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Philosophical & Theological Foundations of Educational Technology…
Philosophical & Theological Foundations of Educational Technology
Information Revolution
Information Life-Cycle
Transmission
Networking, distributing, accessing, retrieving, transmitting
Processing & management
Collecting, validating, modifying, organizing, indexing, classifying, filtering, updating, sorting, storing
Occurence
Discovering, designing, authoring
Usage
Monitoring, modeling, analyzing, explaining, planning, forecasting, decision-making, instructing, educating, learning
Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs)
Changing the world profoundly & irreversibly for half a century
Benefit to education, welfare, prosperity
Evolved from recording systems
To communication systems
To also being processing & producing systems
Creating a new informational environment
Carry significant risks & generate dilemmas
Responsibilities to future generations
The Fourth Revolution
Highlights intrinsically informational nature of human agents
Alan Turing is representative scientist
Enhancing appliances
Enable appliance to be attached to user's body
Augmenting Appliances
Allows for communication between different worlds
Digital immigrants replaced by digital natives
E-migration complete
Future generations feeling deprived, excluded & poor from being disconnected
Three Scientific Revolutions
Darwinian Revolution - Evolution of species from common ancestors
Copernican Revolution - Earth & humanity are not center of universe
Freudian Revolution - mind is also unconscious; Subject to defense mechanism of repression
Life in the Infosphere
World "offline" fully interactive & responsive environment in real time
Shift from way to refer to information, to synonymous w/ reality
Will be difficult to understand pre-informational times
Need an ecology of infosphere to avoid problems
Objects will be ITentities
Ability to learn, advise & communicate
Divide between information-rich & information poor
We are preparing ground for tomorrow's digital slums
Theology & Technology
Historical Negotiation
Bible is example of negotiation w/ technology & media
Influenced ways of thinking about sources of authority
Writing could convey power & organization across cultures & geographies
Created control of access
Became encoded in static form
Authority rested in interpreters
Adoption of papyrus codex
Showed acceptance of media technology
Significant part of Christian identity
Enhancement of printing technology during Renaissance
Renegotiation of media & technology
Many implications
Accepting Enlightenment over knowledge of God
Increased use & interpretation
Splintering mirrored w/ electronic media
Television & internet
Responses to Technology
Technological Optimism
See technology & media as a liberating force
Brings improvement to everyday life
Labor-saving devices
Access to information & entertainment
Improves productivity
Economic Growth
Make the world better for humanity
Social & geographical mobility
Birth control/reproductive technologies
Technology used in mission & evangelism
Access services at different times
Podcasts & video feeds
Manage daily church schedule
Share gospel with new communities
Radio, television, print, internet
Attract new members
Technological Ambiguity
Concerns about technology partnered w/ awe of human technological agency
Technology is ambiguous instrument of power
Imbuing it w/ power
Limiting it
Social context of technology
Intentions of those using tool & consequences for using it
Technology is social construction
Response to values present in society & institutions
Bifocal view of technology
Celebration of human creativity
Creative, compassionate response to God
Demand for social justice
Suspicion of power
Can displace God
Technology can be an unjust instrument of power
Institutionalization of self-interest
Technological Pessimism
Suppression of individuality & creativity
Quest for technological efficiency
Technology autonomous, all-powerful system
Pervasive structure
All-encompassing form of life
Little understanding, little control
Technological determinism
Adapt to technology, or be marginalized
Reduces individual choice
Choice of different technology, not a choice to opt out
Magnifies problem & flaws in society
Breakdown of relationships/connections
Drawn away from authentic expression of faith
Pathway for young into poor internet choices
Defining Technology
Three interwoven perspectives
Processes & structures need to produce artifacts
Combining of human skills & techniques w/ manufacturing infrastructure
Cultural structures that support the technological systems
Becoming a pervasive "techno-culture"
Artifacts produced by manufacturing processes
Application of science, related to practical mechanics
Tools, machines, mechanisms invented to manipulate/exploit world
Shapes everyday life
Technology fulfills needs and wishes
Ex: computer, pen, fire, chemicals, software system
Most common way of thinking about technology
Exists to allow humans to pursue novelty & experience
A way of understanding ourselves & the world
Develop something new
Even as spiritual exercise