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Sunday, September 03, 2006
While You Were Out: Furnishing Digital Space for a new Decade - Joyce R. Walker & the Praxis Editorial Staff, Karios
Definition of Tool Use: The employment of an unattached environmental object to alter more efficiently the form, position, or condition of another object, another organism, or the user itself. Ndoundou-Hockemba Breur and Vicki Fishlock This definition, taken from a November 2005 article in the online journal, PLos Biology, does not refer to human computer users. It is an article discussing tool use in western gorillas. Readers might well ask what the relationship is between tool-using gorillas and the renovation of the Praxis section of Kairos, which is the subject of this introductory article. Our answer is that we feel that our efforts to “renovate” the Praxis section of Kairos, to make it an increasingly useful resource for teachers and scholars who are interested in human tool users – particularly those who make use of digital tools for various kinds of writing and composition activities – needs to remain actively aware of the dynamic relationships between tools (objects/artifacts), specific digital writing environments, and the individuals and groups who use them. In other words, the most important part of the above quotation is the verb: to alter.
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