Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes

Contents:
1. The Wrong Relationship Between Technology and Teachers: Complementing in an Ecosystem Versus Replacing in a Hierarchy
An Ecosystem, Not a Hierarchy: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Teachers and Technology
Technology and Teachers in a Learning Ecosystem: What Are Their Niches?
Constructing a Learning Ecosystem: What Does It Look Like?
2. The Wrong Application: Technology as Tools for Consumption Versus Tools for Creating and Producing
The First Approach: Technology as a Tool for Consumption
Constructivism: Constructing by Creating and Producing
Wikipedia: A Mass Project of Creating and Making
Digital Stories, Twitters, Blogs, Videos and Robots: New Genres of Creating and Making
Diverse Needs as Creators and Makers
3. The Wrong Expectation: Technology to Raise Test Scores Versus Technology to Provide Better Education
Can Technology Boost Test Scores? Don't Let the Wrong Question Guide Our Technology Use
Contents note continued: Providing Better Education: The Real Value of Educational Technology
4. The Wrong Assumptions: Technology as Curriculum Versus Digital Competence
The Wrong Assumptions: Technology as Curriculum / Instruction
What Is Digital Citizenship?
Developing Digital Citizenship Through the Use of Digital Technology
5. The Wrong Technology Implementation: Top Down Versus Bottom Up
Two Technology Paradoxes
Before 3 p.m. Model
After 3 p.m. Model
Before 3 p.m. Versus After 3 p.m.: What Are the Differences?
Alternative Ways to Implement Technology
Conclusion
6. Making It Right: Reimagining Education in the Second Machine Age
The Need for Reimagining Education
Reimagining the How: Pedagogy
Reimagining the Teacher-Machine Relationship
Summary