Technology enabling relationships

Blogging’s been light this week due to a instructional decision to give exams in all three classes on the same day a couple weeks ago and then dealing with the grading fallout, plus having to get an actual print article finished by deadline. Let me ease back into it by sharing this quote by Seymour Papert that I just found, which really sums up my thoughts about teaching and technology:

That was from 1997, but it rings true today as well. It’s easy to forget these days that education is a fundamentally human thing, and at bottom it’s about relationships (and trust). One of the great purposes of technology in education is to enable and enhance those relationships -- not to replace them.

(h/t to The Daily Papert blog)