Todays’ digital dictionaries, that allow us to speak words to see spellings, listen to pronunciations, and even practice pronunciations are a vast improvement over paper dictionaries for those who want to be more efficient in learning the words that entertain them and make them more accurate communicators.
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Once we recognize that education is a technology, we must recognize that like all technologies it is not neutral. How it is organized and how students (and teachers and others) experience it exerts real and powerful influences on how humans interact with information and thus with how their brains work.
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator