Technology as Teacher: Digital Media and the Re-Schooling of Everyday Life
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https://doi.org/10.65828/fs8fhj31Abstract
Drawing on examples from my phenomenological inquiries of teachers and students using new media technologies, I propose that software is our new hidden curriculum, imperceptibly re-mediating our perceptions and gestures and thereby re-schooling both adults and children in new modalities of knowing, doing, and being in the world. The truth is that there are no things, only physiognomies. (Merleau-Ponty, 1963/1983: p168)
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