Evolution of digital technologies.

Thinking Technologically, if we look at the last decade, it has been deeply influenced by the omnipresence of smartphones into our daily lives and radically changed our habits.

If I am a ten-year-old, the way I see the world is not mediated by the point of reference an adult has that that it was once different. It just is.

How do we position ourselves as it relates to the full breadth and diversity of digital devices and practices?

What happens when we attempt to capture the changing digital landscape and its effect on our lives?

How does this impact on the validity and relevance of our strategic intent as educators, and as learners ourselves?

What is the potential contribution a focus on Thinking Technologically would have?

How will learning be experienced, specifically as a cognitive experience?

What I’m really interested in is how changing our description of thinking and minds can offer us new and better prescriptions — that is, what we should do to improve our thinking.

Simply changing how we view whatever system our thinking is trying to describe can allow us to take huge steps in manipulating those systems to our advantage.

Thinking is not what it used to be. It has become more connected and more complex and more augmented, more fractured and atomised. I think that’s a good thing provided we remind ourselves we are still getting our bearings when it comes to thinking  especially when it is thinking about a human or machines doing it.

We can take baby-scautious teps in the directions of implementation, but let’s take bold and risk tolerant runs in the space of thinking about it. It might just be what saves us from ourselves.