The Ed non-Tech (EnT) Podcast

Episode 77: Ain’t Got Me

MATT’S NOTES Welcome, one and most, to the final regular episode for this THIRD season of the EnT! Academic year 2024/25 has been one for the books… and not just geopolitically, either! This episode sees us talking about marking… and a whole host of associated issues! Please check it out, as per your preferences! https://youtu.be/WT-0cTBQsG4 I guess it (the end of the term) hasn’t really hit us yet! #ednontech 77 episodes in, and we’re just getting started! #ednontech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGSD-jWq6_s And that is it! Time, gentlemen! Gentlewomen! Gentlefolk! It’s time. Exams are over! Classes, too! Piles were created, eliminated, recreated, shifted into numerical and alphabeticized data formats… from rich to flat… from multimodal to binary! We’ve been given our orders, and boy did we march! I’m doing my best to stay general here! After the marking done, what else is there? For this itinerant educator fella… a repositioning, of sorts! From one rich, significant context to another! Severance will ease the transition! My point remains: it is better to be an educator in Canada than anywhere else in the world! It’s my dumb luck to be of this place! And especially the Maritime place(s)! What’s to stop anyone with a desire to self-improve to take that 10,000 hours and turn it into a thing for life… beyond the commercial applications! Writing, for me, is life stuff. It’s DNA stuff. It’s what I think about, and it’s how I think! It’s well prior to the educational endeavor chronologically, mentally, and spiritually! Teaching is a thing of the spirit. So is music. So is writing. I’d like to think we try to give that creative spirit, writ large, some space and some exploration through this show and our various and sundry and associated and non-mutually-exclusive other endeavors! This is all to say: education is freedom! We are pursuing this with commitment and conviction! And we are grateful to you, or anyone, who takes an interest in this for any reason whatsoever! We’ll see you again in the fall! [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/33n3.gif] [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfDEon6rOw9VOFUxFqtCt_x3S83961tHddUo1DCvJ71bc4FfEDKnt-3OGOUASQzD87DVDcLMeMy2eQll3DGigtt8TTQRShWvOvaqfYg0iaTNjENi7zFdKDP4zdnj3vOfooN3zQv?key=zdWA9SYHUfKL8TYuMaANKmeR] DOUG’S NOTES MARKING Out of the discussion of the last fifteen years we find one point of absolute agreement, namely, that we should overhaul thoroughly the methods by which we measure the outcome of instruction in the public schools.  Rugg, H. O. (1918). Teachers’ marks and the reconstruction of the marking system. The Elementary School Journal, 18(9), 701-719. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdPFGAf9tCvFPnXzeF1eguLXOuIJyZ39FIznAGlVQyS9zPbOAQ5SDcZ4w000SBOqSsuvbhUBkUhvBmJ0SYxrjpQKthk22HUnb-Db4h0I7hgLdF-sn83l-6TmbIly_zAfaoKCWh5ig?key=zdWA9SYHUfKL8TYuMaANKmeR] Secondary school teachers reported an average workload of 47.6 hours per week, made up of: * 20 hours of face-to-face teaching; * 11–12 hours of marking, planning and preparing; and * 7 hours of administration  A number of teachers highlighted the cyclical nature of their marking workload, confirming that the hours spent on marking increased at certain peak points during the school year such as assessment, examination and reporting periods. As one teacher remarked, ‘These times change throughout the year. During musical time, reporting periods, senior marking, these hours double if not triple’ Manuel, J., Carter, D., & Dutton, J. (2018). ‘As much as I love being in the classroom…’: Understanding secondary English teachers’ workload. English in Australia, 53(3), 5-22. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXe173Y4xHO1ovKxMKZrK56ME3tu9cSoDG8RSzQd3HgL5FKnDPDwwTQUJHHDSPhUvuenWeLfcIvOZUs0QpamzYwLRcyFSuFclyF8U25tAtzVFHaxGTV-APbcPSQgv_5AXmO3ed52qQ?key=zdWA9SYHUfKL8TYuMaANKmeR] Without considering the 21st Century teaching and learning activities, there are factors that are often left out in teaching workload calculation. Among of those factors are:  * (i) courses regularly and repeatedly taught over time,  * (ii) the evaluation types,  * (iii) pedagogical methods employed,  * (iv) the amount of assistance available from a teaching assistant(s)/ laboratory demo assistant,  * (v) the coordination of industrial training and final year projects course,  * (vi) practicum, especially for counseling and nursing course,  * (vii) the course coordinator load,  * (viii) individual private lesson, i.e. music lesson. … the assessment of student learning was the single most important contributor to the academic workload which taking on average 2.5 hours per student per semester. Ujir, H., Salleh, S. F., Marzuki, A. S. W., Hashim, H. F., & Alias, A. A. (2020). Teaching Workload in 21st Century Higher Education Learning Setting. