Education Policy Entangled With Technology: Considering Rural

• In Event: Policy and Culture in Rural Education

Abstract

Increasingly, educational policy is entangled with using digital technology in often hidden ways. This article focuses on early education policy which predicates the use of a computer adaptive literacy assessment in a broadband anemic rural region of Idaho. As such technology is used as an entry point to think about the ways education policy without the necessary infrastructure and support is a form of placism (Jimerson, 2005) negatively impacting rural schools and the learners and communities they serve. As such we provide grounds to consider how drawing on a critical place-consciousness is necessary less use of education technology as part of rural schooling may amplifies inequities.

Authors

• Elizabeth Wargo, University of Idaho
  Presenting Author

• Juhee Kim, University of Idaho
  Presenting Author