Busting the Myths of Educational Technology: Embracing our Agency

• In Event: TED Panel: Busting the Myths of Educational Technology: Embracing our Agency

Short Description

To learn from Las Vegas is to go beyond the hype, in this case, as it is repeated in student work, and sometimes even in our own discourses. For example: youth are said to be “digital natives,” technology is said to cause learning. Studies of students’ behavior and of repeated technology interventions do not point to single technologically or demographically pre-determined outcomes. We argue they instead point towards individual creativity and agency.

Authors

• Brent G. Wilson, U of Colorado Denver

• Patrick Lowenthal, Boise State University

• Brett Shelton, Boise State University

• Norm Friesen, Educational Technology