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2.3.2: Accounts of the impact on pedagogy/andragogy of technology"And these children that you spit onAs they try to change their worldsAre immune to your consultationsThey're quite aware of what they're going through"Changes, David Bowie 1972, RCA RecordsIn this next section I want to explore some of the literature that reports the impact thattechnology has had on pedagogy/andragogy. It is outside the scope of this thesis to debate thenature of these two concepts. What follows are my own definitions of what I mean when I useboth terms as shorthand descriptors for complex ideas and theories.Pedagogy - A dictionary definition of this term has it as a noun meaning the "principles, practiceor profession of teaching" (Hanks, 1989 p. 1131). I would extend this definition to be thescience of teaching that encompasses: the role of the teacher who leads her/his pupil(s) on ajourney to greater knowledge, skills and understanding; the role of the learner who follows theleader by participating in the activities and exercises designed to increase knowledge, skills andunderstanding and; the role of the academic who studies the interactions between the two. Thebasis of these ideas is in the Greek origins of the word which can be assumed to lend the Englishlanguage both the word Paediatrics - the science of 'child' medicine, or, from similar origins,Podiatry, the science of feet. Conflating these two definitions, renders the useful descriptor ofpedagogy as the walking of a child out of ignorance and into new knowledge.Andragogy - The same dictionary (Hanks, 1989) has no entry for this term interestingly.Knowles, the scholar most frequently acknowledged to be the architect of this term, promulgatedit first in 1978 (Knowles, 1978). Dictionary.com has this for its entry, "the methods ortechniques used to teach adults" 38 . Again, to extrapolate from this simple definition I would add38 See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/andragogy?s=t107Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)