Let's start the #edtech thread with some positive vibes before the critiques piles on:
Some links on the Polycorp Poly 1 computer developed in NZ:
- https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/poly1.htm
- http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/homepages/andrew/poly/Poly.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060424190744/http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3645342a28,00.html
Discovered via https://www.ourfriendthe.computer/
Some links on Plan Informatique pour Tous, the MO5 computers and the logo turtle that was in my elementary school.
- https://www.obsolete-tears.com/logo-et-sa-tortue-dossier-45.html
- https://www.epi.asso.fr/revue/37/b37p023.htm
Voici une machine bien bizarre, une tortue logo, mais version robotique. Cette machine a été utilisée par l’éducation nationale dans le cadre du Plan IPT (Informatique Pour Tous), afin de démontrer les sources de la programmation aux enfants des écoles primaires. Ces tortues physiques étaient donc là afin que les choses soient plus palpables pour des enfants qui n’étaient pas encore tout à fait tombés dans l’air de la micro-informatique.
Some links on the french "Plan Tablettes"
- https://next.ink/6736/108057-quand-cour-comptes-etrille-plan-tablettes-francois-hollande/
- https://www.luipresident.fr/francois-hollande/engagement/tablettes-au-college-33985/
- https://www.lagazettedescommunes.com/595402/numerique-educatif-les-promesses-non-tenues-de-letat/
Au fil d’un rapport accablant, la Cour des comptes épingle le « service public du numérique éducatif », et plus particulièrement le « plan tablettes » voulu par François Hollande. Si l’initiative s’est finalement révélée moins coûteuse que prévu, les magistrats en dénoncent les nombreuses lacunes.
Evidence of a potential, @jesperbalslev phd thesis:
> The dissertation works with the thesis that producing evidence for the benefits of educational technology is methodologically and philosophically unreasonable. The thesis is examined by analyzing a corpus of white papers and politically commissioned evaluation reports spanning four decades, in order to map arguments, epistemic sources and how arguments are used to recommend political interventions
https://jesperbalslev.dk/evidence-of-a-potential-ph-d-thesis/
See also Morgan Ames' The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child
http://morganya.org/charisma.html
> Behind its promises, OLPC, [...] had a fundamentally flawed vision of who the computer was made for and what role technology should play in learning.
> Ames reveals that the laptops were not only frustrating to use, easy to break, and hard to repair, they were designed for idealized younger versions of the developers themselves
A bunch of related HCI refs on deployment failures :
- Baumer & Silberman (2011). When the implication is not to design (technology).
- Gaver, Bowers, Kerridge, Boucher & Jarvis (2009). Anatomy of a failure: how we knew when our design went wrong, and what we learned from it.
- Into the wild: challenges and opportunities for field trial methods.
- Cracks in the Success Narrative: Rethinking Failure in Design Research through a Retrospective Trioethnography
Also by Morgan Ames : "Hackers, Computers, and Cooperation: A Critical History of Logo and Constructionist Learning"
This paper examines the history of the learning theory "constructionism" and its most well-known implementation, Logo, to examine beliefs involving both "C's" in CSCW: computers and cooperation. Tracing the tumultuous history of one of the first examples ...
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