A recent
article on the Chronicle of Higher Education website suggests that technology will not save/improve/enhance education without student motivation. That student motivation may have its origins in the intrinsic goals of the student, peer pressure from student colleagues or inspiration and support from instructors. I wrote a short piece some time ago (see page 8
here) which suggested the same thing: that the digital divide will be those who have access to ed tech vs those that have access to in-the-flesh instructors, with the ed tech students being the impoverished and those being taught in the physical presence of peers and teachers will be the advantaged. It also echoes what another suggested about the
history of educational revolutions: the revolutions never alter the fact that the educational enterprise requires hard work following on the heels of student motivation nurtured by instructors.
Resources
Cook P. 2014. This Will Revolutionize Education. YouTube.
Haave NC. 2010. Considering online learning technologies at CeLC 2010. The International Commons, 5(3): 8-9.
Toyama K. 2015. Why Technology Will Never Fix Education. The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 19).