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 9(1), 221-227. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdwWmYXVK9eA_PzXyUB0BpUQNbL_7DyNLMWKNfo5brKyMEo0MMEHgqTcWiVrd2rbhHIL17odfMKejHW4WqFUONX9sv0aoumm03I0G4YecNCWI6W_WyqdIxuY1MwMQKT1pXxnllefQ?key=zdWA9SYHUfKL8TYuMaANKmeR] Overall pupil attainment and progress remained constant or improved. In some cases (such as certain alternative marking and feedback strategies), reducing workload outside of class may in fact improve attainment.  Churches, R. (2020). Supporting teachers through the school workload reduction toolkit. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5f08d616d3bf7f0416418520/Supporting_teachers_through_the_school_workload_reduction_toolkit_March_2020.pdf [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5f08d616d3bf7f0416418520/Supporting_teachers_through_the_school_workload_reduction_toolkit_March_2020.pdf] [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXenNjYmlWc1OmAxpManMBTa9BAXnz0qTiUGnB8gY3_Qea5gKduenDg8l-wUD2N3GO2q9p7vGrKmybUoUagIKOnToPD4d1gkg7m-OBBMNVIE-YsvhtBXtkOAqcfCpAlfPn5tqqK8Aw?key=zdWA9SYHUfKL8TYuMaANKmeR] Discussion categories: * The emotional labour of marking * The marker * Mapping “My marking Life” to student achievement emotions * Enjoyment * Hope/Hopelessness * Pride * Anger * Anxiety * Shame * Relief * Boredom With ever increasing student focused assessment there is an increase in required marking time, which has not been reflected in workload adjustments and may not be economically achievable for universities. Henderson-Brooks, C. (2021). Marking as emotional labour: A discussion of the affective impact of assessment feedback on enabling educators. Access: Critical explorations of equity in higher education, 8(1), 110-121. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXf38v-9Yl9BLH51qX9PjbeekCPquVjlJeoGoO5bL4fVIup7ZlZRYTnuNtEVVyNZHgvb_y2tOqeMQ_NbRAor6NyBOz952IWDgQD2pip55cfCik-B98H0Gv_ZMrD_jsXYn-0bvjDQyw?key=zdWA9SYHUfKL8TYuMaANKmeR] WORD OF THE PODCAST Marking QUESTION OF THE PODCAST  How can educators complete cyclical grading with less of an emotional toll? PHRASE OF THE PODCAST It puts you in a false sense of competition with those around you & Grading is the pez dispenser of education [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/zx_Jail_Break_1987_Konami_screenshot.gif] WE ARE GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE WHO EVER CHECKS OUT EVEN A SMIDGEN OF THIS HERE ED NON-TECH! THANKS A KAJILLION AND A HALF! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnIRY_NPphM [http://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/giphy.gif]

Episode 76: Übermensch

MATT’S NOTES Hey there, hither and yon! We are most def gratitudinal (sic) to see you here and now! In this episode, Doug went way in the way back machine and brought out a topic and possibly the start of his part of these notes back in fall of 2023! We’re always trying to fully use what we create on the way to these notes, and it’s always great to be able to go back and rescue topics and ideas that had perhaps fallen to the side! Folks, we are talking loss & grief in education… and it does get heavy! https://youtu.be/quYUPX2M-Rw We are committed to these discussions! And we are excruciatingly handsome! #ednontech Unsurprisingly, we have some exceedingly handsome audio hereabouts as well! #ednontech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tuV4drxVXc&t=1s Listen, I’d be remiss here not to observe the following that have been shaping my viewpoint on certain aspects of how communication works in our new Trumpian, post-social media shitshow that is passing for culture! The Pope died on Easter Sunday the day after meeting a senior executive from one of the most chaotic, problematic US administrations in modern history. This same Easter weekend has also coincided with the normal 4/20 stoner fest to celebrate legal weed. As far as significant rock things go, we are also this same weekend with Easter, the death of the Pope, and 4/20… today, as