Techno-crazy.
How far do we have to go until we get to the techno-dystopia seen in films such as Wall.E?
In an article “The Year in Education: Seven Innovations Changing the Way the World Learns”, Liz Dwyer talks about the way technology is changing education. One teacher in Atlanta uses Angry Birds to teach physics, and kids checking their phones and social networking sites proves to be a positive step in learning. How long until we rely on technology to do everything and anything? As much as technology is useful, what happened to good old face-to-face interactions with other humans? Of course, every negative comes with a positive. Twitter allows students to interact with class discussions and blogging helps develop writing skills and get kids’ creative juices flowing. Definitely worth a read, but dangerous ground to tread in the long-run, perhaps.
