On good learning tech…

We need new language / categories for talking about technologies designed to enhance, excite, enable, and engender learning.

On the one hand we have "ed tech", which is more an industry and conference circuit; on the other, we have an invisible layer of tools we don't explicitly think of as for learning, even if they are!

I like to take, as a simple starting point, "learning technology" — encompassing things like tech for enabling environments, augmented reading, collaborative platforms, rich social spaces and more.

I almost called this a catalog of good learning tech, because I think an explorable collection for this should exist. But for now, an initial list of products and companies I think are doing legitimately interesting and meaningful work to support learning!

Of course there are plenty more — a more expansive list would include hardware devices, and even things like "paper" and "the great outdoors" and "conversational frameworks".

Maybe we'll build the full catalog eventually. What categories should it have? What tools and technologies would you add to the list?