Open AccessOn the hidden curriculum of the mouse click: An anthropologically drama
Author(s) -
Tobias Werler
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
seminar.net
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-4831
DOI - 10.7577/seminar.2476
Subject(s) - curriculum , drama , sign (mathematics) , sociology , extension (predicate logic) , digital media , process (computing) , order (exchange) , digital literacy , cognition , pedagogy , multimedia , computer science , psychology , visual arts , art , world wide web , mathematics , mathematical analysis , neuroscience , programming language , finance , economics , operating system
Any process of education is media based. But the advent of computer based media in the classroom caused a qualitative change. This new type of media serves as a bodily and cognitive extension of man. The aim of the article is to demonstrate educational consequences of these new anthropologically premises. The article discusses the structure and concept of digital communication culture as it denies the existence of spatial distance. The click option of the mouse will be framed as digital communications hidden curriculum. In order to navigate in the digital world of education the texts concludes with that man has to develop sign-literacy to be able to master the iconic turn in education.