Alive in the Swamp: Assessing digital innovations in education - 0 views
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As another Nesta report concludes, digital innovations have “put technology above teaching and excitement above evidence”1 that has resulted in an “undisciplined explosion of innovations.”2
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Innovation is for innovation’s sake, without adequate evidence of efficacy to establish impact on learning; technological investments have yet to focus their efforts on changing the education system.
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“Entrepreneurs find it more exciting and absorbing to design and build digital innovations than to grapple with a new pedagogy, not to mention the daunting task of addressing systemness policies and support for implementation.”7 Yet it is increasingly crucial to “grapple” with pedagogy and implementation systems, as technology without context have been shown to lack efficacy.
