Audrey Watters makes a point I think is correct: "I think that 'which technology' is the wrong question... because this focus on gadgets and apps and algorithms... always insures that the problems and solutions in education are framed almost exclusively in terms of the technology itself." So what should we focus on? "The goal, broadly speaking, is to learn how to be human, how to be part of humanity. The goal is to create the conditions -- in a lesson, in a classroom, in a school, in a system -- where students and teachers alike can practice what matters." I might quibble, but let's accept that. Can we say this, then? "What matters is not 'using technology'." But that takes us back to the 'wrong question'. We don't want to define 'what matters' in terms of whether or not we use technology - and indeed, 'what matters' is often going to involve technology. Not edtech, necessarily - but I needed a car to learn to drive, a camera to learn photography, a scanning electron microscope to learn biochemistry... and artificial intelligence to learn programming. These are all ways I am 'part of humanity'. Because humanity uses technology. Via Dagmar Monett.
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