The classroom, once the sacred domain of the teacher, is now a shrine to digitized “learning experiences” whose fundamental assumption is that the newest tool is the best tool.
You remind me of an illustration. In a large lecture hall the professor decided to give his lecture with a video recording. One day he decided to check in on the class. He peaked in to see 342 tape recorders on the desks.
Amen. It was ludicrous to begin with that shoving computers into the classroom was somehow going to make kids “ready” for big tech jobs. Now I fear more that even WiFi and EMF rays inside the cluttered classroom are really frying their brains further. Please read Dissident Teacher here on Substack for hair raising tales of K-12 misusage of AI as well. Even I was shocked.
There is always a teacher who will show pupils an illustration of a different idea of work. Poetry or prose. Certain translations of other languages. These people we remember years later with greater appreciation as we expand our narrow minds. AI can never approach the human nuance. Today AI but tomorrow another gimmick.
The same is the case with Postman's other book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. A culture thus driven is on the edge of a cliff, heading one way towards the end and into the abyss.
You remind me of an illustration. In a large lecture hall the professor decided to give his lecture with a video recording. One day he decided to check in on the class. He peaked in to see 342 tape recorders on the desks.
Amen. It was ludicrous to begin with that shoving computers into the classroom was somehow going to make kids “ready” for big tech jobs. Now I fear more that even WiFi and EMF rays inside the cluttered classroom are really frying their brains further. Please read Dissident Teacher here on Substack for hair raising tales of K-12 misusage of AI as well. Even I was shocked.
There is always a teacher who will show pupils an illustration of a different idea of work. Poetry or prose. Certain translations of other languages. These people we remember years later with greater appreciation as we expand our narrow minds. AI can never approach the human nuance. Today AI but tomorrow another gimmick.
The same is the case with Postman's other book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. A culture thus driven is on the edge of a cliff, heading one way towards the end and into the abyss.