memory and a Monochrome Monitor (YOU can laugh...) and I followed the progress of Technology by upgrading, Commodore C-64, Commodore C-128, and so on... Till I got used to PC's, upgrading again + again... Lots of experience behind...
And with PC's and Mac's came ALSO the RISK's, the what WE call NOW Cyber-Security, Attacks and so on...
And as Ana Christina PRATAS says (I agree completely to that): So technology isn't something we need in addition to mental activity; technology is now part of mental activity. And we need to use it wisely.
WE need ALSO to use it in a Community Mentality, thus meaning:
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/learning-basics-of-cyber-security-by-easy-to-follow-steps/
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/cyber-hygiene-ict-hygiene-for-population-education-and-business/
- http://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/beginners-it-security-guide/
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/bring-your-own-device-advantages-dangers-and-risks/
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/cyberhygiene-hygiene-for-ict-in-education-and-business/