Not the places people call “tourist traps”. The phrase itself.
There is no such thing. As with art, and so many other subjective topics, a tourist trap in the eye of the beholder.
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It’s the start of a new school year. And, just as with that other new year’s day, we get lots of prognostication about schools, teachers, and students in the coming twelve months.1
Most are not worth the bytes from which they’re constructed.
UNESCO recently released a 427-page report on the use of technology in education around the world called the 2023 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report: Technology in education: A tool on whose terms?
In it they don’t find many positive things to say about edtech.
Back when I worked on the instruction side of the overly-large school district, we tried to maintain a good relationship with the people in IT.
Even so, we were pretty sure that most of them really didn’t understand the people they were supposed to be supporting. That was especially true of the folks working on network security.
What is the cost of artificial intelligence?
I have a free account on ChatGPT but, as this episode from the Marketplace Tech podcast (and many other sources) remind us, “just because a service doesn’t charge users doesn’t mean it doesn’t have costs”.