<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Tom, thanks for kicking off a great discussion! &nbsp;<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Education Week is another good venue short conversation-starting essays. &nbsp;As part of their recent “10 Big Ideas” Benjamin Herold wrote about “Education has an Innovation Problem” -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/01/09/education-has-an-innovation-problem.html" class="">https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/01/09/education-has-an-innovation-problem.html</a>. &nbsp;Lee and I wrote a short essay that accompanied Herold’s piece. &nbsp;And there’s also an infographic that reports on an innovation survey,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/01/09/what-educators-really-think-about-innovation-infographic.html" class="">What Educators Really Think About Innovation</a>&nbsp;- on that page there’s also a link to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.edweek.org/media/innovation-survey-report-education-week.pdf" class="">full survey results</a>. &nbsp;I found the infographic to be a good exercise/conversation starter for a student leadership retreat.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck, and please know you’ve got an invitation to report back about what you use and how the course/discussions go.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andy</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 20, 2019, at 12:51 PM, Tom Okie &lt;<a href="mailto:wtokie@gmail.com" class="">wtokie@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi all, <br class=""></div><div class="">Apologies if I've missed an earlier discussion of educational technology on this list, but I'm in the process of developing a list of readings/viewings for a course I teach called "Technology for Historians and History Educators," mostly to practicing teachers. I take a broad view of technology in the course (we talk about blackboards and codices as well as digital tech), and we'll be reading Larry Cuban's <i class="">Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom</i>, and some of Audrey Watters' writing on edtech. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway, I'd be eager to hear if anyone has other suggestions for pieces that might teach well, including pieces that praise edtech, promise innovation and disruption, or address maintenance problems in education. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Tom Okie</div><div class="">Kennesaw State University<br class=""> </div></div>
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