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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Edu-Tech Grift
AI is here to save education—just sign here, wire the funds, and forget the children.
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The Gospel According to Andreessen
Silicon Valley has embraced a quasi-religious narrative of technological determinism, complete with its own eschatology, moral framework, and conversion…
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Must We Surrender Education to Technology?
The classroom, once the sacred domain of the teacher, is now a shrine to digitized “learning experiences” whose fundamental assumption is that the…
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Fools With Tools Are Still Fools
Schools risk being reduced to training camps for interface management, breeding generations of docile operators who are taught only to steer the…
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Michael S. Rose
Snapchat & the Vanishing Ethics of Youth
An app promoting impulsivity over reflection, secrecy over transparency, and temporary gratification over lasting relationships has come to dominate…
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Michael S. Rose
Resisting the Call for a ‘Digital Mindset’
From the heights of the digital sanctum, the decree descends, veiled in the language of innovation but heavy with obligation, an edict issued not for…
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A.I. and the Illusion of Intelligence
What A.I. offers is an illusion of intelligence and a seduction of ease, but not the kind of deep, self-reliant wisdom that true education demands.
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The Subversive Art of Slow Reading
What was once an act of immersion has now become an exercise in evasion. There’s no time to linger or to contemplate because the screen is perpetually…
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Why Latin and Logic Beat Coding Classes
The architect of tomorrow’s AI must be as much a philosopher as a technician, capable of wrestling with questions that cannot be answered by code alone…
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Let’s Not Trade Wisdom for Wikipedia
The pursuit of wisdom is not a relic of a bygone era but a timeless endeavor that speaks to the deepest needs of the human soul.
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Michael S. Rose
Digital Literacy & the Slow Death of Thinking
As devices infiltrate classrooms under the guise of educational enhancement, what we witness is the slow and silent erosion of an intellectual culture…
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The Art of Memory in a World of Amnesia
The disuse of memory in contemporary education enfeebles the intellect. The reliance on external storage—be it the search engine or the…
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