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!
Moonrise — creative learning environments for homeschoolers that look amazing, with nice spaces and tools for projects
Arena — platform for curating / sharing collections of things like links, images, and PDFs, used by lots of educators
Antimatter — p2p memes and games for classroom learning
Pathwright — one of the only online course platforms that's at all interesting, designed by actual educators
Kinopio — playful canvas for thinking and linking
YouTube — in a surprisingly real sense; perhaps the best search engine for tacit knowledge
Obsidian — powerful and flexible notes app…start with plaintext notes; make it yours with all sorts of extensions
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?