INtroduction: Non-Stupid optimism

When teachers moved from ink on paper to bytes in the cloud, it did not diminish the intensity of the tonnage of writing they do. Manuals, memos, curricula, letters, reports,

Over the course of their careers teachers must write more manuals, letters and memos than all of the other profession combined. Theh sheer tonnage of words on paper has only been bytes and bits But the sheer tonnage of the human narratives they collect would

Novels

Theh problem is not that were wr not pepared with the tools and techniques, although those could have been better. The problem was that we had not preapred our student adequatelt for autonomy. In n 20 years, the tools wil have changed --and democracti approaches will be need mroe than ever before.