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- From: "P.K. Jamison,IU,812-333-4018" <JAMISONP@ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: What Educational Technology is
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- I would like to respond to Eric Wignall's statements about what educational
- technology is and what it is that educational technologists do. I feel
- that the edtech list should read this because Wignal has taken it upon
- himself to represent "us" as a group, and I feel wrongly. First, I would
- suggest that Wignall and others like him take time to read the works of
- Langdon Winner and others who make very strong arguments about the role
- and impact of technology upon societies. Secondly, I am an educational
- technologist who ahs worked with teachers and educators for over nine years,
- and I do not feel that they all see themselves as info gods or "at the
- center of the universe." Secondly, there is no point of differentiating
- between primitive methods or technologies, or need for the notion of
- efficiency. Not all technologists are concerned with efficiency. Some
- of us, and rightly so, are concerned about the sociocultural impact of
- western technologies on all societies through a variety of ways, including
- education. In fact, there are several technologists in the US who are
- from the field of education currently working on the idea of "technology"
- as a discourse rather than merely artifacts, techniques and systems.
- Some of them are myself, David Shutkin and MAtthew Weinstein from U of
- Wisconsin, John Belland at Ohio State, randy Nichols at Cincinnati,
- Liz Ellsworth and Mimi orner at U of Wisconsin, Denis Hylnka at Manitoba,
- several authors in England. I get letters from persons all over the world
- who are concerned with the use of technology in education. They are
- not Luddites, they are concerned educators. I would prefer that Wignall
- and others not assume that all educational technologists have the same
- World View of technology. Anyone interested in papers by these people
- can write me and I will send them on ASAP. Thanks for hearing my side.
- P.K. Jamison.
- JAMISON@usc.indiana.edu
-