Smashing CellPhones
Here’s an article from the Times on this side of the Atlantic that’s related to the last post: New Class(room) War: Teacher vs. Technology Let me state for the record that I don’t care for the tone of this article, but it does make some good points:
Perhaps there’s a nicer way to put it. “The baby boomers seem to see technology as information and communication,” said Prof. Michael Bugeja, director of the journalism school at Iowa State University and the author of “Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age.” “Their offspring and the emerging generation seem to see the same devices as entertainment and socializing.”
Overall I can’t get around the idea that we’re arguing rather than trying to solve, and that much of the argument is based on the idea that things were fine before there was technology, i.e. that the problem is Technology. The problem is people. Eddie Izzard pretty much sums it up:
