Ancestors

Written by Aurélien on 2025-01-02 at 23:20

Let's start the #edtech thread with some positive vibes before the critiques piles on:

Some links on the Polycorp Poly 1 computer developed in NZ:

• https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/poly1.htm

• http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/homepages/andrew/poly/Poly.htm

• https://web.archive.org/web/20060424190744/http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3645342a28,00.html

Discovered via https://www.ourfriendthe.computer/

[#]edtech #history

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Written by Aurélien on 2025-01-02 at 23:23

Some links on Plan Informatique pour Tous, the MO5 computers and the logo turtle that was in my elementary school.

• https://www.obsolete-tears.com/logo-et-sa-tortue-dossier-45.html

• https://www.epi.asso.fr/revue/37/b37p023.htm

[#]edtech #history

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Written by Aurélien on 2025-01-02 at 23:25

Some links on the french "Plan Tablettes"

• https://next.ink/6736/108057-quand-cour-comptes-etrille-plan-tablettes-francois-hollande/

• https://www.luipresident.fr/francois-hollande/engagement/tablettes-au-college-33985/

• https://www.lagazettedescommunes.com/595402/numerique-educatif-les-promesses-non-tenues-de-letat/

[#]edtech

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Toot

Written by Aurélien on 2025-01-02 at 23:29

Evidence of a potential, @jesperbalslev phd thesis:

The dissertation works with the thesis that producing evidence for the benefits of educational technology is methodologically and philosophically unreasonable. The thesis is examined by analyzing a corpus of white papers and politically commissioned evaluation reports spanning four decades, in order to map arguments, epistemic sources and how arguments are used to recommend political interventions

https://jesperbalslev.dk/evidence-of-a-potential-ph-d-thesis/

[#]edtech

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Descendants

Written by Aurélien on 2025-01-02 at 23:35

See also Morgan Ames' The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

http://morganya.org/charisma.html

Behind its promises, OLPC, [...] had a fundamentally flawed vision of who the computer was made for and what role technology should play in learning.

Ames reveals that the laptops were not only frustrating to use, easy to break, and hard to repair, they were designed for idealized younger versions of the developers themselves

[#]edtech #design #breakdowns

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Written by Aurélien on 2025-01-02 at 23:38

A bunch of related HCI refs on deployment failures :

• Baumer & Silberman (2011). When the implication is not to design (technology).

• Gaver, Bowers, Kerridge, Boucher & Jarvis (2009). Anatomy of a failure: how we knew when our design went wrong, and what we learned from it.

• Into the wild: challenges and opportunities for field trial methods.

• Cracks in the Success Narrative: Rethinking Failure in Design Research through a Retrospective Trioethnography

[#]design #hci #methods

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Written by Aurélien on 2025-01-03 at 11:11

Also by Morgan Ames : "Hackers, Computers, and Cooperation: A Critical History of Logo and Constructionist Learning"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3274287

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