Chapter 6

  This chapter made me realize that, in my opinion, technology in education is moving in the same direction as technology in medicine did.  On page 98 Postman states, doctors would lose their ability to lose their ability to conduct skillful examinations and rely more on machinery than on their own experience and insight.  For me, I feel like this is a trap I am personally trying not to fall into.  Our school has taken on numerous technological means of assessing our students.  A computerized test here, there, and everywhere is what I am essentially giving.  I am trying to find a balance between utilizing all of these results, with the anecdotal assessments I have used for so many years.  I want to make sure that the personal knowledge I gain from my everyday experiences should be more useful than the technology being used.  Do you find that you are becoming overwhelmed by the tools you are being given to use, where we are at risk of becoming, like the doctors, more distanced from your students?