Even in the hands of a skilled teacher, technology works to separate teachers from students and weaken this relationship. With online classes, students may never even meet their teachers. With flipped classrooms, the teaching is done through the computer as teachers play a secondary role in the classroom. In fact, that’s a common mantra of the ed-tech movement. Teachers are relegated to the sideline as students are given more control of their own learning. I’ve watched many “integrated classrooms” in action, and they almost always involve students silently working on their laptops while the
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