It is always tempting to define ourselves by the tools we have – or lack – rather than by we do with them. Yes, a writing implement is necessary to teach writing, and a computer is required to teach programming, but a poor teacher can make worthless the best of these tools, and a [...]
I appreciate Mike Rose’s comment at Britanica’s new Brave New Classroom 2.0 Forum where he happens to summarize my views nicely:
When discussing electronic technology in the classroom, it’s easy to fall into two traps: the ahistorical trap and the binary trap. We tend to think of electronic technology – as the forum [...]