Relevant, Open & Engaging:A Vision for Technology Education

at an Urban Metropolitan University

Joe McCarthy22 February 2009

Science & Technology:Empowering & Delightful

"To facilitate informed public participation in technological decision making, to decrease the alienation too many citizens feel from our technological society, and for the sheer joy that comes from knowing a thing well, we need better science education, a superior communication of its powers and delights.”

- Carl Sagan

Glocalization in Education

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

- Albert Einstein

Think globally; learn, work & contribute locally.

Predisposition toward Relevance

A navigation device for helping pilots steer ocean-going ships through Puget Sound's waterways safely into port under difficult Northwest weather conditions.Larry Wear & Charles Bryan

Human-computer interaction design innovations for making blind people’s lives easier.Kristen Shinohara & Josh Tenenberg

Student leaders of UWT’s Grey Hat Group assembled a panel of experts and raised $10K to put on a 2-day computer security conference that educated people about ways to protect themselves from identity theft.Mary Jane Kelly & Amalia Annest

Regional Relevance

South Puget Sound

Urban Relevance (& Renewal)

Digital Cities

Climate on the Wall

NEWworkCITY

Trash | Track

CoCollage

http://bit.ly/digital_cities_6

Predisposition to Openness

Promoting Co-Promotion

The importance of overcoming academics’ aversion to “shameless self-promotion”

Industry Fellows program Math & Science Leadership program

Open Source Grading

http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/crowdsourcing-grading-revisited-public-gets-act

Engagement

Engagement thruEducation + Entrepreneurship

txteagle

Mobile Apps in the U.S. forHealth & Civic Engagement

http://www.text4baby.org/ http://www.citysourced.com/

The Glocalization of the Internet

http://foursquare.com/venue/48620

Location-Based Games for Good

http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/location-based-social-good/

http://www.causeworld.com

A Vision for Technology Educationat an Urban Metropolitan University• Relevance– A leader in the innovative use of technology for

urban & regional problems

• Openness– A model of openness and transparency

• Engagement– Continuous exploration of new ways to engage

our urban metropolitan community

Relevant, Open & Engaging:A Vision for Technology Education

at an Urban Metropolitan University

Joe McCarthyhttp://interrelativity.com/joehttp://gumption.typepad.comhttp://twitter.com/gumption

http://www.slideshare.net/gumption

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Backup

A Brief History of Joe (part 1)

A Brief History of Joe (part 2)

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“The Catalogue”Chris Oakley

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