25 Years of Ed Tech

A huge thank you to the OE Global community for awarding our project a 2021 Open Education Award of Excellence for Reuse/ Remix/ Adaptation. for the 25 Years of EdTech: The Serialized Audio Version. From the OE Global Awards team: The award was given to the project in the “Open Reuse/Remix/Adaptation” category and, according to the adjudicators, the project is an outstanding example of the power of OER reuse for the following reasons;Remixing the physical book into an audiobook has increased accessibility by providing the text in an alternate format.Drawing together the open education community around the reading of the text sparked the companion “Between the Chapters” podcast, providing a deeper dive and critical analysis by experts into the topic of each chapter. This has added an additional layer of richness to the original book. The weekly podcast release schedule, and accompanying critical analysis created a fundamentally new way to experience the book – slower and in bitesize chunks. Each episode of the main recording or the companion podcast also now exists as an OER available for future use / reuse.This was a project that could not have happened without an openly licensed book so thank you @mweller & @au_press -- thank you so much! This is just a quick thank you speech (in podcast format, of course) from Laura and Clint.And a huge thank you to all the volunteers who voiced and/or guested as part of the project. We have listed everyone by name below (and we hope we did not miss anyone who contributed):Bonni Stachowiak, Jeffery Saddoris, Tim Carson, Ken Bauer, Angela Gunder, Brian Lamb, Lorna M. Campbell & Phil Barker, Tom Farrelly, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Catherine Cronin, Chad Flinn, Sukaina Walji, Grant Potter, Julian Prior, Simon Horrocks, Terry Greene, Laura Czerniewicz, Rajiv Jhangiani, Brenna Clarke Gray, Deb Baff, Maha Bali , Caroline kuhn, Anne-Marie Scott, Alan Levine, Jim Groom, Mark Brown, Clare Thompson, Jessie Stommel Mark Guzdial, Kelvin Bentley Brian Lamb John Robertson D’Arcy Norman Laura Gibbs Bonnie Stewart, Maren Deepwell, Judith Pete, Virginia Rodés Bryan Alexander, Alexandra Pickett, Sara Frick, Orna Farrell, David Wicks, Sue Beckingham, Chrissi Nerantzi, Tanis Morgan Autumm Caines, Rebecca Hogue, Christian Frierich, Helen DeWaard, Dave Cormier, Rolin Moe, Amanda Coolidge, George Veletsianos Dragan Gasevic, Joyce Seitzinger, Chris Gilliard, David Kernohan, Audrey Watters, sava sahali singhDo you have thoughts, comments, or questions about this podcast? Send us a message or tweet. 

This 25 Years of Ed Tech Audio Project has been a blast! Thanks to all of the community:Readers of the chaptersGuests for the "Between the Chapters" book club episodesThe community of listenersMartin Weller -- who let us remix his book!We appreciate ALL of you and are grateful for your contributions in this @YearsEd audiobook project. Thanks y'all! In this episode, you'll hear Clint Lalonde and Laura Pasquini give their 4 L Retrospective -- the things they loved, loathed, longed for, and Learned + what's next on the horizon of audio works.Did you miss this BONUS episode?: #OERxDomains21 Panel: OER & the @YearsEd ProjectWe want to hear from you, dear @YearsEd listener! Submit your audio reflections by May 15th to add your voice to the community audiobook project! #25YearsOfEdTech: Call for Audio Reflections When recorded, send a message or tweet. If/When we receive these audio reflections, you might see a few extra episodes in this podcast feed. :)Podcast episode art: X-Ray Specs by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC-BY-SA. Remix by Laura Pasquini.

Having surveyed one particular take on 25 years of ed tech, it is now possible to synthesize some generalities. In this chapter, several themes arising from the analysis of this history will be proposed, and then some suggestions regarding what this means for the next 25 years of ed tech will be proffered. Read by Martin Weller.

For Between the Chapters episode, Laura is in conversation with Audrey Watters and sava saheli singh to navigate these troubling waters of educational technology. This episode swirls around the ed tech’s dystopian storm from Chapter 25; however, we all agreed there are many dark aspects from previous chapters and years prior to hit the fever pitch of 2018.  The issues and challenges of a number teaching and learning technologies have been brought up in previous bonus book club chats. Beyond avoiding the sci-fi plot being drafted by technology companies, we can find agency through refusal and doing more than just being critical of  ed tech. We need to return to a sense of “the commons” in higher ed, where care and compassion  coexist with our practices -- let’s pack up our values & build that space again, my friends.New Round of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grants Steers Clear of Ed Tech Pushback Against Summit Learning Implementation in Kansas – “Start of a Rebellion,” or a Learning Experience?So You Want the Tips and Tricks of EdTech Integration… (Sal Khan)Ender’s Game (book)Black Mirror (TV)How China Is Using “Social Credit Scores” to Reward and Punish Its CitizensThe West could be closer to China's system of 'social credit scoring' than you thinkNetworked professional identity and community online (reflections)California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)Canada’s Anti-Spam LegislationGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Schools Are Deploying Massive Digital Surveillance Systems. The Results Are AlarmingPushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their UseProctorio vs. Ian Linketter Defence  Background: Ed-Tech Specialist Fights Proctorio LawsuitListening to Refusal: Opening Keynote for #APTconf 2019 by Donna LanclosRefusal, Partnership, and Countering Educational Technology’s Harms by Charles Logan Un-Annotated by Audrey Watters More than 60 academic programs at Laurentian University cut due to insolvency issuesOakland school board unanimously agrees to eliminate its police forceWe Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame KabaWhat is the Prison Industrial Complex?Questions asked:Where do the responsibilities lie for educational technology?When was the last time you resisted technology? How do you use refusal in ed tech?What should we refuse or resist more, in general? Where did the common go in our shared institutions?How can we build a better community to have reciprocity and responsibility for one another in ed tech/higher ed/life?What if we do decide that ed tech makes things worse?Where do we go if ed tech is actually a dystopian project?What is it that we value that is not wrapped up in ed tech we want to take with us?How do we reclaim some of the agency, hope, and good stuff we thought would come out of ed tech?If there is a commons somewhere, where is it? Can we get an invite?Continue learning from these guests of the pod:Audrey: https://audreywatters.com/sava: https://www.screeningsurveillance.com/ We want to hear from you, dear @YearsEd listener! Submit your audio reflections by May 1st to add your voice to the community audiobook project! #25YearsOfEdTech: Call for Audio Reflections When recorded, send a message or tweet. Do you have directions out of the ed tech wasteland? Are you building the commons somewhere? If so, tell us about it! Send a message or tweet. Podcast episode art: X-Ray Specs by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC-BY-SA. Remix by kevin tsakuhhin.

For this final year of the 25, a trend rather than a technology is the focus. There is in much of ed tech a growing divide, particularly in evidence at conferences. One camp is largely uncritical, seeing ed tech as a sort of Silicon Valley-inspired, technological utopia that will cure all of education’s problems. This is often a reflection-free zone, because the whole basis of this industry is built on selling perfect solutions, often to problems that have been artificially concocted. In contrast to this is a developing strand of criticality around the role of technology in society and in education in particular. This camp can sometimes be guilty of being overly critical, seeking reasons to refute every technology and dismiss any change. However, with the impact of social media on politics, Russian bots, disinformation, data surveillance, and numerous privacy scares, the need for a critical approach is apparent. Being skeptical about technology can no longer be seen as a specialist interest. Read by Anne-Marie Scott.