Obsolete, Emerging, and Future Technologies

Rhonda GibsonEDUC 7108

Dr. PrattNovember 2010

Obsolete Technology: The Television

Going, Going, Going, Going, Obsolete!!

Obsolete Technolog

y: The Television

I used to be part of many classrooms and media

centers. Now, I am being replaced with an Emerging Technology. Today, I can be found in few classrooms but

in many supply closets.

McLuhan’s Tetrad

Enhances Obsoletes

Reverses Retrieves

Medium

Television TetradEnhances:

•collaborative learning•presentations•color•motivation•organization

Obsoletes:

• writing on a plain black surface with

a dusty material

Reverses

•blackboard•slate

Retrieves

•Visual presentations

Interview One: Mrs. Kirkland1. Please state your name and position.

2. How familiar are you with the Interwrite Boards and InterWrite Workspace.

3. What are the benefits of this emerging technology?

4. How has the Interwrite Boards improved your instruction?

5. Why is the InterWrite Board better than televisions, computers, and overheads in the classroom?

Interview Two: Mrs. Finkley1. Please state your name and position.

2. How familiar are you with the Interwrite Boards and InterWrite Workspace.

3. What are the benefits of this emerging technology?

4. How has the Interwrite Boards improved your instruction?

5. Why is the InterWrite Board better than televisions, computers, and overheads in the classroom?

Six Forces of Emerging Technology

Evolutionary Technology

Rhymes of History

Science Fiction

Disruptive Technology

Increasing Returns

Red Queens

Evolutionary Technology: InterWrite Boards

I am far better than a television.

I am interactive!

InterWrite Board Tetrad

Enhances:

Interactive WhiteboardsCollaborative learningMotivation

Organization

ObsoletesCable

Television

Reverses: Filmstrip machines

Slide MachinesOverhead projectors

Retrieves

Educational movies

Interactive websitesImagesVirtual

Field Trips

Rhymes of History:

Record players

Filmstrips

Slide projectors.

Science Fiction

Disruptive Technology

Record players

1877

Slide Projector1962

FilmstripsUsed widely in the classrooms in the

1970’s

Television in the classroom

1980’s

Interactive WhiteboardsEarly 1990’s

Increasing Returns:

Red Queens:

InterWrite board Smartboards and Promethean Boards

Addressing the Digital Divide:

Future of InterWrite Boards

References:Thornburg, D. (2009). Disruptive technology. Laureate Education, Inc. Retrieved from http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com

Thornburg, D. (2008). Evolutionary technologies. [vodcast] Retrieved from: http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com

Soloway, E. (n.d.). The digital divide: Leveling the playing field [vodcast] Retrieved from: http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com

Thornburg, D. (2008a). An amazingly incomplete emerging technologies bibliography. Lake Barrington, IL: Thornburg Center for Space Exploration