Dr. Tony O’DriscollNorth Carolina State University

Welcome to the Era of the Free Range Learner

How Web 2.0 and 3Di are Changing the Game in Learning

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Learn the Truth about the Matrix Life Goes On As Is

Quick Lesson/Test and Disclosure/Disclaimer!

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Spheres of Knowledge

Questions

Digital DivideWeb 2.03D InternetFree Range Learning

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I Come to you Today as a Fellow Educator

My Vision My Reality

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Michael O’Driscoll

Meet another Fellow Educator: My Grandfather

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Examining Change in my Grandfather’s Lifetime

Transatlantic radio

Electricity

Radio networks

Telephone system

Automobiles

Air travel

Washing machines

Television

Global monetary system

Interstate highway system

Highrise buildings

Electronic computers

Space travel

Satellite communications

The Internet

Global positioning system

Cable television systems

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Meet My Kids

Aidan O’Driscoll Liam O’Driscoll

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Examining Change in my Kid’s Lifetime

By the year 2010 the codified information base of the world is expected to double every

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2010

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Did You Know?

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Future View: When Aidan is 27 and Liam is 24

By 2009 computers will disappear. Visual information will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses or contact lenses. Going to a “website” will mean entering a virtual reality environment.

By 2029 we will have billions of nanobots traveling through the capillaries of our brain communicating directly with our biological neurons. Nanobots will take up positions close to very interneuronal connection coming from all of our biological sensory receptors.

When we want to experience NON-VIRTUAL reality, the nanobots will just stay still. If we want to experience virtual reality, they will suppress all input coming from the real senses and replace them with the appropriate signals

Kurzweil

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Explosion of information

Hyperinflation of time

Accelerated pace of change

Constancy in human cognitive ability

A Digital Divide of a Different Kind

DigitalDivide

100y=20,000y

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My First Question to My Fellow Educators

What can we do to help the next generation cope with the this digital divide of a

different kind?

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Some Insights from Father Guido Sarducci