Every day, it seems, one more thing that people do gets moved out of real space and into cyberspace. But now consider the classroom. Just imagine what it would be like if education had always happened on a screen, and then someone came along and invented the classroom. The classroom as a privileged space. But teachers and students alike, I'm suggesting, need to learn how to make better use of this space.
Discussion has to be real discussion.
But of course. From an administrative point of view, that's part of what's wrong with it. The medium of education, from preschool to graduate school, is its deepest content. Consider then that this world of the screen, into which we are rapidly disappearing, is a world where things are disposable, leveled out, abstracted from themselves, and, all too often, trivialized. In order to be everywhere, the screen must be nowhere.