I'm a former NYC public schools educator. Yes, teachers are grossly underpaid, lack material resources & deserve far greater social status.
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But is becoming a "brand-name" teacher a sustainable, ethical, or effective means of addressing systemic inequity in American education? No.
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What's motivation to hype the edtech tools & companies as magical panacea that will transform educator practice & student learning? Profits.
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Have these "brand-name" teachers questioned how edtech discourses re accessibility, personalization, disruption might exacerbate inequality?
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Here are just a few of the many troubling aspects of this article that presume edtech is neutral (if not savior), who uses edtech, and how.
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Nearly all of the students & both teachers featured in the article are white. The schools & districts are affluent. This is very problematic
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No discussion re who is celebrated as brand-name teacher, how the ethically dubious title is differentially available & viable for just some
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Article barely mentions learning, not about pedagogy or encouraging inquiry. This is about edtech as driver for privatization of public edu.
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Where's concern for student privacy, data protection, & how edtech is means of student surveillance? Ethical complications are more nuanced.
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If this is future of K12 educator agency & the idealized vision for learning tech in public school, then I want nothing to do with it. Fin.
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