Distrusting Educational Technology Critical Questions for Changing Times [Hardcover]

Distrusting Educational Technologycritically explores the optimistic consensus that has arisen around the use of digital technology in education. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book shows how apparently neutral forms of educational technology have actually served to align educational provision and practices with neo-liberal values, thereby eroding the nature of education as a public good and moving it instead toward the individualistic tendencies of twenty-first century capitalism.

Following a wide-ranging interrogation of the ideological dimensions of educational technology, this book examines in detail specific types of digital technology in use in education today, including virtual education, open courses, digital games, and social media. It then concludes with specific recommendations for fairer forms of educational technology. An ideal read for anyone interested in the fast-changing nature of contemporary education, Distrusting Educational Technologycomprises an ambitious and much-needed critique.

 Preface and acknowledgement

1 Why distrust educational technology?

2 Understanding educational technology as ideology

3 Distrusting virtual technologies in education

4 Distrusting open technologies in education

5 Distrusting games technologies in education

6 Distrusting social technologies in education

7 Educational technology  continuities, contradictions, and conflicts

8 Educational technology  is there an alternative?

 References

Neil Selwyns book is a superb analysis of the key reasons to distrust many aspects of the use and application of technology as represented to teachers, students and educationalists. His book is not a sl/