{"id":3544,"date":"2015-07-28T02:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2015-07-28T02:46:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:46:53","slug":"technology-not-an-equalizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2015\/07\/28\/technology-not-an-equalizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology not an equalizer"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tom Friedman has written some of the books I have found most influential. He claimed that technology was one of the major forces in his model of a “flat world”. Others, however, take just the opposite position:<\/p>\n
“The real problem is that technology ultimately amplifies whatever underlying human capacities are already there. So, technology is great for people with a solid education, with great social ties, with influential political power. But, for exactly the people who don’t have it, exactly the people who in theory some of these efforts are trying to address, they’re the ones who can’t make use of the technology in productive ways that many of us enjoy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While I have high hopes for technology in education, I am concerned that the data support this second position.<\/p>\n