This is a huge topic in my own mind, and if you read this blog or the previous blog (Nemesis) this is no revelation (ah, damn, a visual term). I think it is an enormous…
Posts tagged technology
Against the Digital Nursery
Against “technology” consultants “integrating” education and technology “in the classroom.” Against the Society of ED TECH creating the professional “experts” that insist schools MUST HAVE iPads etc. in the classroom in order to prepare for…
What Manner of Creature Be This?
The Errant has frequently offered for your edification detailed reports on the fraudulent nature of the corporate reforms in “education.” I do not plan on writing anymore about this, though will still encourage our stalwart…
Clausewitz On the Modern Condition
So, don’t ask me why, but I fell into Clausewitz this morning. From the Ubiquipedia: Carl von Clausewitz was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral (in modern terms, “psychological”) and political…
Yesterday Unheeded: Paul Goodman’s Empty Society
Paul Goodman is always relevant. It is always shocking to me when something I read from decades past is exactly applicable to our situation. But if Mill was correct back in the 1850s, that we…
Calculable Obligations: Motivations of Money and Technology
Debt, that is, as opposed to a promise, is a calculable obligation. I was reading a review of two books on the current state of global indebtedness in the London Review of Books (“Forgive Us…
The Logic of Technagogy
Our advances in technology offer what we might call short-cuts to thinking and doing. The logic of technagogy might be stated thus: the more technology we use in elementary and secondary schools the less the…
Technagogy
What say you to the idea that we are now no more, no greater, than reductively technological as beings? We are the “lesser than” species. And this species does not know liberty Sample Psychosocial Assessment…
Shorter, On Tenure
A teacher in any institution ONLY needs tenure if he/she plans to teach an antagonistic stance to the institution administered nitrate, if necessary, it Is essential to be able toOverall, efficacy data (main and supportive…
To First Do No Harm, Do Nothing First
I am become more convinced that the best and possibly only truly good philosophy of right action is this one: Do No Harm. As the title of the post proposes, we can likely only approach…