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=Understanding Curriculum Studies=

__**Globalization**__ -communication decisively shapes culture
 * Technology was created to help but we have become slaves to technology
 * To counter this we need…
 * Transepochal state: something is changing, something different is emerging
 * Historical rupture: the ability to accept change and implement
 * Myth = technology is like a religion, it can save us…
 * only belief and confidence in ones own ability can affect change
 * Although technology is a tool it is NOT neutral
 * Affects the stituation
 * teacher bias
 * support
 * Machines become the “keeper”, we act as “servo-mechanisms” – McLuhan
 * We experience technology in different ways
 * The symbolic world within technology can become real (hermeneutic)
 * what we see is what we believe
 * We move away from the natural and into the technology
 * Ie: internet space
 * gaming
 * simulations
 * Marx = human destiny is to implode in automated excess
 * can we manage and keep up with an everchanging techno world
 * We have little power alone, but as a collective social body we function (Kochhar-Lindgren)
 * Extremely important!! which leads to hybrid/student centered learning
 * Connections between technology, socialization & $$$
 * Technologies make our social reality (transportation and electronic technologies)
 * Everything is instantaneous (timeless)…internet
 * reliance can be dangerous ie. Blackberry BBM problems
 * Our lives are more driven by possibilities than current realities
 * What social medias say is possible (meiascape)
 * As a result, social media is more responsible for socialization than other past influences (family, church, school, gov’t)
 * culture is mediated and enacted through communication, cultures themselves (Postman, Castells)

__**In using technology in education**__
 * Cannot let technology “lull” us into complacency
 * Use it to “awaken self-reflection, imaginative thinking, and a desire for possibility” – Greene

//My notes are no where near as helpful as the ones above... sorry! Shelagh//
 * change is a fundamental principle of human reality. "Everything flows on and on like a river, without pause, day and night" (Confucius) Love the visual that this makes for me I would like to use this quote in our presentation (as a graphic) if you all agree.
 * Techics as salve/ation - find an image from "Metropolis" (1936)
 * **Technoculture -** what does it mean to you? Table talk
 * **Technosphere -** turn and talk
 * "The question is whether men will dehumanize thremselves through the creaion of a technological environment and its consequent social arrangements" - table talk

Thanks you guys ... this brought me back to those good ol' M & P days a year ago with the theories of McLuhan & the gang which I struggled so much with. I like the imagery though of the following - of our "technological cocoon" ... the "machinic vampirism" of technological capitalism ..and that "humanity s sleepwalking on a tightrope"

I also like the question quoted twice in the article - "What will awaken men from the idiocy of their technological compulsions?"

The whole part about whether we are venturing down a dark path towards our demise or if our only way out of our inevitable self-destruction is our role as educators to to focus on creativity, reflection, imagination, and examine our relationship with technology would be interesting discussion, but has that already been flushed out last year?