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Why learn about technology and online learning?<\/h2>\r\nIn November 2001, an exciting $700 million-dollar project began in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: The public school system would be modernized and upgraded. Part of the renovation would take place in Emerson School, a 120-year-old building\u2014one of the first public schools built in the city. Slated to be removed and replaced with Smart Boards where four old, green chalkboards still hung on several classroom walls.\r\n\r\nWhen the contractors removed the green chalkboards, though, they made an amazing discovery: they found a set of blackboards hanging behind the green chalkboards that contained writings and drawing of students and teachers in 1917. On one board, for instance, were notes in a treble clef, apparently from a music class. On another blackboard were illustrations of Thanksgiving pilgrims. On still another was a multiplication wheel\u2014a teaching device of yesteryear that the then-current school employees did not understand. The renovators also found old report cards, as well as a newspaper clipping advertising \u201cWomen\u2019s shoes, $3.00!\u201d\r\n\r\nTeacher Sherry Read reflected on the meaning of this discovery: \u201cI think they [the teachers in 1917] left them there on purpose to send a message to us, to say, \u2018This is what was going on in our time.\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\nToday, the formerly hidden chalkboards are protected with acrylic glass. Controls are also in place for light and temperature exposure. With this care, the chalkboards could last another one hundred years. To see photographs of the find, visit Oklahoma\u2019s Hidden Chalkboards of Yesteryear<\/a>.\r\n\r\n\"Three<\/a>Indeed, 1917 was another era of classroom teaching. Just imagine if the students and teachers from that day were to visit your college classrooms today. How much\u00a0culture shock would they experience? Do you think they would be able to catch on to your level of technology skill and awareness?\r\n\r\nClearly, the technological differences between 1917 and now are staggering. Today\u00a0we have online classes, blended learning, and flipped classrooms, MOOCs, micro-lectures, and mobile learning. We have blogs, wikis, podcasts, clickers, cloud computing, virtual reality, and gaming. And we have laptops, tablets, smartphones, 3D printing, eye tracking, and LCD touch boards. Then there's the explosion of social networking explosion\u2014Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Google+\u2014not to mention the invention of\u00a0Apple, Microsoft, and the Internet, and, well, online dating!\r\n\r\nWhat's next, and how soon will it come?","rendered":"

Why learn about technology and online learning?<\/h2>\n

In November 2001, an exciting $700 million-dollar project began in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: The public school system would be modernized and upgraded. Part of the renovation would take place in Emerson School, a 120-year-old building\u2014one of the first public schools built in the city. Slated to be removed and replaced with Smart Boards where four old, green chalkboards still hung on several classroom walls.<\/p>\n

When the contractors removed the green chalkboards, though, they made an amazing discovery: they found a set of blackboards hanging behind the green chalkboards that contained writings and drawing of students and teachers in 1917. On one board, for instance, were notes in a treble clef, apparently from a music class. On another blackboard were illustrations of Thanksgiving pilgrims. On still another was a multiplication wheel\u2014a teaching device of yesteryear that the then-current school employees did not understand. The renovators also found old report cards, as well as a newspaper clipping advertising \u201cWomen\u2019s shoes, $3.00!\u201d<\/p>\n

Teacher Sherry Read reflected on the meaning of this discovery: \u201cI think they [the teachers in 1917] left them there on purpose to send a message to us, to say, \u2018This is what was going on in our time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, the formerly hidden chalkboards are protected with acrylic glass. Controls are also in place for light and temperature exposure. With this care, the chalkboards could last another one hundred years. To see photographs of the find, visit Oklahoma\u2019s Hidden Chalkboards of Yesteryear<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/a>Indeed, 1917 was another era of classroom teaching. Just imagine if the students and teachers from that day were to visit your college classrooms today. How much\u00a0culture shock would they experience? Do you think they would be able to catch on to your level of technology skill and awareness?<\/p>\n

Clearly, the technological differences between 1917 and now are staggering. Today\u00a0we have online classes, blended learning, and flipped classrooms, MOOCs, micro-lectures, and mobile learning. We have blogs, wikis, podcasts, clickers, cloud computing, virtual reality, and gaming. And we have laptops, tablets, smartphones, 3D printing, eye tracking, and LCD touch boards. Then there’s the explosion of social networking explosion\u2014Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Google+\u2014not to mention the invention of\u00a0Apple, Microsoft, and the Internet, and, well, online dating!<\/p>\n

What’s next, and how soon will it come?<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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