{"id":23,"date":"2007-08-13T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minkhollow.ca\/KB\/Blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:54:27","slug":"i-am-an-ed-tech-heretic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2007\/08\/13\/i-am-an-ed-tech-heretic\/","title":{"rendered":"I am an Ed Tech heretic."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Thank you Freeman Dyson. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/documents\/archive\/edge219.html#dysonf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.edge.org\/documents\/archive\/edge219.html#dysonf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">In                       the modern world, science and society often interact in                       a perverse way. We live in a technological society, and                       technology causes political problems. The politicians and                       the public expect science to provide answers to the problems.                       Scientific experts are paid and encouraged to provide answers.                       The public does not have much use for a scientist who says, \u201cSorry,                       but we don\u2019t know\u201d. The public prefers to listen                       to scientists who give confident answers to questions and                       make confident predictions of what will happen as a result                       of human activities. So it happens that the experts who                       talk publicly about politically contentious questions tend                       to speak more clearly than they think. They make confident                       predictions about the future, and end up believing their                       own predictions. Their predictions become dogmas which                       they do not question. The public is led to believe that                       the fashionable scientific dogmas are true, and it may                       sometimes happen that they are wrong. That is why heretics                       who question the dogmas are needed.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s not very popular, I question the dogmas of educational technology. More on this later.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-23'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(23);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(23);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(23);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Thank you Freeman Dyson. http:\/\/www.edge.org\/documents\/archive\/edge219.html#dysonf &#8220;In the modern world, science and society often interact in a perverse way. We live in a technological society, and technology causes political problems. The politicians and the public expect science to provide answers to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2007\/08\/13\/i-am-an-ed-tech-heretic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14,351,24],"tags":[388,41,389,16,393],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-nature-animals-urbanrural-life","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-education","tag-educational-technology","tag-instructional-design","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2149,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/05\/01\/anne-murphy-paul-why-floundering-makes-learning-better-time-ideas-time-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":23,"position":0},"title":"Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME Ideas | TIME.com","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME Ideas | TIME.com. 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