A couple of months ago, I wrote about how it appears that the long-running love affair with edtech appears to be ending. Those observations were based on some big changes happening here in the overly large school district, most of which were also being replicated in many other areas of the country.
There was one other big, but subtle change I didn’t include, one that very much reinforces this idea: ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education is no more.
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For the past eight years or so the National Air and Space Museum,1 the most popular Smithsonian site in DC, has been undergoing a major renovation. During that time the institution remained open to the public (except during the pandemic, of course) as they worked on the various galleries.
The new academic year began this week here in the overly-large school district. And for the first time in almost twenty years, students will no longer be allowed to bring their own devices to use in the classroom.
Over the 23 years I’ve been ranting in this space, one of my regular targets has been the writings of Jay Mathews.
Tonight my wife is in downtown DC – for the first of three very hot, humid nights – to do the annual PBS program, A Capitol Fourth.