Another we sure did a ways back! A two-parter on innovation… as it turns out, we find this to be a muchly-abused word! I’m almost positive that is so!

Coming at you asynchronously from the other side of the Supercollider #ednontech

We can’t live under… for too much longer! Or can we? Tune in to find out! #ednontech

OK, so I’ll add a bit more here!

This episode and the previous were recorded at the same time!

It was from within personal circumstances that have subsequently changed, and in the midst of a college semester that is now more than a week over!

As such, I’ll say that to my past self: Past Self, for all the strain you may be experiencing or feeling… in a few weeks, it’s all gonna be fine! More than fine, honestly!

You’re going to have a low-key, dry holiday in Fort Mac! You’re going to miss your kids! You’re going to send many esoteric Instagram DM’s, many to individuals and/or entities you’ve only ever known through social media apps and, in some cases, the Righteous Power of Punk RockTM !

And… as to the newly refurbished only slightly worn and torn personal education infrastructure (aka PEI)? I have two words that are going to revolutionize the way you look at your personal time to professional time ratio (PT/PT-RTM):

Microsoft. Outlook.

Except for personal usage!

Your mind is blown, right? I can tell, sitting here in my apartment in Fort McMurray, northern Alberta, Canada… that your mind is blown!

More on this radical experiment in the next post!

Too often the assumption is made that student-teachers and teachers need to know how to use computer technology without first asking why they need to know and importantly, what they need to know…

Wild, M. (1996). Technology refusal: Rationalising the failure of student and beginning teachers to use computers. British Journal of Educational Technology, 27(2), 134-143. Chicago

Education is the area of enterprise that suffers the most from the baby and bath-water syndrome.  (adapted from John Dewey, 1920) 

Electronic (E) Learning (L), Management (M), Needs (N) 

E before the L/M/N: 

Technology is the answer; what is the question? 

N Before E/L/M: 

Is your project really necessary? 

M Before E/L/N:  

It’s not what you do, but the way you do it—that’s what gets results. 

L Before M, N, or E: 

Students + Teachers + Materials = Knowledge Sharing and Skills Mastery

Romiszowski, A. J. (2004). How’s the e-learning baby? Factors leading to success or failure of an educational technology innovation. Educational technology, 44(1), 5-27.

Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, critical researchers have noted the discrepancy between promises and improvements brought by education technology.

The catchphrase and an utopia has been over decades, if not for centuries, that technology will somehow ‘disrupt’ or revolutionize education.
Teräs, M., Suoranta, J., Teräs, H., & Curcher, M. (2020). Post-Covid-19 education and education technology ‘solutionism’: A seller’s market. Postdigital Science and Education, 2(3), 863-878. Chicago

Ultimately, how teachers respond to externally generated content and how teacher beliefs and practices influence technology integration in the classroom will determine the extent to which the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes expected from ICT-led initiatives are realized.

Chand, V. S., Deshmukh, K. S., & Shukla, A. (2020). Why does technology integration fail? Teacher beliefs and content developer assumptions in an Indian initiative. Educational Technology Research and Development, 68(5), 2753-2774.

… we contend that an overly-narrow framing of digital technology is a crucial element in the persistent failure of the majority of these Ed-Tech initiatives.

… our own approach toward education and Ed-Tech initiatives is rooted in the conviction that one of the greatest responsibilities of today’s society is to educate people at the height of our time. This implies a keen critical awareness of the positive and negative legacy of the past, to understand and participate actively and responsibly in the present, and to be able to improve it in order to build a better future.

Sancho-Gil, J. M., Rivera-Vargas, P., & Miño-Puigcercós, R. (2020). Moving beyond the predictable failure of Ed-Tech initiatives. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(1), 61-75.

Discontinuance

What is a measurement for success in ed tech innovations?

Innovation failure

&

Pretty much everything I’ve got goes back to Dewey!

We can’t live under
For too much longer
We can’t live under
Supercollider once again #ednontech