Part 2 of My Reflections on Ed Tech and Horvath’s Book The Digital Delusion

Though I agree with much of his critique of Ed Tech, Horvath’s vision for how to do education better contains subtle reactionary tone. I first picked up on this political stance before I read the book. Horvath, in an interview with Drew Perkins on his Thought Stretchers Podcast, made mention that he felt that the 1990s and early 2000s, when he was coming up through secondary school, were “peak western education”. I found this a very odd claim. I am also a product of “western education” in the 1990s. I graduated from high school in Canada in 1998. I’m not so sure everyone had the same “peak” experience.