{"id":2569,"date":"2011-12-04T13:44:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2011-12-04T13:44:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T18:44:17","slug":"misrepresented-by-the-nj-star-ledger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Misrepresented by the NJ Star Ledger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2573\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"iStock_000006352760XSmall\" src=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iStock_000006352760XSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"262\" \/>While in While in Italy last week, I received email from <a title=\"Contact Eugene Paik\" href=\"mailto:EPAIK@STARLEDGER.COM\" target=\"_blank\">Eugene Paik<\/a>, a reporter for The Star Ledger newspaper. He read my blog post, <a title=\"BYOD article by Gary Stager\" href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2397\" target=\"_blank\">BYOD \u2013 Worst Idea of the 21st Century?<\/a>, and was seeking expertise for an article on a New Jersey school district enacting a Bring-Your-Own-Device\/Technology policy. I dropped everything and responded to his questions immediately via email since I was overseas. Besides, you can&#8217;t be misquoted when you respond in writing, right?<\/p>\n<p>Paik&#8217;s article,\u00a0<a title=\"Star Ledger article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2011\/12\/bernards_twp_district_encourag.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bernards Twp. district encouraging use of mobile devices<\/a>, ran in the December 4th issue of <em>The Star Ledger<\/em>. That article completely misrepresents and distorts my answers to his questions. I cannot claim to be misquoted since the attributions to me are not printed as quotes. Sneaky, eh?<\/p>\n<p>The following is how Mr. Paik reports my views on the matter of BYOD in Bernards Township, NJ.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gary Stager, an international school-reform consultant and advocate for laptops in classrooms, said there are other issues as well. Not only are there challenges in training faculty on different devices and phone applications, but many school districts also mistakenly assume all electronic devices are alike.<\/p>\n<p>A focus on mobile devices could prevent students from becoming familiar with software and hardware that require an actual computer, Stager said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are my major issues with the reporting of my views.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I <strong>NEVER<\/strong> <strong>EVER<\/strong> use the word <em>training<\/em>. It is antithetical to learning. Anyone familiar with my work knows this to be the case. You do not <em>train<\/em> professional educators! <em>Training<\/em> is what you do when you&#8217;re trying to get your chihuahua to piss on <em>The Star Ledger.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>While I understand the space constraints required by writing for publication, the author decided not to raise my major objection to BYOD policies &#8211; inequity.<\/li>\n<li>I never said anything about students becoming <em>familiar<\/em> with hardware and software. My advocacy of computers in education is based on depth, breadth and fluency.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I truly wish that educators and reporters would pay greater attention to nuance and stop tossing around terms like &#8220;training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Here are Mr. Paik&#8217;s interview questions sent to me and answered on November 27th. My quite precise answers are indented.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gary,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Just a little bit of background about the policy. The district, in<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bernards Township in New Jersey, is mulling the proposal for its high<\/em><br \/>\n<em>school and middle school students. They would use their smart phones,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>tablets and laptops for instruction, and those who don&#8217;t have those<\/em><br \/>\n<em>devices would be asked to share with students who do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here are my questions:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1.) The most common concern I hear about is that students would use<br \/>\ntheir cell phones to goof around (chat, use Facebook) under the guise of<br \/>\ninformation gathering. Obviously, the issue goes far deeper than that,<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;m wondering if you agree that this would be an issue. Or are<br \/>\ncritics incorrectly calling this the biggest problem when there are many<br \/>\nother issues to be concerned about?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have worked in schools where every student has a personal laptop computer since 1990. Most recently, I launched 1:1 in a new Korean international school where every student down to first grade has a personal MacBook computer. Theft, breakage, loss have not been a problem anywhere in the world from Harlem to Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>As for goofing around, there is a good deal of anecdotal and scientific evidence that children with computers are not only more social, but their social interactions tend to be work related.<\/p>\n<p>If kids are goofing around or aimlessly surfing the Web, this is a function of an unimaginative curriculum or lackluster teaching.