Canadian Teachers' Federation Let's be realistic. Machines are an integral feature of modern life. From bread machines to bank machines, they now serve us where people once did. But when the ATM machine denies us access on a long holiday weekend, we will be banking that our networks of family and friends have survived this techno-explosion.
Life means people, and people mean friendship, support, sustenance and love.
Dr. Franklin has spent a lifetime working for peace and social justice. This experience, combined with her professional life as an experimental physicist and her many years as a member of the Science Council of Canada, have given her an especially valuable perspective on the impact of science and technology on our lives. In concert with many others who have studied and written on the subject, he warns that scientific discoveries can be used both to empower us and to enslave us. This is precisely our dilemma when we consider the appropriate place of new technologies in education. Advocates for their use are convinced that individual empowerment and control will be the legacy of such change.