I write this, Easter Monday of 2025… is the fifth anniversary of the passing of Prince, the legendary genius generational musician and cultural icon… and, at bottom, basketball-loving Minneapolis homebody! They’re a type, actually! It’s also Iggy Pop’s birthday today, cause why the fuck not? In the times of MAGA and the complete annihilation of economic, cultural, and political norms… people are feeling stressed, angry, exhausted! I know this because I’ve made an intentional effort to reach an American audience for podcasts and other media offerings vis-à-vis the “adding friend” feature on FB! Here are the points that I made this afternoon when somebody reached out! It seems best to share these verbatim! Honestly, I think this says it all! [http://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/151d17f65c532a8cc796a4eab5d03221.gif] [http://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/dPUN2q-1.gif] I have a PhD in a thing called educational technology! I teach English at a college here in Alberta! I’ve been doing somewhat of a multifaceted social media experiment. I’m using 5 different social media platforms with pretty specific purposes in order to amplify content that I produce related to: an education podcast, a music podcast, a literary interview series, plus bespoke indie media production. As of 6 weeks ago, I had around 115 followers… a normal, selective amount for a middle-aged separated educator guy. Then, after your president fucked over the world economy, I decided to start poking back through very specific and disruptive techniques equating to spam, but with advanced cultural and technological messaging behind it. Cause you know, 4 university degrees, temporary English contract, away from my kids, single, basic bored sober dude. I’m trying to be as transparent as possible to anyone who asks. I have a very legitimate 20 year practice as PhD level educator in the language, learning technology, training and development spaces. I have seen MAGA use very basic features and approaches through Meta tools, largely FB and IG but also Whatsapp. The Democrats are utterly fucked at running counter messaging. I am a basic overeducated Canadian dude whose Grandfather fought in Korea alongside American troops in the first conflict against Soviet-Russian backed forces following WWII. I take this bullshit from your fucked up bigoted dictator personally. I am using very basic counter propaganda techniques to put out messaging which is educationally and cultural valid, while also causing the other side to scramble with my advanced writing skills and my basic ability to use media creation tools and web marketing techniques to disrupt some very bogus and lazy narratives being propagated by very very lazy, mid, mostly male, mostly white privileged assholes Thanks for attending my TED talk, lol And thanks, as ever, to Doug for being such an outstanding partner in this endeavor! It would literally not exist in any way, shape or form without him! Thanks, pal! And thanks to all/any new pals checking out this podcast and associated media and notes for the first time! [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/vintage-halloween-gif-goth-spooky-1950s.webp] DOUG’S NOTES LOSS & GRIEF IN EDUCATION The use of the arts and humanities, as a teaching and learning strategy, is achievable through the bringing together of different art and media by a skilled educator to facilitate reflection.   Johnson, A., & Jackson, D. (2005). Using the arts and humanities to support learning about loss, suffering and death. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 11(8), 438-443. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfsBGuLZpLXUvD8BLpmL7eYVdAaoTTA979_HX3Gll7ntD4RJ6V48OaFP1oTGi3ywaHAvfnWGPhNixbx48Cy_Dxa0Jtep_eSVkTSolhJwMz_qwr_qjZMc9fubsLyORjzG4mP5YLywf6zI6nVSLwuTVePkAgt?key=TyCBgtmctBK4fR-xsLeg5Q] There is minimal research relating to grief and loss education in the field of counseling or other helping professions. … a grief and loss course specific to death and dying concerns:  * increased openness to constructs of death,  * a greater understanding of their own beliefs regarding death, and  * a reduction in their fear of death. Doughty Horn, E. A., Crews, J. A., & Harrawood, L. K. (2013). Grief and loss education: Recommendations for curricular inclusion. Counselor Education and Supervision, 52(1), 70-80. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcBPLT6giEJ0tj41p6c1smW1JA5_zdv9bkzLUFNSs90DI5AQ2X0kR6Z9XKqC5KL3Va6BsVXAwsolycN3n-6NCGLqFdpFMWOzY9BMm9IhENeSwKqUno-kfe4lE7k-k7LfcjnjGNzsLOALmjXM-ljTSE3aJ8W?key=TyCBgtmctBK4fR-xsLeg5Q] Loss, impermanence, and death are facts of life difficult to face squarely. Our own mortality and that of loved ones feels painful and threatening, the mortality of the biosphere unthinkable.  Consequently, we do our best to dodge these thoughts, and the current globalizing culture supports and colludes in our evasiveness.  Affifi, R., & Christie, B. (2019). Facing loss: Pedagogy of death. Environmental Education Research, 25(8), 1143-1157. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfrGhAFTWZJY8-9d_6i-xBDAbLi-N5G533uaS8I7bXaupx4NHRra-S7QN-TBUQABdLmWaH4hXAPtQQvmJA5vw_mizAonxrrX8tSp3BWCCiKJhTiNdqTPwGJYxdwbMJbwX2fpAaEK6Fgusme_CC2D3GJ3N8L?key=TyCBgtmctBK4fR-xsLeg5Q] WORD OF THE PODCAST Loss QUESTION OF THE PODCAST How can education help with the loss of important people in educator lives? PHRASE OF THE PODCAST Seneca knows what he is talking about. [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8ca056bc7e4a4865d86bf8ef72aa756b.gif] THANKS FOR SPENDING THIS TIME WITH US! IT GOT HEAVY, BUT WE GOT THROUGH IT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq1zS9Rm9-s [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/tumblr_mv0ynfZgVR1rdfgw4o1_500.gif]

Episode 75: (I’m the) Repo Man

MATT’S NOTES Hey there! Welcome one and most to this uh… dual-purpose episode of the EnT, falling as the recording session did… on both Easter Sunday and also 4/20! To get full stunt production value out of this convergence, we are releasing two different but in some ways thematically overlapping issues within a short timespan! First up is our chat on repossessing education from the throes of bad jargon and the accompanying lack of attendant conceptual clarity! https://youtu.be/Vdq3vxGVMQc Video capable, if you’ve gumption enough! #ednontech We’ve got your (semantic) back, Jack! #ednontech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nPEM5d-MtQ To my mind, any conversation that I get to have with Dr. Doug Reid is pure gold! Let’s be really real here for a moment! Due to the incessant deluge of chaos from certain significant geopolitical entities, it’s hard to believe how much things have changed in many of our lives since the beginning of 2025! I’ve said for months now that mental health and wellness are vital! You have to be proactive, in my opinion! Those who have observed my recent pivot in terms of my very specific and intentional uses of Meta apps, particularly Facebook, may have some questions at what some of the actions there signify on a wider scale! Let me say first that anyone who has asked directly has received a proper explanation! These parties include my mom, my dad, my students at Keyano, my kids, my best friend, and my podcasting partners! In full transparency, I am engaged in a valid form of peaceful protest of what I perceive as propagandistic tactics and approaches by various state and non-state entities by emulating social media’s algorithmic content sharing practices and exponential reach through a highly porous and ad hoc social networking “outer layer”. This porous outer layer of social interactions is actually a small subset of how Meta makes money off secondary and tertiary marketing of aggregated heaps of mega-data to various other commercial and noncommercial enterprises and entities and actors. As such… I’m essentially using the features of Facebook to offer a critique of the platform and problems associated with rendering significant cultural issues down to clickbait in between highly problematic ads, with a user ecosystem rife with malicious, dishonest user accounts… and a great, great many bots! At some point, a wider and deeper explanation of the mindset that led to this, the practices, and lessons learned may be warranted! At the moment it is simply interesting to discover new areas of practice within the ed tech endeavor which I have been participating in for nearly twenty years! Thanks as ever to Doug for a compelling topic and a great conversation! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDtHjksVNw For my educational non-dollar, I’d strongly recommend this interview with one of the greatest actors of his, or any, generation! [http://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/tumblr_9365c558dfb977a1e5ca8d85b7446cf3_d323bc91_500.gif] DOUG’S NOTES “REPOSSESSING THE JARGON” What is the youthful mind curious about – at least till we deaden it with our preposterous schools – but about these very marvels of creation which we do our best to spoil for him with our learned jargon and our grammar rules? Atkinson, W. (1872). Primary School Education. (2), 46-46. