This post goes on and on, almost as though they want to keep me on the site, as the authors offer a simple message: "EdTech, as we currently know it, is designed to serve the business model of the modern internet, in which the needs of the human being on the other side of the screen are subordinated to the desires of those who would pay for information about that person." Near the end they get around to saying that all this distraction is bad for learning. But maybe we should be rethinking how we design learning, so that it requires less sustained attention and more agility in a rapidly changing environment. There's also a link to a video of a speech from Andrew Liddell.
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