Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

Yesterday on the plane I caught up with this rant…

http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/

I’m always excited to find a listing of “new” technologies; however, I’m taking this list to “task” for another reason. Where is the “pedagogical innovation with new technology” award? In other words, it’s one thing to make these tools (and obviously part of the criteria on how/why they are the most innovative is because of their social impact); however, it feels like the vast majority of pedagogical technologies almost always develop for an “other” reason first. So are we the next step? How might these “new” and “innovative” technologies better facilitate teaching and learning? And since this is a review list hosted/published by MIT…tisk, tisk!