What Excellent Questions!

I have been reading the recent posts in response to the Dreyfus book, and I have been very impressed with the kinds of questions you are asking. We will talk about them in more detail in class on Friday, after we have discussed the last chapter of the book in which Dreyfus discusses (finally) how the internet can be integrated into learning and into life without overwhelming us with irrelevancies or displacing important and meaningful dimensions of our lives. It turns out that, much like Borgmann, Dreyfus is enthusiastic about the possibility of a reform of technology. Believe it or not, he even broadcasts his class lectures on the net for his students and gives them the option of not attending class. He claims that most of them come to class anyway, which does tend to support some of his ideas about our need for "presence" as opposed to "telepresence" in education.