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXc0VjiQDJabQEP6ajrgYiTIdMVMu8ac8nwsB7sFhJTyPWwOnTFLNUs_ychzlJ7wmuMYSqNkaNkLd4jUmNgw1m7eMcCz7Xu-TT__trC73fr2PjvrmEZhmQyuxN71U4SxvfgJtfXnow?key=4bcbfuA7vEz8HobKnrQE5viT] The use of jargon in education is a problem where it is not used consistently. This inconsistency limits how people within the profession communicate with each other and also how those professionals communicate with others. Hollingshead, S. L. P. (1994). The use of jargon in education, 1920-1990. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This book is good reading when you have just a few flee moments and when you have had a conversation with a teacher and are not quite sure about the terminology mentioned. Bottom line: Essential. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeZ2Yo4ORsS7dtnlD4lsOR6pmaqy1Gef8lrIDU7ZTl-3-RSBIz1HOPSsoCTna3k0D-b26Q3JwoD3ztztL0viCfQ0YURQi5ABp4pErsV2bEWPxHBFBhGm69vmznGzKrMksL7BtQS4Q?key=4bcbfuA7vEz8HobKnrQE5viT] Jargon book is a terminology book through which preservice language teachers keep significant terms and methods that are related to language teaching. Özkan, Y. (2018). Fostering reflectivity through jargon books in a teacher education context. PASAA, 55(1), 32-56. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeXlqDp8zrxUf7O2nPwogi3QnvNMw4sSECbSetoT9ChuMY_lfo5ZgQkqJquVNH1oRFxBwRYsal8eFkRrdpwLStcgzIvhuMllECiWNIUTZ8Aof9lduXeLFgiMPVRH7i_pWkaJ2DMRg?key=4bcbfuA7vEz8HobKnrQE5viT] … the use of jargon may be confusing to individuals without similar training, which could be a hindrance to successful interdisciplinary work, such as in consultation with schoolteachers. Martin, S. (2022). The Effects of Jargon on School-Based Consultation (Master’s thesis, University of Kansas). [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdBrf7pmOWJhFLv_adfRxrioJcRmEFPZK6h6xeWwDrntpMB45_IV3eViMGkutg4zm7Ejon63qBieVdj7sZszbAuPuBKBEpl2gLh_4qFSYpkZxKbDeh78oeAJhzW8MBnes58qNha?key=4bcbfuA7vEz8HobKnrQE5viT] https://www.sciencegeek.net/lingo.html [https://www.sciencegeek.net/lingo.html] [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdlwFj0xhnOOYgWG-J9LUK04G4KHFPYazuoJex7g6JRn3kHCktodOIXl0MsB0LZ6ItZuV20OV80JXhTWu9PkO-oiX_OZIr2terni5_wfNSN6Vz2cdTGPRWMRAOrZp9lP8R5lyVavA?key=4bcbfuA7vEz8HobKnrQE5viT] [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdZskYUj4aAyP9h20k14_2d7Op8pQP2OM7daieUcTmUBhcbU_ME9vJ-6i-FdE6mxW5fJ5r276AFtcossFRw5PALuDKqA0r-fsUZwHqt36_PNYyAgbA_dwpjt6P_P2HG6liGwdl3OQ?key=4bcbfuA7vEz8HobKnrQE5viT] [http://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/vintage-car-crash.webp] WORD OF THE PODCAST Jargon QUESTION OF THE PODCAST How can educators engage with jargon that welcomes others to this discipline? PHRASE OF THE PODCAST MCAA – Make competence awesome again [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/uofYiJOORyjSnrh8Fing_Robbery-Brick-No-Go.gif] THANKS FOR JOINING US ON THIS RIDEALONG! YOUR SAFETY IS AMONG OUR CONCERNS! https://youtu.be/KgAuIxj5-cw?si=d0X6v2d3_sNLk1z0

Episode 74: True Colours

MATT’S NOTES Thanks for joining us here at the EnT! We take a deep dive into personnel and/or personal factors associated with the educational endeavour, writ large! We hope you will be as stoked about this as we are! https://youtu.be/2J6aqFrINZo When we started all we had were our handsomeness, talent, and experience! Then we started to figure out what we’re doing! #ednontech It’s yours to keep, this audio, if you want! #ednontech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPn0KFlbqX8 Here we are! In the past 28 or so hours since recording this episode, we’ve put 3 new episodes of the new Writers on Writing series of interviews associated with my role as an English prof! Plus putting together this here EnT! As such, I’ve precious, precious little to add here… as I’m teaching in a few hours and have a lecture still to prepare! I am grateful to Doug for this topic! Personality, personal integrity, accountability, and other considerations of the person as a whole are significant to the educational endeavour, generally! Looking back on it now, I see that the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model and particularly the construct of