My kid once wrote out, in cursive (bless him), “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement”. I have no idea where he got those words from, but he got his sense of humour from me though because then he said: “Cursive. The word f**k would look really nice in cursive…hehe get it mom?” The lines on the paper are faded from exposure to daylight as it sits in my mom’s old typewriter staring back at me with lovely juxtaposition.

The F word could also be “freedom”, the freedom to write whatever your heart desires. Alas, Weller (2020) emphasized how important blogging was in the canons of ed tech and continue to be till this day. A juxtaposition which Weller (2020) pointed out was that of the “academic blogger” (p. 71) “negotiat[ing] two worlds simultaneously” (p. 70), carefully balancing output on both mediums for different but similar reasons.

The F word could also be “forget”, as blogger Watters (2020) urged us to not forget those in the industry who have made mistakes only to return in the guise of educational experts. I sat in a meeting just today where AI was the topic and someone said the bad word: Proctorio! It truly sounds like something a certain wizard would say, but it left a sick feeling in my stomach as I thought of Watters (2020) warning that it “has demonstrated again and again and again and again and again and again that it holds students and staff in deep distain”.

So, I think it’s pretty safe to say that both Weller and Watters would agree that educational justice would also look really nice in cursive.       

Watters, A. (Nov, 2020). What Happens When Ed Tech Forgets: Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations. Hack Education: The History of the Future of Education.

Weller, M. (2020). 25 years of ed tech. Athabasca University Press. https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993050.01