We would do well to shuffle between them with graceful mental ease. Perhaps to best appreciate educational technology, one must have a mind capable of rejoicing in the creative opportunities presented when the technology fails. To best appreciate technology, perhaps one must have a mercurial mind, able to leap between aesthetic and technological mindsets, between poetry and computers. Poets have long dabbled with word color. Laser printers can literalize their pursuit.
Poets traditionally are masters of metaphor.
Graphic user interfaces are simply the metaphors of designers who commercially impose their metaphors on us. Not at all. Metaphors are for poets, she insisted. She intended to become a programmer. He is enrolled at Boise State University in a doctoral program focused on educational technology.