Comments on: We don't need to 'get it'

By: Diane Hammond

Diane Hammond — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:45:27 +0000

Personally I don’t “get it” in terms of any technology until I’ve had a chance to see it in action, play with it, think about it, talk about it, see what else I can make it do, and make connections to my own set of circumstances.

This process is part of the “literacy” Toffler talks about in his much quoted line from “Rethinking the Future”:

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

The way to “getting it”?

By: N Lowell

N Lowell — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:40:16 +0000

I’m with The Steven on this one.

“The question you have to ask of any technology is: if you started using it now, would you still be using it in a year? Would your friends? Would your children and students?”

The answers to these questions don’t come fast, easy, or cheap. And they’re not universal. And they’re not immutable.

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:17:00 +0000

> We don’t get it, we’re not suppose to get it, but we need to learn it.

No, we need to get it – if only to the extent of being able to tell the difference between new technologies that are genuinely disruptive, and new technologies that are merely flavours of the technorati moment.

The question you have to ask of any technology is: if you started using it now, would you still be using it in a year? Would your friends? Would your children and students?

By: Dennis Harter

Dennis Harter — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:24:13 +0000

Agreed. Justin brings up the right point: The “responsibility” we have is to teach responsible use.

We play with stuff all the time, exploring, trying to determine the educational worth. It may be something that doesn’t work out, but it may be something we embrace…blogging was this to us once.

By: Justin Medved

Justin Medved — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:30:36 +0000

“Not getting it ” was precicely the reason I got a Facebook account in the first place. When my students told me email was “dead” I knew that if wanted to understand the students I was teaching I should jump into their world. Myspace, facebook and the lot are places kids today feel comfortable and it is one of the many ways they interact with their friends. Our job as educators should be to let them know that when there is an audience there also comes responsibility.

sounds like a good “conversation” waiting to happen.

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To Ning or not to Ning « California Dreamin’ by Rob Darrow — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:02:04 +0000

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