During the session Richard posted a number of questions. Some you need the visuals to think about but here are some questions and responses that worked well with text. I hope I've captured it all, and keep adding to the list!
1. What is your earliest memory of an educational technoloyg?
- Frances Bell: teacher had a set of fabric pockets with exercise cards and you had a real sense of achievement as you put your card in a pocket and move on to the next one.
- George Siemens: school in Mexico and couldn't afford paper. Each child had a slate and chalk.
- George Siemens): The PET ...as a computer
- cindys: DEC Rainbow
- George Siemens: writing tablet
- jcrom: Blackboard
- Don McIntosh: Farm Radio Forum
- Bob Sleik: Tandy 1000 with 8 inch floppy disk
- Doug Symington: Atari ST for term papers for me re computers
- DeirdreB: French class having recorded tapes
- @injenuity: I have a letter from my grandmother describing telecourses from the 1960's
- cindys: filmstrips
- amanda: New Math coloured blocks
- Doug Symington: might have had some audio tapes for languages in k-12 but-- and *do* remember felt boards now mentioned....
- amanda - slides
- cindy: I still use a feltboard with preschoolers
- dnorman: a wooden "shoe" with laces that we used in preschool to learn how to tie our own shoes...
- cindy: my 30 year old son had that chalk board in Mexico. They still find paper expensive
- Bob Sleik: film projectors - being the library resouce student trained on how to use it.
- Doug Symington: Dewey
- Alec Couros: schwier
- amanda: Tony Bates
- @injenuity: prokofy
- George Siemens: Merril
- Sylvia Currie: Marlene Scardamalia
- George Siemens: Bereiter
- len: Richard Lewis
- DeirdreB: Siemens
- Doug Symington: Zygotsky
- George Siemens: cdn: Anderson
- cindys: katy campbell
- George Siemens: Garrison
- George Siemens: Abrami
- Doug Symington: McLuhan
- cindys: nancy white
- Sylvia Currie: etienne wenger
- Alec Couros: jonassen
- George Siemens: not ed tech, but great writer: Kegan
- francesbell: etienne wenger
- Don McIntosh: Mager
- DaveC: Neil Postman
- Alec Couros: did anyone say seymour papert?
- George Siemens: and Alec, and Wiley
- Richard Schwier: the open course we're seeing now, such as Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course
- Sylvia Currie: browsers
- amanda: WWW/Internet
- George Siemens: the film projector
- Alec Couros: gopher
- George Siemens: the radio
- amanda: email
- Treva Emter - HPSD : computers became more affordable for schools
- DeirdreB: invention of the internet
- DaveC: I'd say the ballpoint pen.
- Treva Emter - HPSD : open source materials
- francesbell: literacy being value for working classes
- Don McIntosh: Television in the 50's - the answer to all our educational problems
- DeirdreB: Web2.0
- George Siemens: public schooling for all
- Treva Emter - HPSD : collaborative work using the web
- Alec Couros: any form of quick duplication (press, photocopy, etc.)
- dnorman: digital natives (George Siemens: great answer DNorman)
- len: single concept 8mm movie cartridge: .-)
- Doug Symington: non-keyboard IO devices for computers (i.e., tablets and interactive whiteboards)
- amanda: social networks
- George Siemens: great answer DNorman
- Don McIntosh: The availability of the PC.
- Sylvia Currie: group communication, not just one-to-one
- Don McIntosh: Skinner's machines
- Alec Couros: Laser Discs ... they should have been something, we have a ton downstairs we can't play
- Bob Sleik: the original laser disks (the size of full size records
- people lens (This one was fun! Match the faces with names)
- researchers lens
- organizational lens
- "thinkers" in ICT lens
- publication lens
- panacea lens
- social lens
- theoretical lens
- national lens