# The cruel optimism of EdTech

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Podcast: [Education Technology Society](https://stenobird.com/podcast/education-technology-society-6407432)
Published: 2025-03-07T10:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Platforms are now an almost ubiquitous feature of schools. We talk with Lucas Cone (University of Copenhagen) about his work around teachers’ everyday engagements with platforms – in particular the benefits of using affect theory to make sense of teachers’ affiliations and relationships with these clearly problematic technologies. Accompanying reference >>> Lucas Cone (2024) Subscribing school: digital platforms, affective attachments, and cruel optimism in a Danish...

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