Educational technologies and the synecdochic fallacy

For a few minutes the other day I thought that I had invented a new kind of fallacy or, at least, a great term to describe it. Disappointingly, a quick search revealed that it was not only an old idea but one that has been independently invented at least twice before (Berry Martin, 1974; Weinstock, 1981). Here is its definition from Weinstock (1981): a synecdochic fallacy is a deceptive,…