On my way to work I kept on ruminating Bendito Machines. I think these films picture us a situation that has been fading away for some time already.
Tech and particularly edutech has been more or less a monolith, a one-size-fits-all solution. Such was the spirit of the industrial era, and in a similar way has the education itself been organized.
Societies are in a flux: personal virtual networks, information flowing through a multipolar social media, crowdsourcing. Digital cultures have been showing the way, bridging and connecting people and forming new sub cultures.
In education, there's some inertia, but at least from the Finnish perspective, new era has begun. First, schools and teachers were free to organize teaching in the way they saw best for their pupils. Nowadays personalization of learning is high even on the agenda of the national authorities.
Techwise, BYOD/BYOX offers a plentitude of solutions. The attitudes, the norms and the ways work and teaching has been organized in practice are slower to change.
