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Stephen Downes

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More from the ed tech angst currently flowing through the community. Here's Neil Selwyn's talk on digital education in times of climate crisis saying "the dominant forms of ed tech are based around excess." Here's the summary from Anne-Marie Scott, "that we currently live in a period of edtech excess and that this is fueling increasing disadvantage and climate crisis" as well as "ways in which current forms of edtech are actively harmful beyond their climate impact, debasing and degrading education." George Veletsianos looks at the content of what we are teaching, asking "How could we help people understand that climate change will impact them?" Matthias Melcher draws the useful distinction between "simple, low tech tools that are really tools" as opposed to "patronizing prostheses (and) all sorts of spectacular, shiny, oversized toys."

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