Beyond Media and Method: A Connectivist View of Learning
Although the technologies have changed dramatically, the promise sounds familiar: give educators and learners better technology, and better learning outcomes will follow.
Dr. Maha Bali: Beyond Fear and Hype in Educational Technology
Dr. Maha Bali measures technology not by its novelty or power, but by its ability to foster connection, participation, and more equitable learning opportunities.
Run a Book Club, Not a Digital Library
A lesson from edtech’s early history (Weller, 2020) with immediate relevance today is a recurring failure across edtech’s evolution that corporations perpetuate: treating knowledge as a commodity to be shipped rather than an experience to be cultivated.
Beyond Explicit Knowledge: What Ed Tech History Teaches Us About Human Learning
Reading Weller’s (2020) history of educational technology, the two most compelling takeaways are: firstly, how the field repeatedly grapples with the exact same core tensions, and secondly, failing to recognize this is “a knowledge management problem” (Watson, 2026, para. 2).