Carol Rice (cmatric@hotmail.com)
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:00:25 PST
From: "Carol Rice" <cmatric@hotmail.com> Subject: [ifets] technology causes Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:00:25 PST
Technology causes a release from lower brain functioning - the rote,
lower levels of learning, to the alpha, highly focused use of
information. It allows freedom to associate and infer from past
understandings and stimuli, so that the learner is euphoric and reeling
in cyberspace. The information feeds into the hard-wired recesses of the
brain and allows transference of right brain and left brain functioning
at rapid speeds. Of course, if you are not a woman, you will not
understand this recovery of information. Storage and retrieval of
information is rapid because those presenting their great chunks of
information present them in vast arrays of stimulating and appropriate
visual forms. A greater presence of the information creator is
perceived, and that stimulating more of the senses, so that
the memory is emblazoned on the mind. The personal depths of transfer is
without the limitations of age, space, or bias, causing a fresh
uninhibited experience. Children have been so coralled into black boxes
of fragmented knowledge that real learning must be gleaned as
refuse. Technology clips the cords of fear, and self-censor, becoming
the great equalizer. If we don't use technology to prescribe "more of
the same", it should thrust us into adulthood. Goethe stated that life
is the childhood of eternity.
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