The Ed-Tech Imaginary
Audrey Watters,
Hack Education,
Jun 22, 2020
Is ed tech a tool of oppression? Audrey Watters, I think would argue that it is. She asks, " How much of ed-tech is, to use Ruha Benjamin's phrase, 'the new Jim Code'? How much of ed-tech is designed by those who imagine students as cheats or criminals, as deficient or negligent?" And she suggests, "so much of the ed-tech imaginary is wrapped up in narratives about the Hero, the Weapon, the Machine, the Behavior, the Action, the Disruption. And it's so striking because education should be a practice of care, not conquest."
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