ABSTRACT
For centuries many learners have constructed various configurations without an electronic partner. Inventors have always put things together so as to enable a continual dialog with the creations of others. Each person, regardless of age, has become a researcher exploring known and unknown domains, searching over and over again through layers of meanings. The medium is not merely a vehicle to transmit the message, even the cultural message. Culture is not merely the sum total of what we inherit from the parents and social groups; it is what we create with others in the context of the lives, with or without various technologies. The notions of culture have changed, as has the notion of what it is acceptable to examine within a given culture even within a school culture. By collecting, categorizing, and analyzing, Boas thought that ethnographers could witness and accurately document the last remains of vanishing exotic cultures.
