Objects and Learning
by smithtk ~ April 19th, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized, media.They keep coming back, whereever I turn, whatever I read, whatever I see or touch - objects, things, inventions, manifestations…physical things created by other people. As tools, objects can be desribed as containing a part of culture, of having embedded knowledge, a power to teach just because they exist and fit the hand or please the eye or iron a shirt or open a door. Sherry Turkle wrote a fascinating account of peoples’ attachment to objects, The Inner History of Devices. I’m still processing this - for now, here’s a video about objects.
