liberation technologies for education
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Can contemporary technologies finally break the colonial context of education? (background slides)TRANSCRIPT
Who manipulates your students’
worlds?Ira David SocolMichigan State UniversityAlbemarle County Public Schools
Heidegger
“One, Technology is a means to an end; it is an “instrument” to meet our needs. Second, Technology is a human activity. These two statements about technology are interconnected “for to posit ends and procure and utilize the means to them is a human activity.”’
- Mike’s Class
Technology
the art of manipulating the world
Technology as Truth
Technology determines our frame
of reference.
Our enframing of the world.
Technology
All that we create to manipulate our world
Structures, Furniture, Lighting
Time Schedules
Information and Communication Systems
Technology as Colonial
Coercive Technologies.
TPACK
Technological Knowledgeis inherent componentof Content Knowledgeconstruction.
Enframing
Enframing
Enframing
Enframing
Enframing
Enframing
Enframing
“Cross said she and her husband, Glenn Cross, and the couple's three school-age children went to bed early Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Before turning in, the youngsters played board games and finished their homework by firelight. "Just like Abe Lincoln," Glenn Cross said.”
- Chicago Tribune 1996
Enframing
Enframing
Liberation Technologies
Postcolonial Theories
Colonizing:
Reproducing a lesser version of yourself (your power structure) within others
Liberation
Allowing humans to develop within their unique capabilities.
“Toolbelt Theory”
Once students get to pick their own tools, and choose their own representations they are liberated humans. And then we can collaborate, rather than oppress.
“Toolbelt Theory”
Task-based, student-centered, technology choice paradigm
No diagnosis/prescription
How vs. What
What vs. How
Must your students…
Read your way?
Write your way?
Count your way?
Sit your way?
Work in your time schedule?
What makes your way,
the right way?
Are you so sure…
…that your way will be right for your students?
Ira David [email protected]