Your First Life: Technology

and Other Important Things

Keynote address
Richard A. Schwier
TLt 2008
Educational Communications and Technology
May 15, 2008
University of Saskatchewan
FRED
Eudaimonia
Photocredit: Gerard Girbes Berges (2008)
About who we are as
educators
Tell vivid stories

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 Photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid laughingsquid.com.

Having someone listen is just as important

as having something to say
Reconsider learning outcomes and
who owns them
•How to predict consequences
•How to read
•How to distinguish truth from fiction
•How to empathize
•How to be creative
•How to communicate clearly
•How to learn
•How to stay healthy
•How to value yourself
•How to live meaningfully
-Stephen Downes
Being a big stupid failure is important
Visioning isn’t new-age crap
It actually works
Competition isn't always bad, but it
lurks in the strangest places
About who we are
as people
Play is more important than work
Be selfish and narcissistic
If something keeps depressing you when
you look at it and you can't do anything
about it, turn your gaze
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http://www.globalincidentmap.com/
 About who we are as
Educational Technologists
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 We aren't green, but
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We aren’t green, but we can be greenish
http://www.storyofstuff.com/

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http://www.storyofstuff.com/
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Intentionally break your own

patterns of thinking
Slow down
It’s not a race
 From Dag to Denise to me to you

o preserve the silence within

mid all the noise.
o remain open and quiet,
moist humus in the fertile darkness
here the rain falls and the grain ripens
o matter how many tramp across the parade
n whirling dust
nder an arid sky.
Dag Hammerskjöld
Find constancy in a sea of change
We are part of a movement,
not part of a search party