This was at The Chronicle, so it'll probably be popping up on a lot of sites.
With tongue firmly in cheek, I offer this view about technology. Rule #1 of technology use (even before "what pedagogical purpose does it serve?") is that you have to be stronger than it is: mind over matter. If you're weak, it senses your weakness and refuses to work. A video clip won't play? A program freezes while the class sits and stares at you with amusement? You know what I'm talking about.
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I DO know. And it makes me SO mad because, to quote Williams Carlos Williams, "so much depends upon" it.
Yep!
Funny, though, I've never once had a book refuse to open! Is that because I'm strong, or because it's a deliberately cooperative technology?
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