There is a lot of debate on whether the integration of technology distracts learners in classrooms from actually learning. While this may be true, Steven Johnson explains in his YouTube video/scribe/infographic that today’s tools, environment, radical innovation is extraordinarily accessible to those who know how to cultivate it. Johnson’s video also goes back into history and explains where good ideas came from.

Johnson says so powerfully, “the great driver of scientific innovation and technological innovation has been historic increase in connectivity and our ability to reach out and exchange ideas with other people and to borrow other people’s hunches and combine them with our hunches and turn them into something new…this has been the primary engine of creativity over the last 600 or 700 years…”

“Technology has the power to connect us to ideas that are not technology focussed. We are all tinkering with things and that little tidbit one person shares can/might have a profound impact on their learning and their life.  Technology has the power to connect our ideas, improve our practice, and show people” around the world the hunches we have.” (https://hughtheteacher.wordpress.com/)

McDonald, Hugh. Transformation is not about technology but about being able to tell a story. Message posted to https://hughtheteacher.wordpress.com.

RiverheadBooks & Steve Johnson. (September 17, 2010). WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM. Retrieved from March 13, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU