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Technology and Learning: Enabling or Subverting: What technology deserves significant school attention, and who should decide.
 * __Chapter 12__**

Position 1: technology enables learning Position 2: Technology can subvert learning.

=Dialectic Analysis: a common definition of technology is science applied to a specific purpose. W. Brian Arthur (2009) notes that is not only serves human purposes but can also direct and control our lives - including, presumably, addictive tendencies and controlling our behaviors. That tension, a servant or a master give pause to many who criticize technology in schools.=

=Using one statement as a thesis and the other as antithesis, construct a possible synthesis of these positions.=