The Internet is NOT the Best Place for Kids to Learn After the Coronavirus Pandemic
If the Coronavirus quarantine has taught educators one thing, it’s this.
After all these years of corporations throwing apps at us and well-meaning administrators providing us with devices and philanthrocapitalists pumping billions of dollars into ed tech first academic schemes, we can all see now that the emperor has no clothes.
When schools nationwide are closed to stop the spread of a global pandemic and learning is restricted to whatever teachers can cobble together on sites like Google Classroom and ZOOM, we can all see the Imperial scepter blowing in the wind.
The problem is that this is only clear to parents, students and teachers.
The people who get to make ed policy decisions are as blind as ever – as witnessed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s tone deaf insistence that his state reimagine schools CONTINUE READING: The Internet is NOT the Best Place for Kids to Learn After the Coronavirus Pandemic | gadflyonthewallblog
