Do New Tools = New Learning?
Clarence Fisher,
Aug 12, 2010
I think new tools result in new learning because learning is based on experience and every tool provides its own experience. But it's not a straight line one-to-one relationship. There's a lot of overlap between experiences - most software has the same interfaces, much of the content looks the same whether on a PC or an iPad. But some new tools lead you into new experiences by giving you new capacities - blogging software to publish your thoughts worldwide, photosoftware to let you express yourself, audio and video software to let you explore multimedia, social networks to help you form and join communities. "What is not important is the individual software dependent skill. Click here. Then do this. Then that. Etc.," says Clarence Fisher in this post. "New tools are important. New tools give us access to information we wouldn't have without them. New tools give our students the ability to share, to network and learn in ways they wouldn't have without them."
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