What is the role of technology? George Siemens covers this question briefly in the following presentation slides. One slide states: 'it's just a tool' (I am curious about the conversation that went along with this slide). During training to online teachers, I have advocated a similar point of view, as there can be a contrary (or misleading) notion that technology will do the actual work of teaching. However, I am not so sure our evolving technology is just a tool, like a rock or a stick of chalk. Read Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway. Are intuitive machines, Web 3.0, semantic web.... mutually interactive / a knowledge exchange in such a way that the meaning of 'tool' takes on broader or new meanings? Self and tools are intertwined (interdependent) to such an extent, a "couplings between organism and machine", that we are, as Haraway argues, already cyborgs? Are we reaching a point where teaching and learning are tool dependent, like many other professions, dumb chalk vs. smart chalk?
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