📑 The Ed-Tech Imaginary
As we imagine a different path forward for teaching and learning, perhaps we can devise a carrier bag theory of ed-tech, if you will. Indeed, as I hope I’ve shown you this morning, so much of the ed-tech imaginary is wrapped up in narratives about the Hero, the Weapon, the Machine, the Behavior, the Action, the Disruption. And it’s so striking because education should be a practice of care, not conquest. Knowledge as a bag that sustains a community, not as a cudgel. Imagine that.
In a keynote for ICLS Conference, Audrey Watters traces a narrative from Frankenstein, through to Skinner. She wonders about the possibilities of a different ed-tech imaginary.