Postman Ch. 8-11 & Twitter

The more I read on this topic, the more I feel responsible to help transform these new technologies into meaningful and insightful tools. Something that struck me in Postman's argument about television was when he said, "like its forefather, the telegraph, television needs to move fragments of information, not to collect and organize them (p.136)." This is exactly how tools such as blogging, Facebook, and Twitter are the opposite of television. The internet allows us all to be creators, collectors, organizers of information. This is a very powerful tool that needs to be harnessed and taught to students. If left on their own, these technologies could become tools to simply "move fragments of information" like Postman claims the television does. Although this feels somewhat redundant of my post yesterday, today's reading reinforced this idea threefold for me. I need to help my students see the importance of using these tools in meaningful and thought provoking ways.