social presence— which I studied as part of my University of Calgary Education Doctorate (Ed.D)— informs my perspective on much of what we discussed today! And, further, the case study research method as well! Given these outstanding areas yet to be fully explored, I’m hopeful we’ll be able to revisit this topic again before too long… and possibly further explorations may be warranted! My reading list at the moment is veering towards the texts I’m teaching for my classes this term, and also lately a collection of Nietzsche’s essays On Truth and Untruth… I am finding this somewhat bracing, and even strengthening in the… uh… rather unique economic and political times we find ourselves entangled in! And of course, taking into account the effects these can have on a person’s general sense of wellness and wellbeing! As such, my real last word for now is: take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Make adjustments to your plans or activities as needed. Wellness first, in all things, pals! Much appreciation and respect to Doug for leading this stellar convo! [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/489237460_122201923040104138_900577403870741850_n.jpg] DOUG’S NOTES PERSONNEL CASE STUDIES IN EDTECH Note that these posts are NOT meant to be deeply researched historical accounts, but how I saw and encountered developments in my personal life. https://www.tonybates.ca/2025/03/25/a-personal-history-29-strategic-planning-for-e-learning-a-personal-case-study/ Trying to develop a vision for teaching and learning * make the case for e-learning, * demonstrate examples from within and from outside SAIT of quality e-learning, * get some idea of where instructors saw the future going in their respective disciplines * get them to suggest a ‘vision’ for how they could teach with technology, and * discuss the needs and concerns of the instructors. Bates, Tony. “Https://www.tonybates.ca/2025/03/25/a-personal-history-29-strategic-planning-for-e-learning-a-personal-case-study/.” Online Learning and Distance Education Resources, edited by Tony Bates, Contact North, 25 Mar. 2025, www.tonybates.ca/2025/03/25/a-personal-history-29-strategic-planning-for-e-learning-a-personal-case-study/ [http://www.tonybates.ca/2025/03/25/a-personal-history-29-strategic-planning-for-e-learning-a-personal-case-study/] [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image-1.png] Recently, theorists have argued for a cultural dimension in the design process and the need to provide culturally sensitive learning environments. [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image.png] McLoughlin, C., & Oliver, R. (2000). Designing learning environments for cultural inclusivity: A case study of indigenous online learning at tertiary level. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 16(1). [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image-2-970x1024.png] Edtech is also an area to which people come from other disciplines, so there is no shared set of concepts or history. This can be liberating but also infuriating. I’m sure I was not alone in emitting the occasional sigh when during the MOOC rush of 2012, so many “new” discoveries about online learning were reported—discoveries that were already tired concepts in the edtech field. Weller, M. (2018). Twenty years of EdTech. Educause Review Online, 53(4), 34-48. [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image-3.png] “But government rarely acts on the basis of need, want, fact, or logic.” Teillet, J. (2019). The North-West is our Mother: The story of Louis Riel’s people, the Métis Nation. HarperCollins. [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image-4.png] In this special issue, “A New Era for Educational Technology: Opportunities and Conversations,” we invited eight teams to share insights from their research on innovative uses of educational technologies. As we hope you will see throughout this issue, these papers address crucial and interconnected issues and develop shared insight into EdTech. We hope that this special issue sparks further conversation among researchers, educators, policymakers, and EdTech developers regarding the growing and diversifying roles of educational technology at all levels. Kim, D., Borowiec, K., & Wortham, S. (2024). A New Era in EdTech: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities. ECNU Review of Education, 7(2), 