Brandy wrote...After having Gary Stager as a professor last semester, I was also taught that technology is essentially anything that is assisting you to fulfill a need. Given this definition, I am also using student pair groupings to encourage students to work together with a common mind and goal to "solve" the "problems" I give them.
Gary said...
What leads you to this conclusion?
Last semester our EDC 664 class had a discussion about whether technology could be something other than an electronic-like item. During our class discussion, we came to reason that although a spoken/written language is not electronic and does not require power as our stereotypical definition of technology may, it is still a tool we use to assist us in communication.
If we view technology as more than just a plug-in machine, we can see on a broader scale that technology is simply a tool to produce more/better/more efficient successes.
Computers, automobiles, GPS systems, word processors, editing software, etc. all allow us to take what we already do (research, commute, navigate, script, revise) and make it better and more efficient.
Language has done that very same thing for us but has not required we insert batteries or charge when the battery becomes low. To this, I conclude that technologies can be defined another way... as a means to change the way we do certain things. Our outcome has improved (we hope) with the use of this "technology."
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