‘That’s not technology. That’s what I do.’
April 8, 2008A quote that supports the idea that Technology is what we call something we are aware of using.
Based on qualitative research - one-to-one interviews with students conducted over two years - Jisc has built up a picture of how students are using IT to manage their social lives. Most are confident and competent IT users, but they are too often unaware of how they could apply their skills to enhance their studies. Phipps recalls interviewing a first-year female arts undergraduate who professed absolute ignorance of e-learning or web applications. "She was updating her blog at an internet cafĂ© and then started integrating photos from her Flickr site on to the blog. At the end of it she said, ‘That’s not technology. That’s what I do.’ "
