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This has been a significant point of friction in departments I’ve been in. Either the college or the chair really wants a particular technology to be used in the classroom and teachers with no interest in it either have to shoehorn it in or get into stupid power struggles.
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It really depends what is meant by ed-tech.
Classroom management tools are obviously a great boon, and I utilize tech heavily in my teaching (bespoke custom tech programmed by myself, I'm proud to say).
The problem isn't the tech itself, it's one-size-fits-all approaches that are primarily driven by financial incentives disconnected from student learning.
Teachers should be the ones deciding what tech they want in their classrooms and how. I'm a big believer in teacher autonomy, but also greater freedom for administrators to fire or discipline bad teachers.
haha, you always find a way to bring it back to this topic