252-257. [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfe5i822F-Cfqm9GkxfNKHB4ggCLXrPfLjo7FUcufjyivXUcFM1jBftaZpack0QBkVQrDJUTvoE4xekw2t55Xnk779MoTCAK5UvK0vtxWU-cwjSs17Odi_g2LLm7h5glpymOVTA?key=Ptkr-WJbi2RiX8VBGaBO30qz] Join us as we delve into these subjects and more, sharing our perspectives and experiences along the way. https://oyos.ca/ENT/ [https://oyos.ca/ENT/] Please visit the Ed non-Tech Sandbox for examples, experiments, memes, and other ephemera discussed during the podcast! Stranach, Matt, and Doug Reid. “Conversations about education, technology, and culture.” #Ed non-Tech (EnT) Podcast, edited by Matt Stranach, 506 Consulting NB, 22 Mar. 2025, analogue-trope.ca/podcast/ [http://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/]. [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/488910445_122201849198104138_2765047667397231357_n.jpg] WORD OF THE PODCAST Narrative QUESTION OF THE PODCAST How can the personal narratives of educators help inform how we move forward? PHRASE OF THE PODCAST Emitted an occasional sigh [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/220115185803-blanket-octopus-orig-thumb-2-1024x576.jpg] THANKS A BUNCH FOR CHECKING THIS ENT OUT! IT MEANS A LOT TO US! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2lFsV2EPjU

Episode 73: Tear Down the Town

MATT’S NOTES Welcome to the EnT on disruption in education! This is the first time we’ve addressed this full-on, somehow! Please join us! https://youtu.be/yiqhiyFNyfk This video widget isn’t going to click itself! Or is it? #ednontech Sound, meet radness! #Ednontech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G-F7ZkVSbE These are the weeks where the sun is well and truly out! We are well and truly into the torrents of spring, despite all the grimness of *ahem* certain GEOPOLITICAL GOINGS-ON (Editor: Easy now, fella). I, myself, personally, and speaking only, solely, individually on my own behalf could stand somewhat LESS disruption across the board, generally! As much as the English teacher in me abhors using a negative statement to frame a point, it’s perfectly true to say: I wish things would stop bumping the fuck around so much, generally! Societal disruption is, effectively, the new norm! These are the headwinds we are navigating as a society! This when the mental fortress Marcus writes of becomes paramount! You step into your calm place. You find your few simple doctrines. You find perfect calm. You return to the world. This is what Stoicism provides me, particularly through Marcus, but the other writers are all there too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stmdmpXgYH0 My experience is that kindness, care, mindfulness, respect for students’ lives as a whole all set the preconditions for successful learning. Ideally the class will be an island of calm, of sorts. The Stoics have a Greek word: εὐδαιμονία; Eudaimonia which I am always after and which I try as much as I can to encourage in others… in the Stoic sense, rather than the Greek colloquial, of perfect calm from being untroubled. Untroubledness (new word alert!) is something I’ve come to greatly value over the years and weeks and hours and decades, particularly in middle age! As such, I would like to propose that wellness, self-care, looking out for yourselves and those around you proactively… can all be considered disruptive acts! Inasmuch as the current public spaces are designed in format and messaging to flatten and trivialize anything with a whiff of nuance or emotional resonance! I could go on! I have! I will! But not here, and not now! Thanks as ever to Doug for being such a rad friend and collaborator! Thanks to you(s) for checking out this here EnT! [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/patriot-storm.gif] DOUG’S NOTES DISRUPTION: TECH’S IMPACT ON EDUCATION Some countries have governmental problems in allowing the import of transistors or radios for use by the populace. Some characteristics and uses of radio identified in the review include: 1. The ability to present students with events as they happen. Radio can be combined with visual elements to create an emotional impact which may heighten the effectiveness of instruction. 2. Radio provides listeners with a sense of involvement and allows the listener to hear authorities or programs that are beyond the scope of the typical school system. 3. Radio may be used jointly with other media such as television. Multiplexing offers the opportunity to use single-image facsimile transmission or the use of electrowriters. 