One of the classes I am teaching this session has a technology focus. I am teaching students to refurbish donated computers by installing Linux on them, and then making them functional for specific use scenarios. Some of these computers will stay in the school, some will go home with students, and some will go to other families who need computers. Because of this project, I have been thinking a lot about the issues raised in this assignment.
In the process of making room for the computers we received for this project, I dug through all the existing technology in our school. It is amazing what schools fail to get rid of in due time. The oldest item I found was a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk, circa 1980's! There were a bunch of large camera batteries, parallel printer cables, huge scanners, and other technological artifacts. We have made a recycle pile and a pile that could feed into a technology museum, which may be an interesting project at some point.
My full AnthroTech can be found here.
About Me
- Eric Matthes
- I have been teaching for many years. I am participating in the MAT program to resolve a fun bureaucratic conflict between the NY State Education Department and Alaska's rigid certification laws.
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