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Without Ed-Tech Criticism...

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August 15, 2015
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Without Ed-Tech Criticism...

Scratch AMS 2015

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Transcript

  1. Without Ed-Tech Criticism… Audrey Watters @audrey watters Scratch AMS 2015

  2. “Why do you hate ed-tech?” “Why do you hate reading

    comprehension?”

  3. You have to choose: technological progress or Luddism

  4. “Combating technocentrism involves more than thinking about technology” — Seymour

    Papert

  5. “The purpose of computer criticism is not to condemn…” —

    Seymour Papert

  6. Ed-tech criticism as activism, as tactic — connected to critical

    thinking, critical making, critical pedagogy