Disappointment With ISTE
1. The Social Vacuum: ISTE can easily slip into a technophiliac dystopia, where no one talks about the role of technology in social issues like immigration or poverty. I didn’t see anything about service learning or using technology as a means for social change (like we’re seeing in real-time in part of the Arab world)
2. Not Enough Emphasis on Content: I expected to see something about social studies (and how we approach a subject in a transnational, globalized world where politics, geography, economic forces and social systems are in constant flux) or something on meaningful math (call it paperless, tech-integrated, etc.).
3. A Lack of Digital Ethics: By this I mean deep-thinking technology criticism. What does it mean to think well about the medium? How does a tool change how we think? How does it change how we communicate? How