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For as long as we humans have existed, we've sought for better and more effective tools, and now you're saying that's overrated?

• bitlax 7y ago
  No, only that these aren't better or more effective tools.
• chongli 7y ago
  As humans we shape our tools and in turn our tools shape us. Not all tools are good for us. There is a growing backlash against technology in the classroom and it’s being spearheaded by wealthy parents. They recognize that tablets are consumption devices optimized for engagement and that they tend to be very addictive to young children, a bad mix if your goal is to raise your child to be a leader rather than a consumer.
• coffeefirst 7y ago
  Not at all. But we also have a bad habit of conflating flashy new tools with effective ones.
  • rjf72 7y ago
    I'd also add to this that these technologies can be disruptive in another tangential fashion. It's not like a school can ever reach the point of being 100% technologically integrated. You can always have more tools, more software, and more technology in general. And so if at some point you do not step back and say, "You know, I think our problem might be that our current trajectory is fundamentally failing to improve the educational process.", then you can effectively spend an infinite amount of time, energy, and money pursuing a task that is not, and will not, ever provide the results that you're seeking - yet there you are convincing yourself that all you need is a bit more money, a bit more time, or the hottest new tech. And the view will always be controversial because there is an immense amount of money to be made in providing these tools and that money will fight back. It's also quite intuitive that technology should be able to provide substantial improvements in education, and so those driven by their intuition will also fight back. Unfortunately, something being intuitive and something being correct are far from the same thing.
• gameswithgo 7y ago
  the search is good, but sometimes you don’t find anything.