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Technology is not a magic pill- with Alec Couros
Alec Couros Discusses Technology is not a magic pill.
So yes, so yeah technology is certainly not a magic pill um, but...... but...... what's
really important about technology is; we have to ah..... closely monitor and understand
what it's doing to us.
We often complain about, you know everyone connecting to devices, and not being aware
of the space here, and not taking ah, care of the face-to-face, and always living in
this online space.
But we have to also understand what's really happening is that there..... you know, there.....
you know many students or teachers or whoever's using there phones, are connecting to a real
person on the other side of that.
Now we've had these changes from; if we think about the steam engine or highways, or even
the light bulb um, a clue in called the light bulb a medium, ah, it.... it was actually
a medium that transformed the way that we collaborate, that we tell stories, that we
work different hours, that we could work into the night, I mean that's not always a great
thing, but the light bulb itself had, ah . incredible transformative properties, in our lives.
So the same things are happening with the iPhone, so technology is not the magic pill,
and but..... bu......... bu..... . but ignoring it will not remove all of the ills, it will
only exasperate and amplify some of ills, if we don't actually take knowledge, and try
to actually determine what technology does to us, to be it's master, we will not only
exasperate an..... and amplify the ills, but we'll forget about all the innovations we
could have had.
And so ultimately don't think of technology as a panacea, as a magic pill, but look closely
to what it's doing, become it's master and ah, look at the innovations, an..... an.....
an..... and, you know draw on those affordances, an.... an..... an..... and take control of
it.