Curmudgeonliness aside, I appreciate your honest feedback! You make good points. My goal with this post was simply to share some videos that stimulate thought about education technology and how it can be used in an impactful way in the classroom. I certainly agree that they are not all making awe inspiring observations – few of these are going to change anyone’s world, but at the same time, some of them make some very good points and can certainly raise awareness.

Do you have any specific videos or articles or other resources that you can point us to that you feel are more effective at advocating integration technology in education?

And the video cited by VideoGuru2009 quotes the long-since debunked specious statistic about percentages of retention, which is a classic example of non-scholarship: there was never such a study; the neat evenly-rounded jumps of the numbers from one category to the next should be a red flag. While there is certainly a valid point to be made, that students will retain more when they are tasked to teach a skill as part of the learning process, this kind of bogus scientism does not help.

Altogether, the series of videos seems to me to serve to advance the myth of the digital native rather than to advocate for real integration of technology into education. The main point should be to empower students to be creators with technology rather than consumers of the technology products of others, and none of these videos makes that point.