EdTech in the Wild critical blog posts Royce Kimmons Version: 0.20 Built on: 06/13/2021 09:41pm This book is provided freely to you by CC BY: This work is released under a CC BY license, which means that you are free to do with it as you please as long as you properly attribute it. Table of Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 5 List of Author Blogs and Twitter Accounts ............................................................................. 9 Licensing Information .............................................................................................................. 10 1. Innovation & Disruption ............................................................................................................. 11 25 Years of Ed Tech .................................................................................................................. 13 If We Were Really Serious about Educational Technology ................................................ 15 We Can't Let Educators Off the Hook .................................................................................... 17 Interventions ............................................................................................................................. 21 Waiting for O Superman .......................................................................................................... 26 A Field Guide to "Jobs that Don't Exist Yet" ......................................................................... 29 A Definition of Emerging Technologies for Education ........................................................ 36 Innovation in Higher Education ... and Other Blasts from the Past ................................. 39 To Lecture Capture or Not to Lecture Capture? ................................................................... 48 Possible Futures for Innovation and Technology in Higher Education ............................ 54 This is Not the Online Learning You (or We) are Looking For ........................................... 58 Reclaiming Disruption .............................................................................................................. 65 2. Openness & Sharing .................................................................................................................... 70 Into the Open ............................................................................................................................. 72 Defining the 'Open' in Open Content and Open Educational Resources ......................... 77 Exploring the Open Knowledge Landscape .......................................................................... 79 Planning to Share Versus Just Sharing ................................................................................. 91 The Access Compromise and the 5th R ................................................................................. 95 Open Textbooks? UGH. ............................................................................................................. 98 My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice ....................................................................... 101 Remix, Mashups, Aggregation, Plagiarism Oh My ............................................................. 109 Crossing the Field Boundaries: Open Science, Open Data & Open Education .............. 114 The CCK08 MOOC .................................................................................................................... 122 OERs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ............................................................................... 125 What's Right and What's Wrong about Coursera-Style MOOCs ...................................... 131 Opening Up Open Pedagogy ................................................................................................. 134 Open Pedagogy and a Very Brief History of the Concept ................................................ 139 International Something: Why You Should Care #DigPed ............................................... 143 Does Open Pedagogy Require OER? .................................................................................... 147 Pragmatism vs. Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy ................................ 151 Open Ends? .............................................................................................................................. 157 The Fallacy of 'Open' .............................................................................................................. 160 3. Identity & Participation ............................................................................................................ 175 The Question Should be: Why Are You *Not* Blogging .................................................... 176 The Kindness of Blogging ...................................................................................................... 181 An Introduction to Connective Knowledge ......................................................................... 184 Rhizomatic Education ............................................................................................................. 206 A History of Knowledge, Distributed Cognition, and the PhD ......................................... 213 Some Observations on PLE Diagrams .................................................................................. 218 E-Learning 2.0 ......................................................................................................................... 225 EdTech in the Wild 3 The Role of Personality in Education ................................................................................... 232 Digital Identities ..................................................................................................................... 234 Kith ............................................................................................................................................ 238 Nobody's Version of Dumb .................................................................................................... 242 something is rotten in the state of ... Twitter ................................................................... 245 cliqueonomics .......................................................................................................................... 249 Colonisers and Edupunks (&C.) ............................................................................................ 251 Digital Trespass and Critical Literacy #OER17 ................................................................... 256 4. Equity & Power .......................................................................................................................... 260 The Golden Age of Education that Never Was ................................................................... 262 Blackboard Patents the LMS ................................................................................................. 266 The Glass Bees ........................................................................................................................ 269 What Do We Owe Students When We Collect Their Data - A Response ........................ 273 AI is Coming for Your Instructional and Learning Design Jobs, Apparently .................. 281 MOOCs and Directing an Academic Field ............................................................................ 283 The Audacity: Thrun Learns a Lesson and Students Pay ................................................. 285 The Lower Ed Ecosystem: Bootcamps Edition .................................................................... 288 #BreakOpen Breaking Open .................................................................................................. 291 Open Cyborgs at #ALTC ......................................................................................................... 300 Platform Literacy in a Time of Mass Gaslighting ............................................................... 302 Why We Shouldn't Let Economists Play with Education .................................................. 309 Connectivity as Poverty ......................................................................................................... 318 Reproducing Marginality? ...................................................................................................... 320 Inclusion Again ........................................................................................................................ 324 OER, Equity, and Implicit Creative Redlining ..................................................................... 329 For Now, Our Own ................................................................................................................... 331 Concluding Thoughts ..................................................................................................................... 334 Appendices ...................................................................................................................................... 336 A List of Some Great EdTech Blogs ...................................................................................... 337 Recommendations for Formal Learning .............................................................................. 338 Back Matter ....................................................................................................................................