Comments on: The computer is not a good educator https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-computer-is-not-a-good-educator/2008/09/02 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:17:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: ken thompson https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-computer-is-not-a-good-educator/2008/09/02/comment-page-1#comment-302120 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:17:08 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1796#comment-302120 Hi Michael

This is a wake up call for all of us who make assumptions about the positive power of technology.

It makes me think of an excellent but contraversial book “On The Internet” by Hubert Dreyfus, a UC-Berkeley philosophy professor, which I reviewed here a couple of years back – http://www.bioteams.com/2006/03/07/the_internet_and.html#more.

He says this On “Virtual Engagement”

“The development of language, personality, and community are long, complex, and embodied social processes. By “embodied” Dreyfus means inhabiting a body and culturally interacting with other embodied persons through language. Dreyfus suggests that the sense of community evident on the Internet is only a kind of residue left from embodied, linguistic, social processes”.

Keep up the good work – very impressive – I owe you an article on P2P and Bioteams!

Best Regards

KEN

http://www.bioteams.com

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