the best technology of the olympics isn’t high tech

Liked Maybe Not the Sports Technologies You Were Expecting by Audrey Watters (Second Breakfast)

As a writer about and critic of education technology, I was often asked "what's your favorite piece of ed-tech" – some sort of "gotcha" question, I reckon, in which I was supposed to confess that, in fact, I hate everything. I'd answer "the window," which is, no doubt, some sort of "gotcha" response – even though, in truth, it is one of the most significant pieces of technology in a classroom and, no lies, truly one of my favorites. If you've ever taught or learned in a space without windows, yo