If I had a “quote of the day” feature, this would be on it somewhere (italics are mine):
“Our charge was to accept the challenge of an Information Age and acknowledge, at the conceptual as well as at the methodological level, the responsibilities of learning at an epistemic moment when learning itself is the most dramatic medium of that change. Technology, we insist, is not what constitutes the revolutionary nature of this exciting moment. It is, rather, the potential for shared and interactive learning that Tim Berners-Lee and other pioneers of the Internet built into its structure, its organization, its model of governance and sustainability.” (Davidson & Goldberg, 2009, p. 1)
Learning is not an after-market feature of these technologies; it is built in from the start! I think the authors are correct about this. Therefore, calling these technologies “learning technologies” is redundant.
From: Davidson, C. N. & Goldberg, D. T. (2009). The future of learning institutions in a digital age. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
