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Ed tech’s failure during the pandemic, and what comes after

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
dc.creator Reich, Justin
dc.date 2022-08-25T15:19:24Z
dc.date 2022-08-25T15:19:24Z
dc.date 2021
dc.date 2022-08-25T15:05:51Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T20:11:05Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T20:11:05Z
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144438
dc.identifier Reich, Justin. 2021. "Ed tech’s failure during the pandemic, and what comes after." Phi Delta Kappan, 102 (6).
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/242166
dc.description <jats:p> For decades, technology advocates have claimed that we are on the cusp of a complete transformation in education. But, as Justin Reich explains, such transformations have not yet come to pass. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers did not use technology to significantly alter their teaching. Instead, technology enabled them to maintain many of their classroom routines (using learning management systems or video conferencing) or supplement their usual instruction (using gamified apps). Teachers did, however, tinker with their methods throughout the pandemic, gradually improving over time. Reich suggests that this tinkering framework is a more realistic way to think about ed tech’s potential to support teaching and learning. </jats:p>
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher SAGE Publications
dc.relation 10.1177/0031721721998149
dc.relation Phi Delta Kappan
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.source Prof. Justin Reich
dc.title Ed tech’s failure during the pandemic, and what comes after
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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