I think technology can overwhelm the past but it cannot erase the past. When you view futuristic films many portray people back in the stone age with no running cars or water and no electricity. If this should happen computers, modern buildings, and most amenities will be useless. But not the pencil.
You can pick up almost anything to write in the dirt. You could use a finger, stick, rock, or a pencil. But you cannot fix a computer (or at least I can't if I am that only person left on the Earth.
Hahaha, we are encouraged to use "technology" in the classroom and I think it is essential. The chalk board, paper, the pencil. All forms of technology. In all seriousness though, a computer is only as efficient as its user. That is why we need to integrate new technologies into the classroom, so the next generation can use these technologies for their betterment and the betterment of society as whole.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how to take this....if the futuristic films are depicting our future then wouldn't it be better off for us all to learn how to make fire (a technology) and how to shoot guns (also a technology).
ReplyDelete