Matt’s NotesWelcome, one and all to the latest EnT!
This is more a spiritual sequel than a direct sequel per se… we are all about UNDERSTATED success in education and/or ed tech… as opposed to celebrating success in education, as we did back in Episode 50: Celebrated Summer! Thematically, I am delighted to pair one notion of success vis-à-vis one Minneapolis punk juggernaut in Hüsker Dü (Episode 50) against another vis-à-vis their hometown rivals The Replacements (Episode 53). Not that much about the ‘Mats or the Hüskers is particularly understated! I’ve been listening to both bands for more than 2/3 of my life. What a thing!
https://youtu.be/nsTFYGXQEBoNever mind the Maritime Internet… here’s the EnT!! #ednontechWhen you hear a drum roll, you know the Maritime Internet has failed! #ednontech
TRU EDUC Course(s)This will be my final post about this for now.
It’s been an honour to work with Dr. Pamela Gurney on these three lectures, and the responses to her students thus far. Much gratitude and respect to Dr. Doug Reid, and Dr. Hassan Arif for being guests on these episodes / lectures… and for responding to students from EDUC 5040!
Given the circumstances of my departure from TRU, and subsequent actions by the university… i.e., blocking my IP address from nearly all publicly-facing websites…
Let’s just say, it means alot to me personally… and professionally… that Pam would reach out to me and then develop these lectures with her input… it’s hard to express in words how meaningful that is from someone in her position, and in our shared history as colleagues!
Her students’ questions were all brilliant and thought-provoking! I am pleased beyond belief that this podcast has somehow become a vehicle through which legitimate academic and professional discourse can happen in public! In that regard, the EnT has surpassed significantly my extremely modest and irreverent first ideas for the enterprise!
How to be a Friend (Cicero) / The Killer (Film / Graphic Novel)These are two books I’m hoping to finish this weekend and/or early next week!
One consequence of taking on EnT Conversations & Lectures… awesome, though they are… is that between those and the music podcast… there’s limited bandwidth for just about anything else outside of work and keeping up with my kids…
I’m looking forward to finishing these books! I may even watch The Killer on Nextflix for the third time… which is high praise from me… I have yet to watch a movie in 2024… my attention span for the format is limited to almost nil… but every year there are a couple of films that really jump out… and Fincher is among the best directors of his generation…
And… Cicero… is really something I’ve been thinking about lately, for lots of reasons… I’m lucky to have friends from my childhood, teen years, early adulthood… and even early/mid-career… and recently… who I would call “good friends” or whatnot… the older I get, the more I appreciate these people, it seems…
I hope you know who you are!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S7FR_HCg9gDoug’s NotesA focus on understated successes, techniques, and technologyWhat is needed then is a conceptual shift in emphasis from the tangible barriers of the implementation process to more theoretical issues related to the identity of educational technology, its theoretical assumptions, and its paradigmatic conflict with education.
Albirini, A. (2007). The crisis of educational technology, and the prospect of reinventing education. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 10(1), 227-236.
Successful implementation of e-learning is dependent on the extent to which the needs and concerns of the stakeholder groups involved are addressed.
Clearly, a rapid and fundamental shift in higher education practice has taken place, driven by technology adoption. Yet at the same time, nothing much has changed, and many edtech developments have failed to have significant impact.
Weller, M. (2018). Twenty years of EdTech. Educause Review Online, 53(4), 34-48.
EdTech has started to play a role in the education of millions of children in developing countries
Rodriguez-Segura, D. (2022). EdTech in developing countries: A review of the evidence. The World Bank Research Observer, 37(2), 171-203.
Concepts
constructionism Products / practices / techniques
Printing Press
Phrase of the PodcastMaritime internet is putting us through the gears
Question of the PodcastHow can we stay optimistic with technology change in education and not get cynical?
https://youtu.be/y5e6A_EozH0?si=dEBmfpCsNmgSWIcHHas it been that much time already? Well, let’s make the next time extra-soon!