1. The EACOS Strategy
An Approach to Reinventing our Pedagogical Ecosystem
Tom Haymes, Director of Technology,
Houston Community College, Northwest

2. Rethinking the
Ends of Education
Redefining the Educational Environment
in an age of information abundance

3. Surfing the Wave
The world is changing outside of academia.
Are we riding the wave or being engulfed by it?

4. Rice,
Chess,
and
Moore’s Law
“Digital technologies change
rapidly, but organizations and
skills aren’t keeping pace. As a
result, millions of people are
being left behind. Their
incomes and jobs are being
destroyed, leaving them worse
off in absolute purchasing power
than before the digital
revolution.”
-Brynjolfsson and McAfee, Race
Against the Machine
Source: http://bit.ly/XDU6kF

5. Outsourcing Ourselves
Daniel Pink (and many others):
Technology and the evolution of work
Are We Teaching the for the Wrong Era?

6. Daniel Pink’s
Three Questions
1.Can someone overseas
do it cheaper?
2.Can a computer do it
faster?
3.Is what I’m offering in
demand in an age of
abundance?
http://youtu.be/syo6ecgclR0

7. Who Are the Best Chess Players?
“The winner was revealed to be not a
grandmaster with a state-of-the-art PC but
a pair of amateur American chess players
using three computers at the same time.
Their skill at manipulating and “coaching”
their computers to look very deeply into
positions effectively counteracted the
superior chess understanding of their
grandmaster opponents and the greater
computational power of other participants.
Weak human + machine +”better process
was superior to a strong computer alone
and, more remarkably, superior to a strong
human + machine + inferior process.”
- Gary Kasparov
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/
2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-
computer/

8. Pink’s Six Skills
1)Design: Moving beyond
function to engage the
senses
2)Story: Narrative added to
products and services - not
just argument
3)Symphony - Adding
invention and the big
picture
4)Empathy - Going beyond
logic and engaging emotion
and intuition
5)Play - Bringing humor and light-heartedness to your work
6)Meaning - The purpose is the journey, internal motivation

9. Adaptation
Our technological environment is shifting
Do we adapt or die out? It all begins in the classroom

10. The First Step: Rethinking Our
Perceptions of Technology
This is not a technology question
It is a societal (and therefore pedagogical) question

11. Wicked
Problems
1) Rethink what it means to
teach and reinvent everything
about teaching
2) Reimagine online learning
3)Allow failure to be as
powerful a learning mode as
success
4) Make innovation part of
the learning ethic
5)Preserve digital expressions
of our culture and knowledge - 2013 NMC Horizon Project Summit

12. The EACOS Model For Reinventing
Our Pedagogical Environments
Five Strategies for Redefining Pedagogical Models

13. 1. Understand
the Ends of
what you are
trying to
accomplish

14. Means vs. Ends
Unless you are building it, a technology is never an End,
it is only ever a Means to an End

16. 2. Think of technology as an
Augmentation of your teaching

17. “We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where
hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human ‘feel for a
situation’ usefully coexist with powerful concepts, streamlined
technology and notation, sophisticated methods, and high-
powered electronic aids.”
- Douglas Engelbart, 1962

18. 3. Creatively bridge barriers using
technology solutions to approach the
problem from a different perspective

19. “The new age fairly glitters with opportunity but it is as
unkind to the slow of foot as it is to the rigid of mind”
- Daniel Pink

20. Be Task Reflective: Ruben Puentedura’s SAMR model

21. 4. Always be on the lookout
for technology Opportunities

22. “The computer is simply an instrument
whose music is ideas.”
- Alan Kay

23. 5. Take a Systemic approach to
technology

24. A fundamental problem: We tend to view
technologies in isolation from ends, the
human element, and other technologies.

25. “Intellectual life and cultural development thrive in
environments which make it easy to abstract, excerpt,
borrow, and remix.”
- John Naughton

26. EACOS
1. Focus on Ends
2. Use Technology to
Augment
3. Engage in Creative
problem-solving
4. Pursue Opportunities
5.Think Systemically

27. Final
Thoughts
1. The End should always
take precedence over the
Means
2. You cannot stand still
3. The outside world should
drive your pedagogical
strategies, not technology

28. What Now?
• This presentation is at:
http://www.slideshare.net/
haymest
• New Media Seminar
Resources at: http://
learning.hccs.edu/faculty/
tom.haymes/new-media-
seminar
• Contact Me:
tom.haymes@hccs.edu

29. Works Cited
• Brynjolfsson, Erik; McAfee, Andrew,
Race Against the Machine (Digital Frontier
Press, 2011).
• Engelbart, Douglas, “Augmenting Human
Intellect” at http://stanford.io/3iwwIg
• Naughton, John, What You Rea!y Need to
Know About the Internet (London:
Querecus, 2012)
• New Media Consortium, The Horizon
Report Higher-Ed Edition 2013, http://
bit.ly/wPZ75N
• New Media Consortium, “The Future of
Education,” http://bit.ly/13oa4WV
• Pink, Daniel, A Whole New Mind(New
York: Penguin, 2006)
• Puentedura, Ruben, “The SAMR Model:
Six Exemplars” at http://bit.ly/Oiq9nq