Dear Organlearners,
Sanford Pearlman <san731@ix.netcom.com> writes in LO15755
> For technology to be effective or for any type of change to take hold,
> it must remove current barriers to creation.
Sandy, P Coggin who had much to do with technology and education, wrote in
1979 (pergamon Press) the book "Education for the future: the case for
radical change". In this book he magnificently argues that technology is
of little and even ill use to a person if that person's creativity is not
developed sufficiently.
Technology can be of help to remove current barriers, but technology
itself cannot ever begin or sustain such a removal. The removal has to
begin and end within the creative mind.
Removing barriers or making bridges have very much to do with one of the
seven essentialities of creativity, namely wholeness
("associativity-monadicity"). Holism is a synthesis of wholeness +
emergence. Each of the essentialities can be synthesised with emergence to
give an interesting viewpoint. For example, Koestler's bijectivism =
"connect-beget" + emergence
It is much more important to know why barriers have to removed than to
know how technology can help in doing so. Barriers (a broken whole)
prevent emergences and cause immergences like an inpaired in any of the
other six essentialities. To be able to use exsiting technology
effectively or to innovate new technology for barriers not yet brifged, we
have to learn, think and act by emergences. But if the wholeness is messed
up and we do not know it, then we cnnot cause emergences and prevent
immergences.
Come to my country South Africa and see for yourself how little and
incorrectly technology is used in it. To use technology without emergent
thinking is to let the sorcerer's apprentice have a go at it.
Best wishes
--At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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