[Updated version]

This has been floating around in my head for a while, but Scott McLeod’s ‘Banning Student Computers’ slide and Sonya’s ‘The New Teacher’ inspired me to finally express it visually.
The last time he was in town, Alan November spoke of just how silly it would be to ban pencils like we do cell phones because someone passed a nasty note… It isn’t really about the tools now, is it?

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2 comments on “Is the tool an obstacle or an opportunity?

  1. Thanks for the post. This is the exact conversation I’ve been having with my school principal. We’re almost there, I think?

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