A few years ago if technology was being discussed at a conference you would invariably hear, “It’s not about the technology it’s the pedagogy. The technology is just a tool.” It doesn’t happen as often at conferences anymore but in school workshops and discussions with individual educators it often pops up. I’m not convinced. I think it’s the lizard brain talking. I sit a bit more in the Gary Stager camp on this one. It is about the technology people, and history has been teaching us this lesson for thousands of years.
Think of a cathedral.
A majestic structure, humbling, with impossibly high ceilings encouraging you to lift your thoughts to the heavens. A space can change the way you think, feel and behave.
Now consider these examples (no this is not an Old Spice commercial)…
Fire, the wheel, bronze, iron, paper, the stirrup, gunpowder, movable type, (some guy called Gutenberg?) printing press.
Think of a cathedral.A majestic structure, humbling, with impossibly high ceilings encouraging you to lift your thoughts to the heavens. A space can change the way you think, feel and behave.
Now consider these examples (no this is not an Old Spice commercial)…
Fire, the wheel, bronze, iron, paper, the stirrup, gunpowder, movable type, (some guy called Gutenberg?) printing press.
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