Appreciate this John. So scary to see the marketing spin done in the name of helping kids. People sometimes ask me how do these deceptive CEOs and marketers sleep at night? I find myself replying, "On very fancy sheets in a fancy house." People will do so much for a dollar--even if it hurts kids.
🔥Thank you for telling the truth, John, and for exposing the myriad harms of EdTech in schools. As someone who has taught in middle and high schools over the past decade plus, what I’ve witnessed in our screen-saturated classrooms has become increasingly disturbing. It’s time to get back to analog learning methods that we know work: paper, pencils and people!!
I hope you saved out the archived versions of their website. They will be rushing to ask archive.org to get them taken down. I saw this happen with balanced literacy publishers when they realized I found their old BS and was using their own old website to file formal complaints.
Oh yes I'm a bigtime digital hoarder. That's really interesting - I was unaware there was a process in place for getting all Ministry of Truth on archive.org. Thanks for the heads-up on that -- although knowing this will make me digi-hoard even more!
John, I never knew I could literally laugh-out-loud reading anything about iReady! This line was my favorite "When Olestra-drenched WOW! potato chips gave millions explosive “anal leakage,” Frito-Lay discovered — oh wait, no, they promptly yanked that poison off the market. Today, i-Ready is to children’s brains what WOW! potato chips were to '90s snackers’ undies: a real shit-show."
I think you could take most EdTech curricula and replace the name "iReady" with it's name and have the exact same story!
Appreciate this John. So scary to see the marketing spin done in the name of helping kids. People sometimes ask me how do these deceptive CEOs and marketers sleep at night? I find myself replying, "On very fancy sheets in a fancy house." People will do so much for a dollar--even if it hurts kids.
Yes, wrapped quite *purposefully* in 600 TC Egyptian cotton while little Suzie and Connor twitch sleeplessly under a haze of blue screen light!
🔥Thank you for telling the truth, John, and for exposing the myriad harms of EdTech in schools. As someone who has taught in middle and high schools over the past decade plus, what I’ve witnessed in our screen-saturated classrooms has become increasingly disturbing. It’s time to get back to analog learning methods that we know work: paper, pencils and people!!
I hope you saved out the archived versions of their website. They will be rushing to ask archive.org to get them taken down. I saw this happen with balanced literacy publishers when they realized I found their old BS and was using their own old website to file formal complaints.
Oh yes I'm a bigtime digital hoarder. That's really interesting - I was unaware there was a process in place for getting all Ministry of Truth on archive.org. Thanks for the heads-up on that -- although knowing this will make me digi-hoard even more!
John, I never knew I could literally laugh-out-loud reading anything about iReady! This line was my favorite "When Olestra-drenched WOW! potato chips gave millions explosive “anal leakage,” Frito-Lay discovered — oh wait, no, they promptly yanked that poison off the market. Today, i-Ready is to children’s brains what WOW! potato chips were to '90s snackers’ undies: a real shit-show."
I think you could take most EdTech curricula and replace the name "iReady" with it's name and have the exact same story!
Alas, I am a scatological man-child! But agreed, you could do a name-swap in that sentence. Mayhaps I shall.... :) Thanks for reading!