This is really just a product placement in Michael Feldstein's blog plugging a service developed by friends of his, in an ad for an upcoming webcast, which I would normally just ignore, but the beta demonstration page for CourseGateway illustrates an interesting and important point about ed tech. And it's this: if you look at the website, there are two types of product: courseware, or instructional tools. And for many people, this is what counts as ed tech. Maybe, if we stretch the definition a bit, we might allow content presentation environments like the 'LMS integration' category CourseGateway provides. But now (and think about the post on TikTok I just presented), where are the creativity tools? The picture of ed tech we are presented by CourseGateway is of technology that offers a passive engagement, on the part of both instructors and students. But we should think of ed tech as so much more.
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