My son’s school has upgraded to Google Classroom.

This means they send me a PDF of a Powerpoint in Google Drive. To do the work, I’m supposed to convert this to a Word doc (using a Google docs extension called ‘dochub’) and type into it.

I wish I was making this up.

One effect of lockdown will be accelerated adoption of new tech. But another effect is people adopting it before it& #39;s ready, or adopting the wrong tech with the wrong training, making a big mess of it, and then dismissing the whole thing and running back to analogue

Classrooms, Powerpoint, Word and Google Docs are all good tools. But they& #39;re not good tools for *this*.