[Xmca-l] Re: remote_online learning?

[Anthony Barra]

Interesting question!  Instead of being useful by contributing a productive
answer, I'll pose a tiny, off-topic, rhetorical question just as a fun
little game: what would the headline be for the same article in seven other
publications? (Stereotypes accepted!)
1. The Guardian - How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic (reprinted
from The Intercept)
2. The Intercept - Screen New Deal: Under cover of mass death, Andrew Cuomo
calls in the billionaires to build a high-tech dystopia
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

It's a very interesting topic, in my opinion, and not just because my
current job might one day become obsolete. It's also interesting to note
the early rhetorical framing that various organizations are already
bringing to the topic (as they attempt to assign our opinions to us?).

Sorry to side-step your interesting email, Tom!  I'm sure others will
respond to it productively, and I'm interested to hear what they'll say.

Thanks,

Anthony

P.S.  I kind of like this little assignment and will probably use it soon,
as a collaborative task in my "distance learning" classroom : )


On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:07 PM Tom Richardson <
tom.richardson3@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Greetings Xmca-ers
> I would   like to raise a question.
> In the article by Naomi Klein linked below, apart from all the major
> questions about  our futures  - personal freedom, health protection,
> democratic control and the power of Big Digital Tech_AI, international
> competition etc. that she raises, I wondered what from a Vygotskyan
> approach to child/human development/education can / should be a reply to
> these sentences on the 'home schooling' that has (or hasn't) been
> happening  recently:
>
>
> "Indeed, Schmidt has been relentless in pursuing this vision. Two weeks
> after that article appeared, he described
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtAyGVuRQME__;!!Mih3wA!VRgkzssOuSyNvpVQWR2QH7dShhiXD5eWtYs2HahNwv_pKUU7G9GOQZMrzIpGsa_-KDBGFw$> the
> ad-hoc home schooling programming that teachers and families across the
> country had been forced to cobble together during this public health
> emergency as “a massive experiment in remote learning”.
>
> The goal of this experiment, he said, was “trying to find out: how do kids
> learn remotely? And with that data we should be able to build better remote
> and distance learning tools which, when combined with the teacher … will
> help kids learn better.” "
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic__;!!Mih3wA!Sax7n0bw9ezhUamRDOxsSimESCmOSBm6wmHs7HyRau86HMy2ux-MUbdsZ99FrOlH71O4Wg$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic__;!!Mih3wA!VRgkzssOuSyNvpVQWR2QH7dShhiXD5eWtYs2HahNwv_pKUU7G9GOQZMrzIpGsa-SnnFGDg$>
>
>
> Just asking
> Tom Richardson
> Middlesbrough UK
>
>
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