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May 8, 2014
Five Reasons Not To Use Educational TechnologyBy: Andrew Campbell (@acampbell99)
Five Reasons NOT to Use EdTech
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I‘d Like to Irritate You
“A pearl might be thought of as an oyster's response to its suffering” Rachel Naomi
Remen
“…we see more and farther than our
predecessors, not because we have keener vision or
greater height, but because we are
lifted up and borne aloft on their
gigantic stature”Bernard of Chartres
“All Islamic artists make a deliberate error in their work on the grounds that
Only God Is Perfect.”
“The small dots within each of the two energies (represented by black and white) symbolize that there is always some Yin
(black) within Yang (white) and vice versa.”
Islamic Art
Yin and Yang
Part of embracing technology in the classroom has to be recognizing the flaws
A Smorgasbord of EdTech Issues
Technology in the Classroom
$344 Billion$382 Billion$483 Billion
$31.31 billion (2013)
$59.90 billion (2018)
+13.9%
EdTech is BIG Business
($3-6 billion in Canada (estimated))
What Brand Are You??What Brand Is Your Board??
“Our kids are being prepared for
passive obedience, not creative,
independent lives” Noam Chomsky “The Corporate
Assault on Public Education”
How do corporate values align with the values of Education?
Some Questions
Differentiated LearningDifferentiation
Professional Autonomy &Differentiated
Learning
Regulation 298: 7. (1) The principal of a school, in consultation with the teachers concerned, shall select from the list of the
textbooks approved by the Minister (Trillium List) the textbooks for the use of pupils of the
school, and the selection shall be subject to the approval of the board. R.R.O. 1990, Reg.
298, s. 7 (1).
Under Threat?Who chooses the
digital instructional materials in your
school?
Do educators have input into the digital
tools used?
Is there a list of approved tools that
educators select from based on student
needs?
Red pandas are currently classified as vulnerable.
There are fewer than 10, 000 of them alive.
Would You Take That Deal?
SMARTeacher Inc., Burlington, Ontario
“if a marketer knocked on your door and asked to spend several hours secretly
observing your child, recording everything he or she was doing and
saying for secret purposes, you’d probably tell them to take a hike. This is
happening every day with very little resistance.”
Sara M. GrimesUniversity of Toronto, Faculty of
Information
I Just can’t even…
Ganz Toy Company, Woodbridge, Ontario
On March 7, 2012, The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada initiated a complaint against Ganz under subsection 11(2) of the Act.
In 2005 Ganz, a privately-held Canadian partnership, introduced the concept of web-enabled plush toys called “Webkinz” (“Pets”) and launched the accompanying ‘Webkinz
World’ website
RecommendationsMinimize the collection of personal informationPrevent the “inadvertent collection” of personal information (usernames)Deleting inactive accountsPrivacy practices must be understandableDefault Settings Should Be Private
“One thing is clear: those who have the power to protect
student privacy will not do so as long as they can continue to subsidize the cost of public
education with student data.” Jessy Irwin. (@JessySaurusRex)
Grooming Students for A Lifetime of Surveillance
“ a great digital divide persists where lower-income households
remain without internet.”
“38% percent of Canadians in the lowest income quartile don’t have
Internet access…
…compared with 5% of Canadians in the highest income quartile”
“Arthur” By Marc Brown, circa 1986
An Historical Problem
“Every child deserves the chance to
participate in the information revolution.”
Bill Clinton, President of The United States of America
State of The Union Address, 2000
“Those from low SES are less likely
to have a computer in their own home (2003)”
“Statscan data points to Canada’s growing digital divide (2013)”
•Students from low-income families aren’t exposed to technology
•Students don’t see technology use modelled in the same way (Second Level Digital Divide)
•Low income students can’t access the same resources outside of school time
•Only see the internet through school filters•Excluded from benefits of innovative
practices (BYOD, Flip Class)
Consequences of The Digital Divide
What Do All These Things Have In Common?
?
Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations (PLATO)Late 1960’s. Dr Donald Bitzer’s (U of Illinois) “Teaching Machine”
“One thing we feel strongly about: teachers aren't going anywhere. Whatever word you
choose - teacher, tutor, preceptor, or something else - the role a teacher plays in the classroom is
huge.” Jeff & Katie Dunn
“Teachers are not, and cannot be automatons handing out information to students. They
are leaders, guides, facilitators, and mentors.”
“Teachers often ask me, am I going to lose my job? I say no because your job will get harder. It will become a different job. It will go from
being a master standing at the front of class to a helpful friend at the back.”
Sugata Mitra, professor of educational technology at Newcastle University
Teaching is Changing Because of Technology
“older, more experienced teachers – not younger, so-called digital
natives – are experimenting more with new technology in the
classroom” Young Canadians in a Wired World (2013)
What about teachers not suited
to using technology?
What about students or
subjects that don’t want or suit tech?
Questions
Are You an Innovator or an Early Adopter??
Characteristics of the Early Adoptersocially aware and do not want to risk rejection by standing out from the crowdif they see a good idea, they will hold back, approaching it with cautionwhen they see enough others adopting the idea, they cast caution to the winds and dive in for fear of being left behind
EdTech Needs of Early Majority✤ Exposed to embedded early adopters showing
them the benefits of new technology✤ Support in learning how tho use them and
encouraging them to take risks✤ Reliable infrastructure- reduce risk of failure
Are We Providing A Reliable Infrastructure?
Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION)6,000 km of fibre connecting more than 2 million students, educators, researchers and
innovators in Ontario
Thank you for listening
Have a safe drive home
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