With the end of the year there are some great articles showing up reflecting on debacles of the decade. One of my favorites is The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade. Ed-Tech is one of those fields where over and over techies think they know better. Some of the debacles Watters discusses:
- 3D Printing
- The “Flipped Classroom” (Full disclosure: I sat on a committee that funded these.)
- Op-Eds to ban laptops
- Clickers
- Stories about the end of the library
- Interactive whiteboards
- The K-12 Cyber Incident Map (Check it out here)
- IBM Watson
- The Year of the MOOC
This collection of 100 terrible ideas in instructional technology should be mandatory reading for all of us who have been keen on ed-tech. (And I am one who has develop ed-tech and oversold it.) Each item is a mini essay with links worth following.