Comments for Little EdTech, Big Mouth

Comment on Is This Thing Still On? by D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:10:34 +0000

Awesome. Congrats on the new human and the new role! Amazing. Can’t wait to see what you share here.

Comment on What’s The Plan? by Silvia Straka

Silvia Straka — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:20:32 +0000

Reading this almost a year later… So much that I loved in this, including this comment, which made me burst out laughing: “If I do travel, it’s to see my mum, not to sip lukewarm coffee while a man asks me a comment-not-a-question.”

I love the analysis, the clarifying of priorities and purpose, and the grounding in your own solid values base. I wished we had had more chance to work together while I was still at TRU.

Comment on What’s The Plan? by Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 19:57:31 +0000

I respect this stance so much as I have been riding a troublesome straddling my positive and beneficial conference past experiences (many of them in B.C.) and a unsettling reluctance/avoidance to “go back” to it which is just more my own issue.

In my own current org work I have been hearing frequently the words of people whom would never have or currently do not have the means to “be there”– and I have been committed to finding those “good hybrid” or ways to be part of/connected to these events from afar. I can’t say I have any great ideas, but I find trying to replicate the conference experience of presenting attending really falls short. I have had some bad hybrid, that just left me not wanting to try.

Shirley we can create something that is not just a skeuomorph of presenting in person done online.

Comment on “Pedagogy Before Technology” Is a Thought-Terminating Cliché by Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 07:14:02 +0000

I gotta say I like the “semantic stop-sign” version too, rather visual.

I’ve eye rolled this trope a long time, it just reeks of pedosnobbery.

The flavor I heard so much when I started was “Technology is just a tool” —- looks like I took a swipe at it when I was doing my Kamloops stint https://cogdogblog.com/2014/11/us-n-machines/

“Nice flowers, Claude but it’s just a brush” or “Interesting sound Jimi but it’s just a guitar”

Is it not more realistic and mutually constructive to work on a moving continuum of P and T?

Or, as they used to say in Mad Magazine, Stamp out and Abolish Redundancy (Hmm I thought I had some relevance but lost the track)

Comment on “Pedagogy Before Technology” Is a Thought-Terminating Cliché by Mark Sarvary

Mark Sarvary — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 04:50:53 +0000

Interesting discussion. I have a slightly different understanding of this cliche expression. If you are interested, i published it here https://www.funjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/june-15-e13.pdf?x36670

Comment on “Pedagogy Before Technology” Is a Thought-Terminating Cliché by Clint Lalonde

Clint Lalonde — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 04:39:54 +0000

“Thought-terminating cliche” = brilliant. As is the rest of this critique. In my experience, “pedagogy before technology” has always been used to try and kill any nuanced & critical discussions around technology – as if by uttering this magical phrase they can somehow put the technology genie back into the bottle and shut it away forever when the reality is they look like an ostrich burying their head in the sand.

Comment on In the Intervening Days by Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 04:08:45 +0000

No one can tell you how to do this—- I’m glad you are trying to stay on the writing pace.

I had grand plans of keeping a daily pace. Hah. I look back at my first blog years and I was doing like 2 or 3 a day, but then again they were more like long tweets. Or toots. Or…..

Anyhow you write I will read.

Comment on “Pedagogy Before Technology” Is a Thought-Terminating Cliché by Brenna

Brenna — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:24:33 +0000

In reply to Rebekah. Ok, so do you want to know where I learned this term originally? Amanda Montell's Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. GREAT read and also WEIRDLY RESONANT with some of my teaching and learning experiences.

Comment on “Pedagogy Before Technology” Is a Thought-Terminating Cliché by Rebekah

Rebekah — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:14:20 +0000

I’ve never heard of “thought-terminating cliches” before! It sounds a lot like the work I wanna do in regards to unpacking some of the “sacred stories” we carry around and are told in higher ed.

Comment on How Are You? by Brenna

Brenna — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:33:26 +0000

In reply to rebekah. I really like this distinction, Rebekah -- it's useful. Thank you.