1. Dr. Tony O’Driscoll North Carolina State University Welcome to the Era of the Free Range Learner How Web 2.0 and 3Di are Changing the Game in Learning

2. Slide: 2 Learn the Truth about the MatrixLife Goes On As Is Quick Lesson/Test and Disclosure/Disclaimer!

3. Slide: 3 Spheres of Knowledge Questions  Digital Divide  Web 2.0  3D Internet  Free Range Learning

4. Slide: 4 I Come to you Today as a Fellow Educator My Vision My Reality

5. Slide: 5 Michael O’Driscoll Meet another Fellow Educator: My Grandfather

6. Slide: 6 Examining Change in my Grandfather’s Lifetime Transatlantic radio Electricity Radio networks Telephone system Automobiles Air travel Washing machines Television Global monetary system Interstate highway system Highrise buildings Electronic computers Space travel Satellite communications The Internet Global positioning system Cable television systems

7. Slide: 7 Meet My Kids Aidan O’Driscoll Liam O’Driscoll

8. Slide: 8 Examining Change in my Kid’s Lifetime By the year 2010 the codified information base of the world is expected to double every ? 2010

9. Slide: 9 Did You Know?

10. Slide: 10 Future View: When Aidan is 27 and Liam is 24 By 2009 computers will disappear. Visual information will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses or contact lenses. Going to a “website” will mean entering a virtual reality environment. By 2029 we will have billions of nanobots traveling through the capillaries of our brain communicating directly with our biological neurons. Nanobots will take up positions close to very interneuronal connection coming from all of our biological sensory receptors. When we want to experience NON-VIRTUAL reality, the nanobots will just stay still. If we want to experience virtual reality, they will suppress all input coming from the real senses and replace them with the appropriate signals Kurzweil

11. Slide: 11 Explosion of information Hyperinflation of time Accelerated pace of change Constancy in human cognitive ability A Digital Divide of a Different Kind Digital Divide 100y=20,000y

12. Slide: 12 My First Question to My Fellow Educators What can we do to help the next generation cope with the this digital divide of a different kind?

13. Slide: 13 Some Insights from Father Guido Sarducci