Is Technology Making Your Students Stupid?

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No doubt, Nicholas Carr is a napalm-bomb throwing flamethrower (and that is meant as a compliment)! He loves to instigate controversial debates over technology - and in the past, he has made many in the technology community - and in the wider world of businesses and organizations - really come to question the orthodoxy. Witness the debate which ensued from his 2003 publication in the Harvard Business Review with the provocative title "IT Doesn't Matter." Hundreds of articles, thousands of comments, and millions of hits punctuated that debate over the commoditization of information technology (for a good overview, see: Technology Hits a Midlife Bump)

Now, Carr is taking on how we use technology for learning. Read this piece that is sure to spark intense debate that was just published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Again, with the provocative title, "Is Technology Making Your Students Stupid?", Carr takes on how we think, how we do research, how we teach, and the whole notion of "smart" classrooms. Read:

Is Technology Making Your Students Stupid? - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Post your thoughts here on the blog - and when you find articles continuing the debate, send them to me at dwyld.kwu@gmail.com and I'll post them here to update the dialogue...

David

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