Hyperbole and Bad Faith
Each new week brings with it the publication of yet another book telling us how technological developments will damage, or are already damaging, humankind. We a...
Tag: technology
Pedagogy before Technology?
Don’t think so….
There are those who would prefer to pretend otherwise, but developments in the digital and networking technologies over recent decades, developments that are gr...
Technology is not ‘just a tool’
Education and technology share a number of interesting characteristics. We can agree, for instance, that education should be about affirmative transformation, a...
Fixing Education’s Historical Fixation
The limitless network of networks that we now inhabit, with its boundless stores of data and information, is quickly democratizing access to knowledge for every...
Is digital pedagogy a meaningful construct?
Does the term ‘digital pedagogy’ have any validity? It depends, of course, upon the assumptions we make about pedagogy generally and therefore on the definition...
Human Capacity
Education is a universal. It is a truism to say that, in every age throughout human history, in every society, every nation, every tribe, every empire, we have ...
Good and Bad eLearning
It is common, even amongst strong advocates for the use of digital technology in education, to begin any discussion of eLearning with an affirmation that the &l...