#edsurge — Public Fediverse posts

How do we teach our communities about being good digital citizens. Apparently, a new “digital citizenship and media literacy” bill was just introduced. #digitalcitizenship #DigitalCitizen #k12 #education #medialiteracy #edsurge @edutooters @donwatkins @philshapiro

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2024-02-19-the-growing-importance-of-digital-citizenship

Opinion: Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?
By Matthew Tower
Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?
As 2022 turned into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.”

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2023-01-11-edtech-has-grown-more-common-more-global-and-more-sophisticated-what-s-next

#education #edsurge #edtech #teaching #learning #k12 #edutooter @edutooter @edutooters

Speaking of #Giftedness, it's important and useful to acknowledge that the notion has a dark history, connected with #Eugenics.
https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-vexing-legacy-of-lewis-terman

There's been some coverage of recent controversies about that marred past on #EdSurge, a year and a week ago.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-08-03-the-strange-past-and-messy-future-of-gifted-and-talented

It does sound like we're a new phase wrt this "edtech revolution" that #EdTech founders and #journos were discussing.
Fun that a former #EdSurge editor turned #Googloid would simile #Knewton and #AltSchools as #Theranos of education.
We miss Cassandra.
https://www.edsurge.com//news/2022-03-14-who-is-the-theranos-of-education/

Speaking of #OpenEducation, #Education more generally, #ÉducationÀDeuxVitesses, and #podcasting…
Wonder if we could do some sort of #collaborative listening of this #EdSurge episode on a “new” model for #GiftedEducation.

https://overcast.fm/+xZ-f1X47Q

I’m just reaching the counterpoint section.
Sounds juicy. And fair.

As a disclaimer, I’m predisposed to disagree with the elitist, topdown approach with an explicit connection to Thiel’s secret society.