HEWN, No. 337
Audrey Watters,
Hack Education,
Jan 08, 2020
There's an interestiung line of thought offered on Audrey Watters's newsletter HEWN: "one of the most frequent complaints I've heard: that I did not also write a list of 'The 100 Best Ed-Tech Achievements of the Decade.' And that somehow that means my analysis is incomplete." She responds, "education technology or otherwise — does not need my validation. It needs criticism.... there are not "two sides" — some good and some bad ed-tech — that exist in any sort of equal measure.... What if there wasn't anything good about ed-tech? What if ed-tech is totally inseparable from privatization, behavioral engineering, and surveillance?" I happen to think there is something good in ed-tech, at least as I think of it, but her point is valid. You don't have to balance the 'good points' and the 'bad points' of anything. Indeed, much of the time, they won't balance at all. Via Jenny Mackness.
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