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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 17:06:09 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Rich Felker
   • Mud Road

   @fredb @dalias Oh, and don’t forget Microsoft. I wonder if anyone surveyed how many kids were put off of tech by being introduced to computing with Microsoft Office in UK schools. That was part of the reason why we set up Code Club and why I was so heartbroken when one of the founders – and a very dear friend at the time – basically sold it out to Big Tech. Oh well, what doesn’t kill you and all that…

   • Mud Road (fredb@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 17:06:10 JST Mud Road

     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @aral #edtech has been captured since the early days of "free" Google and Apple's dominance of schools. The language used by teachers and administrators is telling, tech coaches are see as 'evangelists' for products and services. It's mostly about how to use a product or tool and rarely about what is being produced. And every few years a new saviour arrives. Ten years ago every child who didn't learn to code was going to be left behind. Now it's AI.