Rethinking Ed Tech and Tech Ed: Critical Perspectives on Technology and Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In keeping with the 2018 AERA conference theme, “The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education,” that urges scholars to “(re)imagine and contribute to developing what education can and must be for today’s children, their families, and communities, and for the billions who will be the inheritors of this earth,” this symposium session submission intends to provide a real-time snapshot of P-20 technology policy integration in American schools. By many measures, technology-related changes in teaching and learning, curriculum, and standards in our public schools are moving more quickly than research can keep up. This is problematic for a variety of reasons, but most importantly because corporate interests, not best practices, are leading the education technology revolution.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning

Chair

• Gregory T. Donovan

Papers

• "Privacy Can Be a State of Mind": Emotion Work and Online Participation - Claire Fontaine, Data & Society Research Institute

• A View From the Classroom: Smart Schools Bond Act in Context - Kiersten Greene, SUNY - College at New Paltz

• Why CS4All? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Computer Science for All Initiative - Tom Liam Lynch, Pace University

• A Framework and Imperative for "Insider-Outsider" Dialogue in Ed-Tech - Edwin Mayorga, Swarthmore College; George Woodliff-Stanley, Swarthmore College

• Beyond Human Capital: Expanding the Purposes and Pedagogies of Computer Science for All Initiatives - Sara Vogel, The City University of New York; Rafi Santo, New York University; Dixie Ching, New York University

Discussant

• Gregory T. Donovan