Sherry+Turkle


 * Alone Together: A Meditation on the Future of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century**


 * //Mobile technology is like a phantom limb--when we are without it, we miss it like an appendage//
 * //Connectivity offers the illusion of connection without true companionship//
 * //We are substituting connection for conversation//
 * //Educational institutions should make the distinction between conversation and "connection" to students//
 * //Technology allows us to hide from one another//
 * //In continual contact, we are alone together//
 * //Steven Colbert: "Don't these little tweets/sips add up to a conversation or to a larger understanding of each other?" Turkle says NO.//
 * //Controlling the message--we can do this through technology but not face to face//
 * //Teenagers are exhausted by constantly "presenting" themsleves//
 * //We no longer have a clear separation between adolescence and adulthood--b/c we are so connected//
 * //"I share, therefore I am." : I need to validate my feeling by sharing it before I affirm it in my own mind. We use people to buttress our fragile sense of self//
 * //Ability to be alone is not being cultivated: If we don't teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely. Loneliness is failed solitude.//
 * //"Just because we grew up with the internet, we assume that the internet is all grown up" Turkle's favorite line from her book....//