Future design careers
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- ethanfink0
We live in societies based on technologies, and Marshall McLuhan is consistently proven correct with his Laws of Media:
every new medium:
1. extends a human property (the car extends the foot);
2. obsolesces the previous medium by turning it into a sport or a form of art (the automobile turns horses and carriages into sports);
3. retrieves a much older medium that was obsolesced before (the automobile brings back the shining armour of the chevalier);
4. flips or reverses its properties into the opposite effect when pushed to its limits (the automobile, when there are too many of them, create traffic jams, that is total paralysis).
Every new technology has these four effects on all of us, including learning technologies. If you dont understand the effects of the technologies that we use, how can you understand their pedagogical implications?