At first glance, the idea of innovation appears concomitant with the culture of technopoly. Innovation suggests that we must move forward to make improvements over current conditions. Inherent to a faith in technology is the belief that we can make improvements to technology to solve the problems we face collectively, especially in the classroom context. In this article, I propose that Neil Postman’s articulation of the loving resistance fighter offers a space in classrooms for a form of innovation that allows us to return to environments of the past, environments that develop a sense of resistance.
Ryan P. McCullough (Mon,) studied this question.