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   Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 10:50:00 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

   Ugh. Just took part in a Zoom meeting (yes, stooped to putting it onto my Linux machine) with the Min of Ed and Edtech talking about some new VR-assisted driver education software they're all excited about. Oh. My. Goodness. The lack of knowledge in evidence among those running the meeting was utterly discouraging. The Edtech rep asked - with a straight face! - the Ministry person "when can new technologies like Blockchain and AI be added?" The ministry person said "we're looking into it". OMG.

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 10:50:01 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     This is a dire emergency - the people *in charge of digital education in NZ* haven't got the frickin' foggiest idea of what they're talking about. Not even the vaguest inkling. This, my friends, is why we cannot have any nice things.

     They don't even realise how completely out of their depths they are. No one is holding them to account. This needs to change, urgently. Our society cannot afford for this wellspring of ignorance to be running the show, spending all our money on the *wrong* stuff.

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