Teaching or Technology?—It Is always Teaching First

"In a 2004 essay in The American Historical Review, Mr. (David) Pace, (a history professor at Indiana University at Bloomington) . . . compared college professors to doctors operating on patients without proper training.

'Why is the classroom a place for the uncritical perpetuation of folk traditions, when the operating room is not?" he wrote. "Most of us care passionately about teaching and believe that it is vitally important that students be exposed to the kinds of reasoning and the knowledge of the past that members of our profession have developed. But until very recently, it was believed that no formal training was necessary before historians began thinking about teaching and learning, no examination of the efforts of other scholars, no collective effort to ground knowledge as firmly as possible.'

Notice there's no mention of technology there."

from Jeffrey Young, Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 24, 2010.