Unveiling the Interplay: The Multidimensionality of Digital Technology Pedagogical Practices

• In Event: Interventions to Support School Transformation and Reform

Abstract

Incorporating digital technologies into classrooms presents challenges beyond technical implementation; it requires teachers to make sense of their social, historical, cultural, economic, technical, and political contexts. Using a phenomenological approach, I investigate how these practices impact the educational experiences of racialized and marginalized students. This study explores how teachers of Color navigate these challenges and implement digital technologies to
humanize the educational experiences of their students. Drawing from educational, decolonial, and Black feminist technology scholarship, I develop a sociotechnical framework to analyze Digital Technology Pedagogical Practices (DTPPs). Through an examination of Sebastian, a Middle school reading-intervention teacher, I reveal the complexities of DTPPs, which can simultaneously humanize and dehumanize students' digital learning experiences along sociotechnical zone of being/non-being.

Author

• Emanuel Suarez Jimenez, University of California - Santa Cruz