From the latest book on technology in education
“we live in the Computer Age, and you need to get with the program. You are standing in the airport terminal of life, and the jet plane of teaching technology is about to take off. You must make a choice: Do you remain in the terminal, eating the stale vending-machine food of outmoded thinking? Or do you get onto the plane and soar into the stratosphere of computerization, swept along by the jet stream of evolving technology, enjoying the in-flight snack of virtually unlimited information access, secure in the knowledge that if you encounter the turbulence of rapid change, you are holding, in this book, the barf bag of expert guidance?”
Okay, I lied. This isn’t from a book on technology in education, nor even a recent book of any kind, but Dave Barry in Cyberspace © 1996. Didn’t need much changing to work, though. Wouldn’t need much more changing to be a real teaching technology blog post either…
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:51 am
Alex,
For a ‘humourist’ he’s not very funny, is he? Or much of a writer… Still, I suppose it was thirteen years ago…
JZS
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:09 am
Humour was different back then, I guess. A real teaching technology blog post, you say? There’s an idea for me.
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
With all this slagging off of Dave Barry and praise for my alternative definitions, maybe I should have the syndicated humour column*
*That’s my attempt at humour
You just finish your interview questions David, or it’ll be to bed with no blog posts for you