Who manipulates your students’

worlds?Ira David SocolMichigan State UniversityAlbemarle County Public Schools

Heidegger

“One, Technology is a means to an end; it is an “instrument” to meet our needs. Second, Technology is a human activity. These two statements about technology are interconnected “for to posit ends and procure and utilize the means to them is a human activity.”’

- Mike’s Class

Technology

the art of manipulating the world

Technology as Truth

Technology determines our frame

of reference.

Our enframing of the world.

Technology

All that we create to manipulate our world

Structures, Furniture, Lighting

Time Schedules

Information and Communication Systems

Technology as Colonial

Coercive Technologies.

TPACK

Technological Knowledgeis inherent componentof Content Knowledgeconstruction.

Enframing

Enframing

Enframing

Enframing

Enframing

Enframing

Enframing

“Cross said she and her husband, Glenn Cross, and the couple's three school-age children went to bed early Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Before turning in, the youngsters played board games and finished their homework by firelight. "Just like Abe Lincoln," Glenn Cross said.”

- Chicago Tribune 1996

Enframing

Enframing

Liberation Technologies

Postcolonial Theories

Colonizing:

Reproducing a lesser version of yourself (your power structure) within others

Liberation

Allowing humans to develop within their unique capabilities.

“Toolbelt Theory”

Once students get to pick their own tools, and choose their own representations they are liberated humans. And then we can collaborate, rather than oppress.

“Toolbelt Theory”

Task-based, student-centered, technology choice paradigm

No diagnosis/prescription

How vs. What

What vs. How

Must your students…

Read your way?

Write your way?

Count your way?

Sit your way?

Work in your time schedule?

What makes your way,

the right way?

Are you so sure…

…that your way will be right for your students?

Ira David Socolirasocol@gmail.comirasocol.com