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'Luddite Sensibilities' and the Future of Education
This is the transcript of my keynote at the Digital Pedagogy Lab this morning. Except not really. It was a "flipped" keynote, so this is more like the pre-reading for what I actually talked about. Sort...
View ArticlePigeon Pedagogy
These were my remarks today during my "flipped" keynote at DigPed. You can read the transcript of my keynote here.We haven't had a dog in well over a decade. Kin and I travel so much that it just...
View ArticleRobot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy
I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It's really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough term. I spoke tonight in Dorothy Kim's class "Race...
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Selling the Future of Ed-Tech (& Shaping Our Imaginations)
I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It's really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough term. I spoke briefly tonight in Anna Smith's class on...
View ArticleCheating, Policing, and School Surveillance
I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It's really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough term. I spoke this morning to Jeffrey Austin's class at...
View ArticleBehaviorism Won
I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this term. Yesterday, I talked to the students in Roxana Marachi's educational psychology class at San Jose State.Thank you very much for inviting me...
View ArticleEd-Tech and Trauma
Here are my remarks today from a Contact North webinar with Paul Prinsloo: "Why Technology is Not the Answer."So I want to apologize at the outset for being a bit unprepared for today's webinar. As you...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations
I was a guest today in Chris Hoadley's NYU class on ed-tech and globalization. Here's a bit of my rant...Thank you so much for inviting me to speak to you today. I have been really stumped as to what I...
View ArticleBehaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work
I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in, a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio.I am very pleased but also really...
View ArticleRemember This Year
I have had "write year-in-review" on my To Do list for about a month-and-a-half now. But every day I ignore the task, hoping that I'll feel more like writing tomorrow. Tomorrow is the last day of this...
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Pre-Order Teaching Machines
Teaching Machines is available for pre-order via the MIT Press website (and anywhere books are sold — consider supporting your local bookseller).I spent a few days trying to revamp the Teaching...
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What Happened & What's Next
Hack Education, as perhaps you've noticed, has been on hiatus for a while. What with the pandemic, the death of my son, and the publication of Teaching Machines, I really couldn't continue to pay...
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The History of the School Bell
I'd wager it's the most frequently told story about ed-tech — one told with more gusto and more frequency even than "computers will revolutionize teaching" and "you can learn anything on YouTube."...
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Hope for the Future
This is the transcript of the keynote I gave today at Digifest. (Well, I recorded it a couple of weeks ago, but it was broadcast today, and I popped in for some "live" Q&A afterwards, where I was...
View ArticleThe End
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from my friend Eli Luberoff, the founder and CEO of Desmos. It was news I'd been anticipating — dreading, really — for some time: the startup had been...
View ArticleThe Return
Week in and week out, there are a litany of stories that, if I were paying attention to education technology, would prompt me to say “I told you so.” Why look, just in the last few days: coding...
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