Imagine that, instead of fawning over future-oriented “trends” or the future promise of products – be they virtual reality or “personalized learning” or “flexible seating” or what have you, that education technology actually centered itself on ethical practices – on an ethics of care. And imagine if education’s investors, philanthropists, and practitioners alike committed to addressing, say, economic inequality and racial segregation instead of simply committing to buying more tech.
Source: The Business of ‘Ed-Tech Trends’
My Writing
I chilled in December, resulting in only a couple posts with education relevance:
- Autistic Anxiety and the Ableism of Accommodation
- An Actually Autistic Review of “To Siri with Love”
Older Pieces
Older pieces that I updated:
- The Leader in Me and Compliance Culture
- Mindset Marketing, Behaviorism, and Deficit Ideology
- Navigating Autism Acceptance Month and Autism Myths
- The Segregation of Special
- Rules of Thumb for Human Systems
The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2017)
I highly recommend Audrey Watters The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology. She watches the stories ed-tech tells us and the money it spends. Each of the eleven parts is worth the time.
- Education Technology and Fake News
- Education Technology, Betsy DeVos, and the Innovation Gospel
- Education Technology and the Business of Student Debt
- Education Technology and the Power of Platforms
- The Weaponization of Education Data
- Education’s Online Futures
- Education Technology and the Future of Academic Freedom
- “Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs”
- “Robots Are Coming For Your Children”
- Education Technology and the New Behaviorism
- The Business of “Ed-Tech Trends”
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