TLT CoffeeRead for August 21: Can a gadget guy also be an education guy?
Christopher Dawson of ZDNet talks about a student who confronted him on his opinions on educational technology, and offers her own ideas.
Can a gadget guy be an education guy?
"I’ll be the first to admit that I love all things hardware. My gadget lust is, well, kind of sad. My wife would absolutely throw me under the bus in a heartbeat and agree with her. I wonder, though, if hardware and educational focuses can’t go hand in hand, though? After all, schools don’t spend very much, unfortunately, on pedagogy around the use of technology in education. Rather, they spend money on hardware which, in theory, should support the pedagogy."
