1. Battle lines:
Is Academia at War
with Technology?
Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins
Purdue TLT 2009

2. Arm yourself!

3. 78% of the incoming class of 2009 will
have had internet access their entire
K-12 career.
98% of the incoming class of 2012 will have
had internet access their entire K-12
career.
*Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics

4. We must STOP talking about
Technology!
We MUST start talking about what
technology can DO!
And what it’s already DONE!

5. Technology has made
teaching/learning
more difficult.
AGREE DISAGREE

6. Let’s go
back in
time!

8. October 25
1415 c.e.

10. The french

11. = 1,200 Mounted Knights
*Reenactment

12. = 10,000 Dismounted
Knights

13. = 10,000 Crossbowmen

14. The british

15. = 1,000 Dismounted
Knights

16. = 5,000 Longbowmen

17. = 20,000
= 5,900

18. I’m noble!
I’m
impenetrable!
I’m poncy!

19. I’m a
commoner.
I’m
outnumbered.
I’m
desperate.

20. The battle

21. 


22. There are so
many of
them!!!

23. FIRE!!!

25. You cannot
shoot me!!!

26. DOH!!!

27. CHARGE!!!

29. Run away!!!

30. ouch…

31. I’ve fallen and
I can’t get up!

32. HaHa! We have
you know Frenchy
pig-dogs!

33. but I’m a noble… 

34. SO?!

35. aaaarrrrggggg…
STAB!!

36. 90 minutes
later

37. YEAH!!! WE WON!!!!!

38. All ur kni-gits r belong to us
But what do we do with all
these French hostages?

39. Kill
them!!!

41. VS
7,000-10,000 112
Dead Dead

42. Oh the humanity!!!!

44. How have universities
reacted
to technology adoption
decisions?
TOO
AGILE
SLOWLY
ADOPTION

45. How is the conflict
between
institutional learning
and social learning
like
Agincourt?

46. Wikipedia is
blocked on all
computers in the
Warren Hills
NO!!
Regional School
District.
Seattle Times November 21, 2007

47. Regarding laptops in
the classroom:
I tell my students that
it is as impolite as it
would be for them to
sit in class reading a
newspaper.
Chronicle of Higher Ed Forums Mar
16 2009

48. Blogs
don’t
count!!
“Today’s senior faculty
members look at blogs
the way a previous
generation of academics
looked at television —
as a guilty, tawdry
pleasure that should
not be talked about in
respectable circles.”
Drezner 2005

53. We have
diplomas!
and clip art!

54. British food
again?!

55. So let’s go back to
Agincourt!

56. The Battle of
Social Learning
vs Institutional
learning

57. 2OO9

60. VS
Academia may underestimate
the power of the web

61. You’re just a
commoner!
Patooey!

62. I only engage
with people who
are my equal!

63. I engage with
anyone who
contributes!

64. 

Bad economy
Changes in knowledge production
Drops in tenured positions
Increased pressure to reduce costs

65. Webizens begin to build
their own institutions of
knowledge and knowledge
production

66. We blog!
We twitter!
We make
videos!

67. We research!

68. We peer review!
You didn’t
reference me!
Rejected!
I disagree with
your regression
analysis!

69. We peer review!
I edited your
Wikipedia
page!
I commented
on your blog!

70. You aren’t
experts. You’re
not making
“real”
knowledge.

71. SO?!

72. This is the
pivotal moment!
Will we recreate
the past?

73. No laptops
in the
classroom!
CHARGE!!!
Block
Wikipedia!

74. Stop
Online Facespacing
degrees don’t and
count! Mybooking!

75. Wait! Maybe if we use
the web too we could
do really innovative
things.
Ouch!

77. We need to schedule a
meeting to form a committee
to talk about how to get out
this mud

78. Want some help?

79. All ur toobz r belong to us
But what do we do with all
these old academics?

80. No worries. They‘ll just
fade away.

81. Or do we learn
from past
mistakes?

82. Does your campus feel more…
or

83. LOL! ROFL! OMG! ROFLMAO!
TTFN Dood!
But what do we do with all
these old academics?

84. We take off a bit of our armor
We learn to find a middle ground

85. TL w/T gets better
when we stop
focusing on the tools
and start focusing on
the uses/affordances

86. Online journals allow anyone to read
I B in ur journalz readin’ ur
research!

87. Academics engage with non-academics
And the bartender
says ‘Why the long
face?’!

88. Information is layered everywhere

89. Intellectual curiosity is satisfied NOW!
Everywhere! All the time!

90. Networks of people share what
they know!

91. How do we do
it?

92. Don’t assume
knowledge can
only come from
“vetted” sources

93. Justify ALL
choices, even
the traditional
ones

94. Be willing to try
new things.
Learn from
students.

95. Learn more about
how people
already use the
tool, learn
similar topics.

96. This doesn’t have to be a battle

97. Look for tweets from
TLTFrenchy and TLTBrit
during the conference!
Sarah “Intellagirl”
Robbins
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