Please click on WEEK5.HTML . Give me a break. This is even more true of the technology we are promoting in the classroom. How about those Mac Plus, or SE or Classic machines. Sure these all still could work perfectly well, but the way technology works under capitalism suggests this to be irrelevent to the manufactured desires that the software and hardware companies must perpetuate in their ever expanding quests for profit and market share.
Sex sells computers as well as beer.
Anyway, these are some of the things that occurred to me as I read the essays this week. I look forward to everyone else's imput and feedback. One common thread that seemed to emerge in this week's independent readings is an interest in Distance Learning . I am still left wondering if these reports are of the front-runners in a shifting paradigm. As I read through the articles, I found there were many resources with two or three basic themes.