Hope for the Future

Superb article/keynote transcript by Audrey Watters. She’s been a dedicated observer/researcher/critique of ed-tech for years now, with a reputation, by her own admission, of being quite the Cassandra in the field. For this talk presented at Digifest 2022, she focused on hope, but a hope built on not forgetting, on understanding and learning from history, and on lessons from the likes of Walter Brueggeman, Rebecca Solnit, Alan Kay, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Antonio Gramsci (not a bad list, you’ll agree).

Although loosely centered on ed-tech, this can all be read as being about technology more generally, and even on a societal level, as we face a disheartening number of massive challenges. As Watters explains, “criticism is generative; it can be one of many (small) acts of hope.” Finding hope and optimism is not an in-born quality, it’s something one can work on, construct, and promote. We can find hope in the challenges already overcome, in the changes already made, and work towards the futures we want. Must read (seriously, I kept way too many quotes below and it’s still only about a third of what I highlighted).

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