Thursday, February 2, 2017

Digital Candy


A thought provoking blog post from Seth Goden, well worth a read.

Are we making things too simple that we dumb things down? Technology has made it easy just to click without looking deeper. He contends that we may be taking out the curiosity from learning.

"While it's foolish to choose to be stupid, it's cultural suicide to decide that insights, theories and truth don't actually matter. If we don't care to learn more, we won't spend time or resources on knowledge.
We can survive if we eat candy for an entire day, but if we put the greenmarkets out of business along the way, all that's left is candy."

In terms of using technology, have we encouraged our students to click on what is easiest, not what is most useful to learn? Are we  teaching useful technology skills or substituting them for what is simpler and seamless?


Flickr: jamz196 Candy Hearts


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