Campus Technology Forum 2012

After a decade of tracking the evolution of emerging technology as part of the New Media Consortium’s globally focused Horizon Project, Larry Johnson, the project’s founder and visionary leader, has spent years reflecting on how we think about technology and how that influences our ability to use and deploy it creatively. In this session he will use the lens of family and family ties to show how our perspectives on technology are formed, what we can use that insight for, and how it shapes our ability to make decisions. Our perspectives on technology and what is possible are largely determined by when we were born, rather than our training and experience with the current tools and options available to us.¬ Indeed, the very notion of what constitutes technology is something that profoundly changes over time. From his research, it is clear that the events of the world around us—things we collectively experience within a generation—are hugely significant influences in the ways we think about learning, about work, and even in the way we play. These forces are at work everywhere in the world and in every sector of education.