Comments on: Wires & Lights in a Box http://www.sonikcycle.com/syndicate/index.php/archive/wires-lights-in-a-box/ Where the syndics of Sonikcycle muse. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:29:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Steve Whitaker http://www.sonikcycle.com/syndicate/index.php/archive/wires-lights-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Steve Whitaker Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:07:38 +0000 http://www.sonikcycle.com/syndicate/index.php/archive/wires-lights-in-a-box/#comment-46 Also, check this out: <a HREF="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=murrow" rel="nofollow">Murrow search</a> at the Archive. Also, check this out:

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]]> By: Steve Whitaker http://www.sonikcycle.com/syndicate/index.php/archive/wires-lights-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Steve Whitaker Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:06:12 +0000 http://www.sonikcycle.com/syndicate/index.php/archive/wires-lights-in-a-box/#comment-45 You know, I had a similar reaction in watching the film. I also wanted to take up smoking. But I didn't make the leap to edtech, and I appreciate the thoughts you express above. I suppose it's true of any tool/technology - hence arguments about the inherent goodness or badness or neutrality of, say, guns. So what do we need to do to make the leap from tool to agent? In other words, when do we stop "working" a device and begin to "use" it? What do we as educators need to do in order to help our students? You know, I had a similar reaction in watching the film. I also wanted to take up smoking.

But I didn’t make the leap to edtech, and I appreciate the thoughts you express above. I suppose it’s true of any tool/technology – hence arguments about the inherent goodness or badness or neutrality of, say, guns.

So what do we need to do to make the leap from tool to agent? In other words, when do we stop “working” a device and begin to “use” it? What do we as educators need to do in order to help our students?

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