Editing Tool (section)

==Non-material usage==
By extension, [[concept]]s which support systematic or investigative thought are often referred to as "tools", for example Vanessa Dye refers to "tools of reflection" and "tools to help sharpen your professional practice" for trainee teachers,<ref name=dye>Dye, V. (2011) "Reflection, Reflection, Reflection. I’m thinking all the time, why do I need a theory or model of reflection?", in McGregor, D. and Cartwright, L. (eds.) ''Developing Reflective Practice: A guide for beginning teachers'', Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education, p. 217</ref> illustrating the connection between physical and conceptual tools by quoting the French scientist [[Claude Bernard|Claude Bernaud]]:{{blockquote|we must change [our ideas] when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt [[lancet (surgery)|lancet]] that we have used long enough.<ref name=dye />}} Similarly, a [[decision-making]] process "developed to help women and their partners make confident and informed decisions when planning where to give birth" is described as a "Birth Choice tool":{{blockquote|The tool encourages women to consider out-of-hospital settings where appropriate,<ref>[[National Institute for Health and Care Excellence|National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence]], [https://www.nice.org.uk/sharedlearning/the-birth-choice-tool-from-which The Birth Choice tool from Which?], published March 2016, accessed 11 February 2023</ref>}} and the idea of a "toolkit" is used by the [[International Labour Organization]] to describe a set of processes applicable to improving global [[labour relations]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-06 |title=The ILO Industrial Relations Global Toolkit |url=http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/collective-bargaining-labour-relations/WCMS_843861/lang--en/index.htm |access-date=2023-03-11 |website=www.ilo.org |language=en}}</ref>

A telephone is a communication tool that interfaces between two people engaged in conversation at one level. It also interfaces between each user and the communication network at another level. It is in the domain of media and communications technology that a counter-intuitive aspect of our relationships with our tools first began to gain popular recognition. [[John M. Culkin]] famously said, "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Culkin |first1=John |title=A Schoolman's Guide to Marshall McLuhan |journal=The Saturday Review |date=March 18, 1967 |pages=51–53}}</ref> One set of scholars expanded on this to say: "Humans create inspiring and empowering technologies but also are influenced, augmented, manipulated, and even imprisoned by technology".<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Hurme, Pertti  |author2=Jouhki, Jukka |title=We Shape Our Tools, and Thereafter Our Tools Shape Us |journal=Human Technology |date=2017 |volume=13 |issue=2 |page=145 |doi=10.17011/ht/urn.201711104209 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321443218 |access-date=20 January 2023|doi-access=free }}</ref>