Chris Dede's session

I notice that Paul has chickened out of dealing with this and I noticed there's a recording on ELI site. Take an hour out and listen to this session - it knocked everyone sideways for an hour or so today. As CD said he wasn't attempting to do any crystal gazing, but it really consolidated many of the discussions that have been happening in the informal spaces. A lot about the digital divide. Strangely it was quite pessimistic and 'dark'. How do we get from here to where we know we need to be?
I've got pages, and pages of notes, but I'll save you. Here are one or two...

• Is the real world crumbling around the users of MUVEs (Multi User Virtual Environments)? Are they too immersive and disconnected?
• Check out River City the MUVE developed by CD
• A lot on ubiquitous computing: wireless devices have 60% of power and 10% of cost of PCs from a couple of years ago and enable the 3As (any time, etc) and instant in hand mobility.
• Animistic environments! Objects have souls - useful if you remove the theology?
• Augmented reality especially when you add GPS to mobile devices

The big, dark message is 'We're not teaching the way they're learning' - that's a problem if 'they' means neomillennial learner, but for us us it's even darker because we can't define 'they' so simply.
Good quote comparing HE to cemeteries (listen).
I saw a couple of times today, here included, that technology supported research was a carrot to get faculty interested in technology supported learning.
Professional Development - the need to UNlearn. Faculty need to take a step back to reflect and see significance of all this stuff. How is that going to happen?