I'm looking ahead this week to Digital Learning Day on February 6th. It's a day supported by a diverse set of educators and institutional partners, designed to celebrate the possibilities of digital technologies and learning.
It should also, I think, be a day for asking tough questions and reflecting about our limited progress in using technology to enrich schooling. The Web is full of truly extraordinary exemplar projects demonstrating powerful applications of technology in learning settings, where students collaborate across cultures, solve meaningful problems, and rehearse for a networked world. But as extraordinary as the exemplars are, in most cases teachers use technology to extend existing practices, and the limited cases where technology fosters innovation disproportionately benefit affluent students.
So in the spirit of exciting potential and disappointing progress, I offer some questions for us to reflect on:
