Dewey, Chapter 1

1. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.

Life is what you make it. If you use resources in the environment to help succeed, your life opens more avenues of life therefore making it “new.”
The same is true with education. If you use educational and technological resources to help you succeed, the future will be more rewarding and successful. Learning never stops.

2. Continuity of life means continual re-adaptation of the environment to the needs of the living organisms.

In the content of technology today, I feel that this is the opposite here. I feel that technology is ever evolving and living things are forced to adapt to the change of the technology. Technology has made the world more manageable, but the technology is so rapidly changing that is hard for living things to keep up with the advances.

3. Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

This is important with education today. Students need to use on another to bounce ideas off of during assignments. Learning should be more discovery. Therefore communicating with one another gives the students an opportunity to learn a different point of view, but also the ability to debate their points of view. Education is nothing without communication. There are different forms of communicating. For example for the context of this course, collaboratively working on an assignment via the internet would be an effective form of communication. Therefore this form of communication is educative.