Between the influence of technology and the intransigence of education there was never really any hope for edtech. At least, that's what Jon Dron seems to be saying here. "Machines try to make automata inside us in their own distorted image," he writes, and "the educational establishment changed us. It took our monkey-paw rainbows of wishes, chewed them up, and spat them back at us in trademarked beige." I'm sympathetic, but I have been warning about incipient commercialism for twenty years or more, and have long given up on the idea of change from within the educational system. But don't blame the machines; they're not the ones converting you to automata, you are, if you're complying, and your managers are, with each new policy they impose. And I'll say it again: we have to build the future the way we want it, not depend on the institutions to change themselves. Because they won't. Look at the list of things Dron says we should do. It's within our power to do them.
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