Kalmbach and his technology overload

The article that really grabbed my attention this week was the one in which Kalmbach suggested various ways in which today we can relate our works within computers to the past with typewriters. It is interesting to take into account how technology gives a cover to work that may need further review. For instance as Kalmbach stated about glossy and "glitter" of a page and how it tends to "dazzle" a teacher into skipping over mistakes on purpose is a wonderful example of how technology and computers has become more of an excuse rather than a useful tool for expiditing what is the necessary wrong.
When discussing the experiments done by Wood and Freeman about the use of typewriters by children in class, it was also interesting to view the positive stats that came from those. But were the drastic stats only due to the lack of technology in that day and age or were they meerly obsolete because of their (the students) desire to learn? Regardless of the reason, the students performed in and out of the classroom on a tool that was incapable of hiding or fabricating mistakes.
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