All day today, I kept thinking about an essay called "The Pencil Revolution." (You can pretty much guess what it's about.) The author encounters the pencil with all of the ways it (new technology) complicates our lives and creates new societal problems.
In light of this clever essay, there are questions that I would like to see us discuss with students and faculty resistant to the idea that technology is inevitably bound up with what we do.
- What is technology?
- What makes it technology?
I don't think students see writing as technology and I think we should talk about that. It might be a good place to start.
Trish
I hope this link works and takes you to the essay I mentioned:
http://www.johnhanna.us/pdf/PencilRevolution.pdf
2 comments:
Trish, the recent PEW survey indicates just what you have supposed -- that students don't consider the kinds of writing they do outside of school (which heavily uses technology) *as* writing. Here's a link to the report.
Thanks, Cheryl. Interesting information. This is something I might share this with the faculty who teach the teachers.
Trish
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