On Monday, Jan 14, 2008, I’m going to be leading the discussion on the subject of Technology, Culture, and Education with EDUC628. I can’t express how excited I am to be taking on this challenge. The following questions are some of the questions addressed in this course.
How have technologies shaped the economic, social, and political life and educational ideals and practices of our civilization?
Who were the major contributors to the creation of our “technological society”?
What have been the major positive and negative contributions of major technological innovations?
What might be the long-term positive and negative effects on education and society of today’s new technologies?
Who benefits most from new technologies?
What epistemologies are inherent in particular technologies? How do we know what we know?
What value biases (personal and political) are inherent in particular technologies?
In addition, I’d like to address some fundamental issues like
- What is culture?
- What’s the role of Education?
- Is it a universal role acrosss cultures?
- What constitutes technology?
- Can culture exist without technology?
- What constitutes ethical behavior? Is there a universal ethos?
- Can you be ethical and be a teacher?
It should be an interesting semester with more questions than answers.
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January 12th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Bring on the questions…I can’t wait to argue about them.