World of Technology:
Better or Blinding?
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https://doi.org/10.14288/tci.v15i1.190718Abstract
By sharing the technological eclipses that have shadowed many lives in multiple cultural contexts, in this paper, I attempt to explore the meaning of technology by revisiting Ferneding’ s quest to understand technology. I share how humanity, immersed in technoculture, in its ongoing pursuit for salvation through technological inventions, has in turn become a slave of technology. In an attempt to awaken our collective moral consciousness and break this technological cocoon, I join Grant in re(thinking): “What technology is”? For guidance, I turn to Heidegger who invites us to contemplate technology as an intellectual capacity. I hope to invite technology as a technoscience — a way of uncovering nature and illuminating life amid teaching, learning and living encounters of education that do not technicalize schooling to alienate our self from us, but call for love and belongingness as we engage in complicated conversations to understand curriculum.References
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Han, H. (2011). Second life, a 3-D animated virtual world: An alternative platform for (art) education. Art Education, 64(4), 41-46.
Ihde, D. (1979). Technics and praxis: A philosophy of technology. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
Kemmis, S. (2005). Participatory action research and the public sphere. Paper presented at PRAR-conference, Utrecht, Holland.
Kozma, R. B. (2003). Technology and classroom practices: An international study. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 36 (1), 1-14. Retrieved November 29, 2012, from http://robertkozma.com/images/kozma_jrte.pdf
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McNeil, F. (2009). Learning with the brain in mind. Los Angeles: SAGE.
Miron, G. & Urschel, J. L. (2012). Understanding and improving full-time virtual schools: A study of student characteristics, school finance, and school performance in schools operated by K12 Inc. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved November 29, 2012 from http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/understanding-improving-virtual
National Aboriginal Health Organization (2009). Children & technology fact sheet. Retrieved November 29, 2012 from http://www.naho.ca/documents/fnc/english/Children_Technology_Factsheet-12-11-09.pdf
National Education Policy Center (2012). Report Shows Students Attending K12 Inc. Cyber Schools Fall Behind. News Report. Retrieved October 29, 2018 from https://nepc.colorado.edu/newsletter/2012/07/understanding-improving-virtual%20
Pelgrum, W. J. (2001). Obstacles to the integration of ICT in education: Results from a worldwide educational assessment. Computers & Education, 37, 163-178.
Perrotta, C. (2013). Do school-level factors influence the educational benefits of digital technology? A critical analysis of teachers’ perceptions: The educational benefits of digital technology use. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44(2), 314-327. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2012.01304.x
Pinar, W. F. (1992). “Dreamt into existence by others”: Curriculum theory and school reform. Theory into Practice, 31(3), 228-235.
Pinar, W. F. (2005). Curriculum and study, NOT curriculum and teaching: Shifting the site of education. Oklahoma State University. (Lecture)
Pinar, W. F. (2011). Allegories of the present: Curriculum development in a culture of narcissism and presentism. University of British Columbia. (Lecture)
Pinar, W. F. (2012a). What is curriculum theory? New York: Routledge.
Pinar, W. F. (2012b). The first task of thought in our time. Paper presented to the University of British Columbia - Simon Fraser University Institute on the Recurring Questions of Technology, held on the University of British Columbia campus, July 13, 2012.
Pinar, W. F. (2013a). Modernity, technology, nationality. Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices, 798(2), 3-19.
Pinar, W. F. (2013b). Curriculum studies in the United States: Present circumstances, Intellectual histories. New York, NY: Palgrave Pivot Series, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pinar, W. F. (2015). Educational experience as lived: Knowledge, history, alterity: The selected works of William F. Pinar. New York, NY: Routledge. Taylor & Francis.
Primetime Video (2004). Assumption High School Library, Majuro, Republic of Marshall Islands.
Raisinghani, L. (Ed.). (2005). Voice of the people: A tribute to nuclear victims and survivors. Majuro, Marshall Islands: Assumption High School.
Randall, P. (2001). Bullying in adulthood: Assessing the bullies and their victims. Hove: Brunner-Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203469224
Reproductive Cloning: Ethical and Social Issues (2004). In Human Genetics Alert. Retrieved November 29, 2012 from http://www.hgalert.org/topics/cloning/cloning.PDF
Resture, Jane (2012). Focus on Nauru-Jane’s Oceania Home Page. Retrieved November 29, 2012 from http://www.janeresture.com/nauru_focus/
Roschelle, J., Pea, R., Hoadley, C., Gordin, D., & Means, B. (2000). Changing how and what children learn in school with computer-based technologies. The Future of Children, 10(2), 76-101. Retrieved November 29, 2012 from http://ctl.sri.com/publications/downloads/PackardChangingLearning.pdf
Rowan, C. (2008). Reviewing the impact of technology on child development and behavior. Accessibility News International. Retrieved November 29, 2012 from http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/reviewing-the-impact-of-technology-on-child-development-and-behavior-2/
Schubert, W. H. (1997). Curriculum: Perspective, paradigm and possibility. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc.
Sikorski, J. (n.d.). The negative impact of baby DVDs. In Santa Clarita Family. Retrieved November 29, 2012 from http://www.santaclaritafamily.com/parenting/negative-impact-baby-dvds
Silverman, R. E. (2012). Study: Face time benefits Preteens. In The Juggle. Retrieved November 29, 2012 from http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2012/01/30/study-face-time-benefits-preteens/
Trueit, D. L. (2005). Complexifying the Poetic: Toward a poiesis of curriculum. Doctoral Dissertation. Louisiana State University.
Wang, S. (2009). University instructor perceptions of the benefits of technology use in E-learning. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering, 1, 580-585. doi:10.1109/ICCEE.2009.275
Wenglinski, H. (1998). Does it compute? The relationship between educational technology and student achievement in mathematics. Princeton, NJ: Policy Information Center. Retrieved November 29, 2012 from http://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/PICTECHNOLOG.pdf
Wieman, C. E., Adams, W. K., Loeblein, P., & Perkins, K. K. (2010). Teaching physics using PhET simulations. Physics Teacher, 48(4), 225-227.
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