Technoskepticism in the Disciplines: A View from the Classroom

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

K-12 teaching and learning is increasingly mediated by educational technologies, devices, and digital platforms. While calls for digital literacy, or reading, composing and communicating across types of digital text and tools, have expanded over the last 30 years, concerns about screen time, social disconnection, and surveillance are also growing. This symposium explores how teachers and students in science, social studies, and literacy classrooms navigate these divergent perspectives on technology in reading, composing, and discussion.

Content Area

• AREA 10. Literacy Media and Technology

Chair

• Amy Guillotte, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant

• T. Philip Nichols, Baylor University

Individual Presentations

• Reasoning Together or Clicking Through? Analyzing How Individualized Computers Shape Small Group Science Talk - Tess Bernhard, University of Pennsylvania

• "We're Not Here to Just Watch Things:" Teachers' Perspectives on Read Aloud Videos in Elementary Literacy Instruction - Amy Guillotte, University of Pennsylvania

• Technology and Instructional Decision Making in the Social Studies Classroom - Andrew del Calvo, The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education