- Jun 2018
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n his famous essay, 'The Relationship Revolution', Michael Schrage (2001) claims that to say the internet 'is about "information" is a bit like saying that "cooking" is about oven temperatures -it's technically accurate but fundamentally untrue'. The real revolution that the internet has brought, he says, is not an 'information revolution' but rather a 'relationship revolution'
This is related to tomorrow's reading from the US Dept. of Ed's website. We are definitely teaching students to engage in technology very differently from the past. The new technology gap exists in passively using tech to view friends' posts vs. actively using tech to create and learn.
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On one hand, these tools enable us to do new things, think in new ways, express new kinds of meanings, establish new kinds of relationships and be new kinds of people. On the other hand, they also prevent us from doing other things, of thinking in other ways, of having other kinds of relationships and of being other kinds of people. In other words, all tools bring with them different kinds of affordances and constraints.
I'm thinking a lot about how technology affords us with opportunities and simultaneously constrains our behaviors or abilities in the context of the classroom. As my school transitions to 1:1, I'm thinking about the ways students can engage with their devices at home to complete some of the work we used to do together in class and how that will afford us more time in class for other activities. But, I'm also considering what some of the constraints might be. Will the use of these digital technologies in the classroom impede students' interpersonal connections?
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. As McLuhan puts it: 'Any extension, whether of skin, hand, or foot, affects the whole psychic and social complex
I find this idea very interesting and something I hadn't thought of before. We often take for granted or don't notice the various technologies that we use in our daily lives, but if we consider the vast array of technologies that mediate our existence, it's quite profound. As McLuhan notes, all behavior is mediated and "fundamentally change[s] the way we experience and think about space and time..."
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