Digital footprints and shoes that don’t fit

The theme for the 2018 International Conference of the Learning Sciences is – "Rethinking learning in the digital age: Making the Learning Sciences count." With this theme, the hosts of ICLS2018 inspire us to look back, aim forward, and examine the present. In furthering this mission of making the learning sciences count, we need to ask: what does it mean to count? What aspects of experience, activity and learning do we want to privilege and support? Do current technologies and their deployment align well with these ideals or might they displace them? In this talk, I will discuss such questions, and suggest research directions that can mitigate tensions between past commitments and future possibilities.