Technology in Education Studies

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Technology in Education Studies

• Technology Studies in Education?
• Technology Studies Program?

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Laws

• Moore transistors/chip doubles every two years
• Metcalfe network value increases as the (
  users) 2

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In the Future Already

• X-Files on-line forum to discuss shows
  direction
• Science fiction itself has remained the same. We
  have caught up to it...We are a science-fiction
  generation.
• 
  Ray Bradbury
• We cant think far enough ahead anymore.
• 
  Ron Shusett

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Emphasis on New Information Technologies

• Multimedia
• Online communities
• World Wide Web / Digital libraries
• Collaboration systems
• Virtual reality
• Ubiquitous computing
• Tools for lifelong learning

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Guiding Principles

• Opportunities to engage in all aspects of
  designing, developing, implementing technologies
  in learning settings
• Opportunities to evaluate and reflect on the
  social, ethical, and pedagogical implications of
  technology use

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Cycle of Experience and Reflection

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Separate Spheres?

• We are taught to view the political and the
  technological as separate spheres, the former
  having to do with values, ideology, power, and
  the like, the latter having to do with physical
  artifacts exempt from such vagaries of social
  life.
• L. Suchman
  (1988)

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Areas of Study

• Social/critical studies
• Pedagogy and learning theory
• Design, development, and implementation
• Research and evaluation

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Social/Critical Studies

• Digital content reliability hate sites
  pornography
• Access reification of dominance
• Loss of common knowledge
• Corporate influence
• Plagiarism ownership
• Surveillance control
• Deskilling society

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Pedagogy and Learning Theory

• Learning in new ways through the use of new
  technologies
• Learning how to use new technologies and how to
  learn how to learn
• Learning about new technologies and their
  implications for work and social life

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Design, Development, and Implementation

• Online courses
• Support for online communities
• Simulations
• Remote instrumentation
• Virtual reality -- the CAVE
• Lego/Logo

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Research and Evaluation
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Surveillance

• The road to freedom via a two-way Information
  Highway may turn into a one-way Surveillance
  Street, used to condition peoples thoughts and
  control their behavior.
• 
  Crawford,1994
• Video surveillance is now so ubiquitous that
  were on television more than we watch it.
• CSCW research (program committee)