A swell class, but that only comes as an after thought and not as a first impression. At first my thoughts about this class were bleak and on the borderline of despondency. Honestly, how exciting does "Computers in the Classroom" sound? My first assumptions soon faded after watching a few short videos about how technology is shaping the future of education one click at a time.
I must say, this class turned out to be more interesting than I first expected. The class discussion raises many essential questions about not only technology and education, but about the very essence of what it means to be human. Technolgoy has opened the world to a flood of thoughts and ideas, but how much of the internet is a desperate plea to say somthing, say anything, and call it art or truth? Is technology a blessing, a burden, a damned distraction, or just another form of saying hello? You decide.
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I think the Internet and technology can be all of the above. Teachers can have a real influence on helping students use it responsibly.
ReplyDeleteI would say that technology itself is not evil or a burden it is we ourselves who are to blame for any of its ills. This reminds me of a quote by Robert Pirsig "Technology is blamed for a lot of this loneliness, since the loneliness is certainly associated with the newer technological devices... TV, jets, freeways and so on... but I hope it's been made plain that the real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil." I do agree that many people use it to gather attention, but if they did not do it on the internet I am sure they would find a way to do it elsewhere. I do agree with you saying we ourselves decide because Nietzsche would want us to make our own decisions instead of following the herd mentality.
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