Mike Vachow
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Audrey Watters, an essential critic of educational technology, leaves the conversation.
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Mike Vachow
- Oct 20, 2021
- 3 min
Not Home, Part 2
Driven by necessity but limited by elemental human need, remote learning will grow only on the margins.
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Mike Vachow
- Aug 29, 2021
- 3 min
Review: Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning, by Audrey Watters
Audrey Watters traces the history of personalized learning and teaching machines from 1920 to today. The through line is behaviorism.
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Mike Vachow
- May 24, 2021
- 4 min
Keep it Real
Next year, schools will weigh convenience and intimacy when organizing how adults will work together.
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Mike Vachow
- Oct 13, 2020
- 5 min
Expensive and Messy
Next year, elementary educators will focus on reclaiming and growing what the pandemic took away from children this year.
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Mike Vachow
- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
The New, Older Normal
Next year, the new normal for elementary schools may be older than the old normal.
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Mike Vachow
- Sep 24, 2019
- 4 min
Socrates Hacked It
Any innovation or disruption in schools must meet the essential first measure: does it promote dignity?
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Mike Vachow
- Sep 6, 2019
- 5 min
Robo Cop
The economy of the future will be built on attention, a more difficult skill than ever to teach.
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Mike Vachow
- Apr 3, 2019
- 3 min
Oriole Haiku
Guidance for school employees on social media and the use of digital tools at school.
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Mike Vachow
- Apr 24, 2018
- 3 min
Not Home
School holds a special value as "not home" that is critical in helping kids develop confidence, independence.
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Mike Vachow
- Mar 27, 2018
- 3 min
User/Used
Too many edtech products make false promises of agency, in which the "user" is, in fact, used.
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Mike Vachow
- Dec 19, 2017
- 3 min
Bit Learning
Can block chain theory redefine the value of education?
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