{"id":1018,"date":"2012-10-29T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T11:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orfeu.org\/2012\/10\/29\/excellent-post-by-tony-bates-with-some-final-questions-for-further-reflection\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T18:49:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T17:49:43","slug":"tony-bates-should-we-fear-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/tony-bates-should-we-fear-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bates on whether we should fear computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent post by <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108748007763920172029\">Tony Bates<\/a><\/span> with some final questions for further reflection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonybates.ca\/2012\/10\/28\/are-we-right-to-fear-computers-in-education-or-in-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Are we right to fear computers in education \u2013 or in life?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-img\" style=\"float: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonybates.ca\/2012\/10\/28\/are-we-right-to-fear-computers-in-education-or-in-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/eUqFEXLcn7Ky6ks332iRVTNK05Tz8mhlesL-h2lq7oO454OfrioBJEUBrIiQKZ2Moh020aAEx-N32Ol9fIAZpRBTKQCriPJLP1HDp1tajao=w120-h120\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">In this post, I\u2019m going to look at some fun fiction about computers, then raise some questions about whether our fears are rational, or whether we really do need to question much more closely our addiction to technology, especially in education. This is not so much focused on specific new developments such as MOOCs (see: My Summer Paranoia) but on what it is reasonable to expect computers to do in education, and what we should not be trying to do&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112390264067431209914\/posts\/FgVTmBJvMpw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This was posted on Google+<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent post by +Tony Bates with some final questions for further reflection. Are we right to fear computers in education \u2013 or in life? In this post, I\u2019m going to look at some fun fiction about computers, then raise some questions about whether our fears are rational, or whether we really do need to question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-r"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7w8s-gq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}