Disruptive Technologies
A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology or product in the market.
: WikipediaWesley Fryer over at “Speed of Creativity” has an interesting entry in his blog about ‘disruptive technologies’. Seems kind of apt, given the title of the upcoming CAL 07 conference. He says:I outline seven different reasons educators should consider being constructively, digitally disruptive in 2007. These include 1) Strong reasons for changing our prevalent educational paradigm, 2) Change requires disruption to the status quo, 3) Digital technologies can provide differentated means to engage each learner in the educational process, 4) Emphasizing collaborative learning and technologies which promote collaboration, 5) Enhanced personal digital competencies carry over to professional practices, 6) Modeling lifetime/lifelong learning activities, 7) Designing instructional interactions (lessons) which follow the revised model of Bloom’s Taxonomy. [The podcast]You know, sometimes I know how he feels. I get quite frustrated in my classroom at times. There are so many exciting and new things happening in ICT and I’m forced, still, to push my students through some antiquated coursework that requires 500,000,000 screenshots and a tick box of skills that drives both them and me crazy half the time… blogs, podcasting, wikis, etc. don’t get a look in! Well, that’s not quite true - thankfully, they are mentioned in the new review of ICT for the future curriculum in the changeover to 14-19 education and so on - and not before time! What can I say!
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