The trouble with gurus

I once wrote a scathing (but, of course, very polite) article about something a well-known person had written. Later that day, I was going down an escalator at Waterloo Station, and he was coming up the other escalator!

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The Education Technology Guru test

The term “guru” is bandied about all too often these days. But how apt is the term? I think for a person to be described as an education technology guru, the following criteria have to be satisfied. I’m basing these on my understanding of the role of a guru in traditional meditation practices. The guru there is an enlightened person who is helping others to achieve the same state of consciousness. So here is my set of criteria of ed tech gurudom.
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