+++This post started out on my phone and has been trapped in the back end of my database for the weekend – I’ll come back to it when I have time+++
Friday, I took in this really interesting lecture by Meyrowitz, as well as a small panel afterward, who talked about how reality and it’s perception can change greatly by how it’s archived (I would also think that it would change according to why as well). This got me thinking, what do we really want to go back to?
Should the machine now help us forget as well? The second question was only briefly touched on, and the first was explored in many ways by looking at communications theory and the like. But asking these questions from the point of an educator, that is something a little different.
Our students are actively archiving themselves and many don’t even think twice about privacy (likely because identity protection wasn’t well covered at school), especially online. These kids are like the people of the sixteenth century, before the private home and the people of the old Soviet block (or so we would be lead to believe). Not only do the accept the surveys of others, but the actively record their own lives (often online via the social network of the day) as well. Knowing this, how or why are we having such a hard time with technology integration and with the establishment of eportfolios?
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