Episode 92: Seein’ Diamonds: New Years Wrap-up: Derelict, Lagan, Jetsam, & Flotsam: Take 4

Matt’s Notes

Welcome, all, to our first episode of 2026! In these deep winter post-holiday weeks it can be easy to get deep in the winter doldrums! It can be a challenge to see the light at the end of the cold, snowbound, wintery tunnel, so to speak! So we’re taking a look at some of the highlights of 2025 with this episode in the hopes of digging deep and drawing succor and finding solace and other mental and emotional resources to power forward into what has the potential to be a highly lit newish year! Please join us!

This is, unquestionably, our best episode of 2026 so far! #ednontech

You’d have to go back as least as far as 2025 to find audio of this caliber! #ednontech

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Doug’s Notes

New Years Wrap-up: Derelict, Lagan, Jetsam, & Flotsam: Take 4 (The happy version)

What we threw overboard, abandoned, noted to address, and addressed in 2025

Derelict – goods sank to the bottom and abandoned

Lagan – goods sank to the bottom and tethered by a marker to be potentially recovered

Jetsam – goods jettisoned and abandoned

Flotsam – goods floating on the surface and may be reclaimed

… conclude that the human factor is often considered as the most influential factor on the chances of failure or success.

Kirschner, P. A., Hendricks, M., Paas, F., Wopereis, I., & Cordewener, B. (2004). Determinants for Failure and Success of Innovation Projects: The Road to Sustainable Educational Innovation. Association for Educational Communications and Technology.

There are two major issues:

Where are we going?

How are we going to get there?

Gilbert, W. (1996, September). Supporting 50 classrooms full of whiz-bang technology. In Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (pp. 65-66). Chicago

Edtech is also an area to which people come from other disciplines, so there is no shared set of concepts or history. This can be liberating but also infuriating.

Weller, M. (2018). Twenty years of EdTech. Educause Review Online, 53(4), 34-48.

Historically, the research on teacher morale and its affect on student achievement has been positively correlated.

Willis, M., & Varner, L. (2010). Factors that affect teacher morale. Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012), 8(4), 24.

Music had originally included all the branches of intellectual and moral education – all departments presided over by the Nine Muses.

Laurie, S. S. (1887). The rise and early constitution of universities: with a survey of mediaeval education (No. 91). D. Appleton.

… effective strategies for flourishing while overseas provide preliminary data which suggest that acculturation phenomena provide growth opportunities. …Flourishing can be linked with acculturation.

Stasel, R. S. (2021). Educator acculturation while living and working overseas: Stories from seventeen sojourning teachers and school leaders at international schools (Doctoral dissertation, Queen’s University (Canada)).