I find it interesting that you can turn on the news, on any given day, and find someone talking about technology and how it is taking away different job sectors. Yet, in today’s economy the government is trying to create more jobs for the unemployed. On page 51, paragraph 2, Postman explains a portion of Frederick W. Taylor’s book The Principles of Scientific Management by showing us what a human worker may lack. Human labor contains: judgment that cannot be trusted, ambiguity, and subjectivity amongst others. For this reason he says human work is of no worth.
I feel that as teachers, and in general workers, we must strive to show that we have technology at our fingertips and are using it appropriately. Instead of the teacher’s work being of no worth, we must “find its meaning in machinery and technique” (p. 52). It should be our goal to use this technology to better impact the lives of our students and those that come into our path. Do you feel that you have observed technology being put to positive use in the day to day teaching setting; or do you believe that the “technology” has taken over the role of the teacher within the school setting?
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