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There has been lots of discussion about camera-required versus camera-optional in class, but I don't think I've seen an analysis yet that looks at how virtual backgrounds can be yet another marker of social status. 1/ #failuretodisrupt
Paul Attewell proposed that the digital divide had two parts, access and usage, and even when we close gaps in access, there can still be differences in opportunities between more and less affluent students. People often hope edtech closes gaps, but it more often opens them 2/ 
Affluent kids are more likely to have access to quiet, private workspaces, that also communicate social status through markers of consumption positioned in frame. Poverty-impacted students are less likely to have access to such spaces in the real world. But it gets worse. 3/
I've got free #FailureToDisrupt online book talks every day this week. Check out failuretodisrupt.com for updates. Here's the week: Virtual book club starts this Monday 3pm ET w/ @audreywatters and @hypervisible discussing the Intro chapter, reg at failuretodisrupt.com/virtualbookclub. 1/4
On Tues (3:30pm ET), we'll look at how the history explored in #FailureToDisrupt helps us think through the current pandemic challenges with @thomasdaccord and my good friends at @EdTechTeacher21. Reg here: eventbrite.com/e/what-the-his… (all these reg's get you the video after) 2/4
On Thursday in Asia (10:15AM) and Wed in US (10:15PM ET). I'm on a panel about Reimagining Higher Education with folks from Hong Kong and Minerva. I anticipate being cranky! app.glueup.com/event/reimagin… 3/4
Tomorrow is publication day for #FailureToDisrupt from @Harvard_Press! Find bookseller links and reviews at failuretodisrupt.com. You can also sign up to join our free 10-week book club, starting Sept 21 at 3pm ET, recorded or live. We have great guests including...
Discussing the introduction and framing the conversation, we have @hypervisible and @audreywatters. Then Part I of the book addresses three "genres" of learning at scale... (Sign up at failuretodisrupt.com/virtualbookclub) #failuretodisrupt
Discussing instructor-guided courses like MOOCs we have @gsiemens and Liz Losh. We'll talk algorithm-guided tools like adaptive tutors w/ Cristina & Neil Heffernan from @assistments ... #failuretodisrupt
EdTech history is so important, because some ideas repeat over and over. "Video lectures are the new textbook" 9/9/2020 from @mattyglesias in @voxdotcom & circa 1913 from Thomas Edison. But here's what's striking about this argument in the current moment... #failuretodisrupt
The claim is that if we build really good online microeconomics courses, then everyone will use them and education will be better. That was the 2012 MOOC argument, one of the 3 big bets of MOOCs...#failuretodisrupt
But people did build them. Maybe more than a dozen of them from top universities like MIT, Penn, Queensland, Illinois, and UC Irvine. It's probably a few million dollars of investment in this one subject area, microeconomics. #failuretodisrupt
