Bryan Solberg

Graduate Student at Drake University and Future Elementary Teacher

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@PerlaTeach4 Many who worked from home during the pandemic want to continue staying home but their bosses want them back in the office. I usually side with the workers on this one, but you raise an interesting counterpoint - technology allows the workplace's invasion into home life.

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The pandemic provided the EdTech robber barons the perfect opportunity to present technology as a panacea that could cure our Covid-induced panic (and to introduce these tools without "us" questioning how they might lead to the larger purpose of privatization).

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#ed109 Evan Turiano's article explores how the ambitions of "disaster capitalists" can bear their fruit in times of crisis. https://t.co/oMJHapCzIv

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David Orr's "technological fundamentalism" (Shume, 2013): "tenacious belief in the assumed value of the explosive juggernaut of technology without questioning basic assumptions about how tools relate to larger purposes or prospects."

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@AmyTingstrom @jerridkruse I like how the quote positions students as scholars who peruse primary source material. I remember thinking in grade 3 that research was opening up the encyclopedia to absorb knowledge. It was a paradigm shift when I realized research originated from firsthand data accumulation.

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@BuellCelia Idk, maybe we’ll be able to convince students to multitask less because we can offer a more empathetic perspective.

I also read in my grad book that this sporadic attention tendency is more like how we behaved im hunter gatherer times. So maybe we’re returning to something old.

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“Multitasking decreases productivity, and heavy multitaskers are bad at multitasking,” I type as I look down from my YouTube video. #ed109 #CLT

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@MDrakegrad I couldn’t quite tell- the article said multitasking reduces efficiency for both tasks - does this mean that I do the tasks more slowly but I might still get both done together in less total time? Or does it mean that the total time will even be greater?

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@KaliMoran14 I wonder if administrators tend to over-value technological “improvements” when they seek to address inequities when in reality there is a much better way to address those inequalities? #ed109

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@Ms_AbigailRouse I wanted to know whether this was just on webpages or if it also applies to reading PDFs. If I’m reading a PDF, am I also reading in the cursory F pattern using which people quickly scroll through webpages?

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@PerlaTeach4 Yeah, this was one of the biggest head scratchers when I read it - why hasn’t this always been the role of field trips? By the time the field trip comes around, it always feels like a vacation detached from any rigorous instruction.

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Technology https://t.co/wdB7PLnJIg #bubblus

#ed109

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@jerridkruse @ColinCoulter10 @danielpfinney #ed109 Carr, p. 13: "...at some point, I found I could no longer write or revise anything on paper. I felt lost without the Delete key, the scrollbar, the cut and paste functions... In using the word processor, I had become something of a word processor myself."

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@danielpfinney Yah, awareness of bias feels like one of the most important things to teach students concerning tech literacy - looking into funding sources and trying to detect motivations.

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@MDrakegrad The Shallows, which I'm reading for the grad assignment, focuses on how many technologies, including the map, clock, and book literally rewired our brains (through neuroplasticity) just as the net is doing now. Understanding our neural wiring is important too for the classroom.

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@Ms_Millar_ I agree that understanding tech's impact on the world is especially important. The digital responsibility web site really hammered that in, where people should understand technotrash, cyberbullying, worker exploitation, and multitasking as results of technological development.

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Soltan: "you should consider what you want a potential employer or college admissions officer to glean about you from your online presence." Why not put the onus on the employers? Firing an employee for online posting is a major transgression of their freedom. #educ109

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@danielpfinney Oh I see, so there's this inevitable externality that kind of negates some of the positive health effects gained from eating healthier foods - now you're gonna have to deal with the consequences of climate change, which will likely inhibit food growth anyways.

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The Digital Responsibility site implies that tech literacy includes ethical considerations, but the solutions they propose to technotrash only focus on consumers. What room do we have as teachers to question sytemic problems when they might confront corporate interests? #ed109