J-ed Talks

Topics in this epsiode My background as a teacher with EdTech My background as a student (online/distance)   Interaction between teachers and vendors EdTech community hype Over-emphasis on EdTech What type of research is done Things that are missing in an online environment Support through the 'grief' process in learning new stuff Teachers are expecting more from kids (especially re instructions) Learning conversations are stilted and unnatural Skills (as a conceptual whole) to thrive online - analogy to a novice apprenticed to a master to gain 'in-group' status The danger of this mass move to online/remote teaching is that ideas are disempowered (Papert). What does this mean for the pathway (i.e., the discourse going forward) - the types of questions/assumptions that are debated and enacted?