I have lately been wondering why I am so lacking in enthusiasm for my new job. I am part of a small team setting up a brand new university in the middle of Turkey where no expense has been spared. Day 1 we were all given AppleMacs as were the students. Well and good. The cry everywhere is One Laptop Per Child, isn’t it? Yet something is profoundly wrong and reading an article by the brilliant educationalist Neil Postman recently, I found my feelings suddenly crystallising in his words. He calls himself a Luddite and doesn’t not use Information Technology at all but he is not in principle...
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