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When I wrote Blogging with Freire, I was speculating on what that great Brazilian educator and theorist might have made of educational blogging - a concept he never knew, because he died before the Internet and social media came in to common use. Another great theorist who did much to reform the education system around the globe, is the lesser known French educator Celestin Freinet. He died in 1966, when we were only just beginning to realise that computers could be more than mere calculating machines. If he had seen them, what might Freinet have made of digital technology, and what would he have said about social media in education? He certainly believed in using technology to enhance learning.
