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THE RISKY PROMISES AND PROMISING RISKS OF NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR…
THE RISKY PROMISES AND PROMISING RISKS OF NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR EDUCATION
"Information" Technologies
Even if information is always selected, filtered, interpreted and extracted from a background set of assumptions that are implicit in the information itself, we don't have to take it for granted, not always can be assumed that all is totally true.
Communication technologies
Inquiry, communication, construction and expression.
These new technologies constitute an
enviroment
in which human interaction happen.
It is described as a collaborative environment, in which researchers or creative workers share ideas, co- construct new ideas and understandings, and design new products.
Internet seen as an engine to the growth of "global" context.
Here a space is an environment in which things happen, where people act and interact. Not only providing information, but creating a collaborative place, where teaching and learning activities can happen. They are not better or worse than any other social space.
A post-technocratic perspective on technology
framed/unhelpful
1) "computer as a panacea" perspective:
new technologies carry inherent possibilities that can revolutionize education as we know it
suggests that spending money to acquire new technical resources solves more problems that it creates. In reality, the potential of new technologies increases the need for imagination, careful planning, and coping on the fly with unexpected new challenges
2) The computer as tool perspective
It expects too much of new technologies which are merely tools that can be used for good or bad purposes
3) computer as non-neutral tool perspective
people do not simply use new tools to pursue old purposes more effiiciently or effectively
new tools cause to imagine new purposes that they had not even considered before
evaluating change
people can evaluate the good and bad aspects of different aims and consequences
Technology in education can be used well o badly, it has advantages and limitations. The key issues concern HOW they are used, by whom and for what purposes.
the good good, the bad, and the unknown
It is changing at an extremely rapid pace
Primary object of these new technology:
production, organization and dissemination of information
dangerous
hold tremendous potential that goes beyond our capacities
New technologies in education have become an educational issue, a challenge, an opportunity,a risk, a necessity, for reasons that have little to do with willful choices made by educators.
Schools can no longer choose wheter these technologies are educationally relevant or not.
New technologies have already become indispensable to the practices of schooling, for better or for worse.
Information "Technologies"
Instrumental view
Externalizes technologies, views them as fixed objects with a use and purpose.
Tools may have certain intended uses and purposes, but they frequently acquire new, unexpected uses and have new, unexpected effects.
Relational view
The relationship with technology is not one-way and instrumental, but two way.
The distinction between human and technology is never clear-cut. We are changed, culturally and psychologically, by the technologies we use.
Technology always have an impact in a lot of social processes.
The capacity for transformation is not intrinsic to the technology itself.