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Is It Time to Give Up on Computers in Schools? - Hybrid Pedagogy - 0 views

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- onewheeljoe on 30 Jun 15
  
  The word easy stands out to me here. Schools are proving that it isn't easy to subvert or to entrench the meritocratic, racially segregated, class-based system of education. There is deliberate struggle on both sides and progress is painfully slow. What I find to be true is that if you follow the money, you find that it the dollars are best organized in the effort to further entrench our inequitable systems.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The word easy stands out to me here. Schools are proving that it isn't easy to subvert or to entrench the meritocratic, racially segregated, class-based system of education. There is deliberate struggle on both sides and progress is painfully slow. What I find to be true is that if you follow the money, you find that it the dollars are best organized in the effort to further entrench our inequitable systems. </div>
  
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we need to get the ideologies that are hardwired into computers out of the classroom.
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These were days of experimentation, and as Seymour teaches us, re-imagining what these powerful machines could enable students to do. (That’s why the computer matters, Seymour argued — something you could tinker and think with. Not this other word that ISTE now invokes, “technology.”) And then came the network.
- onewheeljoe on 30 Jun 15
  
  How has the network stifled tinkering, innovation and progress?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">How has the network stifled tinkering, innovation and progress? </div>
  
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What “the network” introduced in educational technology was also a more centralized control of computers. No longer was it up to the individual, innovative teacher to have a computer in her classroom. It was up to the district, the Central Office. It was up to IT. The sorts of hardware and software that were purchased had to meet those needs — the needs and the desire of the administration, not the needs and the desires of innovative educators, and certainly not the needs and desires of students.
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Computers are a tool of surveillance.
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If we want schools to be democratizing, then we need to stop and consider how computers are likely to entrench the very opposite. Unless we stop them.
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ISTE is the perfect place to question what the hell we’re doing in ed-tech in part because this has become a conference and an organization dominated by exhibitors. Ed-tech — in product and policy — is similarly dominated by brands. 60% of ISTE’s revenue comes from the conference exhibitors and corporate relations; touting itself as a membership organization, just 12% of its revenue comes from members. Take one step into that massive shit-show called the Expo Hall and it’s hard not to agree: “Yes, it is time to give up on computers in schools.”
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The stakes are high here in part because all this highlights Google’s thirst for data — our data. The stakes are high here because we have convinced ourselves that we can trust Google with its mission: “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
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