Technology, like culture, is a term that varies in time and space, but is more or less recognizable by everyone, regardless of their origins. At its most basic, technology is a man made tool to accomplish a given end more efficiently. This can include language, writing, processes, autmobiles, trains, computers, cranes, buildings, and even things like cameras.
In the classroom the great trend of our age is digital technology. However, digital technology may not be the best option for a given learning expectation or outcome. And this is where this course comes in handy because it will help me develop the right framework from which to approach any technology within a learning setting.
Bates & Poole as well as Chikering and Gamson are good starting points from which to build this framework, and it is one that I hope to be using in the near future to develop a curriculum related to photography, something I really enjoy.
Thanks for visiting, and I’ll see you around the course!
Cheers,
JSV
PS–In case you were wondering about the header–sometimes we just need to leave technology alone, and just explore the world around us. There is much left to be discovered, and much that remains unknown, and though technology may help, sometimes we just have to go on our own into the world to see things for ourselves.