Edtech Strategy Development Technologists have made modernity possible, and technology is a creation of modernity (Bray 2003). Education technology may be situated in modernity, but its purposes can differ, since participants are informed by a social context and spatial structures. Some assume that technology shapes and transforms education. To them, progress is linear and keeping …
Monthly archives: May 2025
A lost decade
I read last year (2024) that 5 new universities were being planned. With News 24 declaiming a graduate unemployment rate of 24%, I have wondered whether another handful of new institutions is the best way to spend our country’s limited resources. The StatsSA report in the tale of the two new universities shows that academics …
One wrong word….
This Easter, we had a lovely visit to the Midlands. We normally avoid travelling on a long weekend, but Mike, Kelly, and the gals were in South Africa for a wedding. So we left home at sparrows (4:30 a.m.) to beat the long weekend traffic, arrived on the meander at a very respectable hour and …