4. Radio is capable of copying almost all educational projection that television can do, and at substantial lower production and reception costs. 5. Other services offered include; in-service teacher training, continuing professional education, community service, health and vocational education, etc. In fact, radio has been shown to be as effective as “conventional methods.” Grise Jr, P. J. (1974). Educational Radio: A Review of the Literature. [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-1.png] I’m not sure we always notice: sometimes when mainstreaming happens we don’t recognise it. When did e-learning become part of the fabric of education? —Amber Thomas [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-2.png] van Mourik Broekman, P., Hall, G., Byfield, T., Hides, S., & Worthington, S. (2014). Open education: A study in disruption. Rowman & Littlefield. [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Capture.png] Crisis requires society to renew itself, albeit in a disruptive way. This sudden change has required universities to evolve toward online teaching in record time, implementing and adapting the technological resources available and involving professors and researchers who lack innate technological capacities for online teaching. The university system must be able to provide quality education in a scenario of digital transformation, disruptive technological innovation, and accelerated change in the educational framework. García-Morales, V. J., Garrido-Moreno, A., & Martín-Rojas, R. (2021). The transformation of higher education after the COVID disruption: Emerging challenges in an online learning scenario. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 616059. [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Capture-1.png] … wars disrupt the educational process making it harder for the population in schooling age to achieve the desired level of education. Ichino, A., & Winter-Ebmer, R. (2004). The long-run educational cost of World War II. Journal of Labor Economics, 22(1), 57-87. [http://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/lava2.webp] The past century witnessed a dramatic expansion of mass education (Boli et al. 1985, Meyer et al. 1992a). Yet, the expansion of educational opportunities has not been accompanied by the corresponding expansion of equality of educational opportunities. The reliance on exogenous, episodic periods of crisis or subsequent transformative adaptation does not leave much room for the agency in the discussion of change. Toubeau, S. The Politics of Educational Reform in Great Britain (1945-2010). The process and implementation policy change and its consequence for educational inequality. MIROSLAV BEBLAVÝ AND MARCELA VESELKOVÁ, 116. [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Sequence-02_3.gif] TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY * Printing text * Printing images * Chalk & slate * Ready access to paper * Pencils / pencil sharpeners * Radio * TV * Photocopier * Movies * Mimeograph machines (Gestetener) * Filmstrips * Slide rules * Calculators * Computers * Software (word processing, spreadsheets, etc) * World Wide Web * Mobile devices * Generative AI: Large Language Models ED TECH SPECIFICS * Take home kits * Online learning * Learning Management Systems * Open learning * Open Educational Resources * MOOC SOCIETAL CHANGES * Resource availability * ??? [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/original-70f1e3e7fcd86332612d0aaedb2c975d.gif] ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Radio Education [https://radioeducation.saooti.org/main/pub/productors?productor=60795760-e9a7-4be3-935a-6317b3dd18e0] RAC Youth Education program [https://www.rac.ca/youth-education-program/] Educational Broadcasting [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/educational-broadcasting] voicEd Radio [https://voiced.ca/] [https://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9769493_orig.gif] WORD OF THE PODCAST Disrupt QUESTION OF THE PODCAST The AI disruption to education is just one in a long list of edtech impacts on education. How do you think we can weather this storm of change this time? PHRASE OF THE PODCAST When that has been thwarted, you can not rebuild that lost trust. [http://analogue-trope.ca/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1466430666-firenado.gif] THANKS A KAJILLION-AND-A-HALF FOR VISITING THIS ENT! WE MOSTLY APPRECIATE YOU’SE!