Tyndale, The Magazine | Volume 1 - Issue 2

Leading Ethically where Education and Technology Meet

When it comes to technology “public education is in catch-up mode,” says Beverley Muir, principal of Humberwood Downs Junior Middle Academy in Toronto. One of the most ubiquitous forms of technology is the cell phone. These small devices can cause huge distractions in a classroom setting...

 
Tyndale Students in Tech-based business

Josiah Shelley, in his second year of Tyndale’s business administration program, runs Up2date Communications. He has developed an application that allows businesses, schools and organizations to mass text their customers on their mobile phones.

 

Tyndale University College & Seminary conducted a survey in the summer of 2011 to see how Ontario churches are interacting with technology, and how they see it changing the church. Three hundred and sixty-eight churches replied to the survey.
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A Pastor's Perspective

“Things are changing so rapidly we lose the ability to be oriented,” says Tim Day, a Tyndale alumnus and lead pastor of The Meeting House in Oakville, Ontario. “With technology we can push something good to the extreme so that it actually becomes bad.”

 

“Technology can be a wonderful gift from God,” says Dr. Kevin Livingston, Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Tyndale. “It can be used to share the message and connect the church, but it’s not an unmixed blessing.” Dr. Livingston often uses PowerPoint presentations and the Internet to show different worship styles around the world.