This page and its sub-pages provide some activities that will help you to understand some of the main ideas behind soft and hard technologies for learning.

The main activities will be:

Reflection

thinking about the ways that learning technologies in our own lives make life hard: where they constrain, where they liberate, where they are burdensome

Discussion 

exploring the ways we might build learning spaces more effectively by more actively making technologies soft or hard, as well as to be more aware of how much or little they do so we can  research the elephants in the room more effectively.

Playing 

designing a soft technology (or two) 

Doing

implement a change to a technology in practice, employing principles of