COMM 1100U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sherry Turkle, Word Processor, Blackboard
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Tools we use to change the way we think: There"s no erasing the chalkboard: turkle, sherry. Construction crew uncovered old chalkboards from 1917 under newly built walls. Blackboards and green chalkboards are relics of a bygone era. When you think of education you imagine a blackboard. By the end of the 1990s, whiteboards outsold chalkboards by a margin of up to four to one. Even digital whiteboards outsold chalkboards by the turn of the millennium. Chalkboards remain so important because of what they represent: the idea of stable knowledge in a rapidly changing digital age. Chalkboards still remind us of a time when it was possible to believe that everything a child needed to know was containable on a flat surface. Represent a view of knowledge as finite, something to be transmitted and receive. How computers change the way we think:
