Interview: Sherry Turkle on Technology in the College Classroom

by Jeffrey Young Sherry Turkle Says There’s a Wrong Way to Flip a Classroom. Sherry Turkle has gone from gracing the cover of Wired magazine for her boosterish views of technology, to a leading tech skeptic, worried about how our smartphones and always-on culture are short-circuiting human communication. In her most recent book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, she argues that in our rush for the thrill of texts and tweets, we’re forgetting how to relate to each other in person. Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying the impact of technology on society, says the […]