<\/p>\n<p>I view the computer as an intellectual laboratory and vehicle for self-expression that amplifies human potential. When the goal is not to use the computer to teach what we have always hoped kids would learn, perhaps with greater efficacy or efficiency, but to learn and do things that were impossible without the presence of computing, the work takes on a sense of life and urgency much deeper than Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>It seems odd to me that an affluent district with a long tradition of educational computing, like Bernards Township, would adopt such a policy. Bernards&#8217; students are much more likely to own real portable computers than kids in other districts where the BYOD policy seems to be &#8220;Let them eat cellphones!&#8221; Even if every kid can afford the quality of personal computer I advocate for learning, BYOD is still terrible public policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2.) One of the issues arising out of this is the divide between the<br \/>\n&#8220;haves&#8221; and the &#8220;have-nots.&#8221; It would appear that this would set an<br \/>\nuneven playing field for certain students. Could you explain a little<br \/>\nmore about the significance of this? Would sharing devices be enough to<br \/>\nsolve this problem?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First of all, if schools did not create moronic knee-jerk policies banning things kids own, they wouldn&#8217;t need to enact new policies to allow them back on campus. While there might be educational potential in cell-phone use, the real reason not to ban them is that we should not be arbitrarily mean to children. Schools need to do everything possible to lower the level of antagonism between adults and kids. Any idea, passion, question, expertise or gadget a kid brings to school should be viewed as a potential gift. It is incumbent upon teachers and administrators to build upon such gifts. That does not mean that BYOD is sound policy.<\/p>\n<p>One problem with BYOD is that it enshrines inequity while pretending to be democratic. Some students will have much more power and capability when educational policy is left to the accident of family wealth. Not every object requiring electricity is equivalent. Since the computer is today&#8217;s primary instrument for intellectual and creative work, every child needs as much power as possible. The cost of providing every American youngster a multimedia laptop computer has never been more than a few percentage points of the annual per pupil spending and that price would fall dramatically if we committed to every child having a portable personal computer as Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon proposed in 1971.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>3.) You mentioned the issue of teacher anxiety, and I&#8217;ve heard stories<br \/>\nin New Jersey about some teachers who aren&#8217;t familiar with smart phones<br \/>\nat all. In your opinion, do those kinds of teachers represent most<br \/>\neducators? Even if they form a minority, how big of a problem would that<br \/>\nbe?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Teachers, for a variety of reasons, are among the least comfortable users of computational technology in society. Asking them to teach in an environment when kids have random &#8220;devices&#8221; only exacerbates the problem and raises their anxiety. This is a bad idea for two reasons. 1) Not all devices are created equally. So, educational activities need to be predicated upon the weakest device in the room. 2) There is a tendency to think of technology in education as &#8220;looking stuff up online.&#8221; This is the low-hanging fruit and represents the most trivial potential of the computer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>4.) Considering the shrinking budgets many school districts are seeing,<br \/>\nwhy shouldn&#8217;t this policy be considered a good compromise between<br \/>\neducational quality and cost? I&#8217;ve heard some say that school-issued<br \/>\nlaptops for students typically are not well maintained or cared for.<br \/>\nWouldn&#8217;t students take better care of the equipment knowing it was their<br \/>\nown?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kids do take better care of their computer, even if it is on loan from the school. However, it is terrible policy to leave 21st Century learning up to the financial liquidity of children. Educators will suffer more dire financial conditions when they endorse the idea that the public need not finance high-quality public educational opportunities for all of its young citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>5.) I thought your argument about BYOT policies narrowing the learning<br \/>\nprocess was intriguing. What are the skills that students would not<br \/>\ndevelop under this policy?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computer modeling, programming, computer science, music composition, film-making, personal fabrication are but a few of the learning opportunities rendered impossible or very difficult on a cell phone or tablet device &#8211; at least for the next couple of years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Thanks so much for the quick turnaround. I appreciate it. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:EPAIK@STARLEDGER.COM\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Eugene<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Feel free to contact <a href=\"mailto:EPAIK@STARLEDGER.COM\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Paik<\/a> and express your concern about this reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Read my <a title=\"BYOD - Worst Idea of the 21st Century?\" href=\"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2397\" target=\"_blank\">original post<\/a>, igniting this controversy.<\/p>\n<p>In a perfect world, members of the edtech community would know better and stop equating cellphones with computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in While in Italy last week, I received email from Eugene Paik, a reporter for The Star Ledger newspaper. 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