Is learning technology fit for purpose?

Is learning technology fit for purpose?

In my opinion generally yes … but are the education systems they support equally optimized? Today’s education is focused on administration of learning and as such learning technology inevitably has the similar focus.
It’ll be interesting to see One Big Question: a #digped Discussion turns out:

Imagine that no educational technologies had yet been invented — no chalkboards, no clickers, no textbooks, no Learning Management Systems, no Coursera MOOCs. If we could start from scratch, what would we build?

The problem I see with that question is as I recently highlighted:

the tyranny of the present is, it makes it very difficult to think of any change that’s not incremental to it  – Alan Kay

I’m personally really looking forward to seeing how the Lawrie Phillips and Donna Lanclos  session goes at #altc this year on Reframing the debate? Learning Technologies part 2 (paper 881 in the programme)

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