I really appreciate her clarity. This is the paragraph that really stuck with me: "Education has an enormous role to play in this conversation. But that is not going to happen until we extend our idea of pressing problems beyond anxiety about the sustainability of our current financial models and until we stop expecting technology to "transform" our situation. The real forces that define the horizons for our faculty and our students are not Facebook, iPads, or MOOCs. The real forces are the silos that disciplines create and inhabit, the departmental structures that make the organization of knowledge an organization of power, the knowledge fragmentation that is an inevitable consequence, and the extravagant overvaluation of an increasingly narrow expertise. At the moment, our use of technology in higher education serves to perpetuate this world rather than to challenge or transform it. Had we the courage and the imagination to address these issues, we would indeed have a shot at using technology in ways that would do justice to its formidable potential." Best, Rhea Rhea Nowak Associate Professor of Art SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, NY (607) 436-2827 From: <Greenberg>, Jim <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Reply-To: Teaching Breakfast List <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 12:33 PM To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Technology Innovation and Improvisation: Rhetoric and Reality TBers, For those of you interested in the intersection of technology and education, I recommend Elizabeth Coleman's recent article in EDUCAUSE Review. It can be found here: http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/technology-innovation-and-improvisation-rhetoric-and-reality [cid:782A063F-0047-48DB-A62E-14DEE23D2BEF] Mr. James B. Greenberg Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center Milne Library SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, New York 13820 email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> phone: 607-436-2701 fax: 607-436-3677 Twitter: greenbjb "Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"