Responsible and Principled Ed Tech Design:The Need for Ontology and Teleology
It’s being said that the future of education is machine centered and algorithmic, and the greatest critique of this vision centers on a lack of transparency. ( Waters and Williamson). If we want to...
View ArticleThe Place of Tech in Ed Tech
This is a follow-up, or another view relevant to my last post. George Siemens posted this goodbye to his involvement in Ed Tech because: (E)ducational technology is not becoming more human; it is...
View ArticleSidebar: Reference on Computational Thinking
Mike Guzdial’s recent post points out that you can’t assume far transfer in learning, in this case specifically for computational thinking. This thought is also relevant for adapted learning programs...
View ArticleA response to Stephen Downes
Stephen posted recently on meaning in language in a way that I don’t generally understand in conceptualizing education practice. He divides word use into units like token or types, similar to a...
View ArticleSearching for A 21st Century Pedagogy
Topics like educational reform or Ed Tech require a clear understanding of learning processes. You might think that we already understand learning, but in fact this corner of educational psychology...
View ArticleEducation Reformers Need the Ideas of C.S. Peirce
This post is in draft mode especially the concluding remarks Summary: Education would be well served by the scientific approach of C.S. Peirce, especially in the light of recent reliability problems in...
View ArticleSteven Pinker vs Leon Wieseltier: Beyond the Polemic in Science vs Humanities
Let me tell a story. The 18th and 19th Century was a time of the flowering of the enlightenment and intellectual achievement. But it was also a flowering of the idealism that lie (even if dormant) in...
View ArticleAchieving Clarity Through Assessment
(P)ragmatism is that method of reflexion which is guided by constantly holding in view its purpose and the purpose of the ideas it analyzes . . . a method of reflexion having for its purpose to render...
View ArticleSocial Science Has Failed (by Any Practical Standard)
Time for a Wholistic Reconception or Why Science Needs Philosophy Let’s start with a short list of disappointments: The Replication Crisis in Psychology, Little Progress in Evidence-based Social...
View ArticleChanging Schools; Changing Futures
But here’s the thing — the first step toward shifting a system is knowing what it’s meant to do. The study of philosophy consists, therefore, in reflexion, and pragmatism is that method of reflexion...
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