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?