Is the tool an obstacle or an opportunity?
[Move your mouse to the right side of the cartoon to see the 3rd cell]
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?
Click the image below to see this full sized on ToonDoo or here for flickr.
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Background
March 24th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Thanks for the post. This is the exact conversation I’ve been having with my school principal. We’re almost there, I think?
July 13th, 2009 at 9:20 am
[...] We can still watch an old black and white movie, but we don’t go out and buy a black & white tv that limits our ability to see what is available to us in colour. Yet we place unnecessary limits on what can happen in our schools and classrooms, “we need to learn how to educate in this media-scape” [...]