Reply To: ChatGPT et al
I corrected some typos above.
To reiterate, Postman is not arguing against learning how to use technology, only that this is less important than learning about the changes that technology brings about – changes brought about by whom, to whom and for whom.
ICT and/ or Computer Science present(s) an obvious and important opportunity to deal with some of this subject’s matter, but not all. Allied to this is the library’s inquiry-centred instructional programme and curriculum, which I will elaborate on in relation to our academic integrity policy.
Finally, Chomsky’s view touched on above seems to me to cry out for school librarians who are, in Barbara Stripling‘s terms, teachers of sense-making skills (see E&L Memo 1 | Learning to know and understand through inquiry).
