Document Type
Section VIII Article
Abstract
Americans have long believed that "Yankee ingenuity" can be applied, to good result, in most any circumstance. We have faith in our ability to study a problem and fashion apparatus to address it, be it machine or program. Such a propensity has contributed, no doubt, to the unparalleled achievements in science and technology that we have seen in this country, and to the quality of life that we have come to enjoy. But there is some consensus that this advance has not been an unmitigated success. For it seems that there are always social consequences, however subtle, to technological progress and that these consequences occasionally have a dark side. One has only to look to the Industrial Revolution of the last century and the biotechnology advances since World War II to find numerous examples of social problems (and some remedies), and moral and ethical dilemmas (but fewer answers), appearing in the wake of technological breakthroughs.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
1
Issue
1
First Page
146
Last Page
148
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1990 North Central Regional Educational Laboratory and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Waggoner, Michael
(1990)
"Section VIII: Technology and Its Implications for Iowa Rural Education [Waggoner],"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 54.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol1/iss1/54
