Katherine 🎶📚: This was an interesting read that's only become more relevant since its publication in 2017. The push to implement technology into our instruction is often touted as a virtue in its own right, regardless of whether or not it's necessary or even beneficial to students' learning.

This was an interesting read that's only become more relevant since its publication in 2017. The push to implement technology into our instruction is often touted as a virtue in its own right, regardless of whether or not it's necessary or even beneficial to students' learning.

The Rise of Educational Technology as a Sociocultural and Ideological Phenomenoner.educause.edu The push for educational technology exists within a broader political, economic, ideological, and technological context. The all-too-common ignorance

If you look on EduSky at any given moment, you'll find dozens of posts by education consultants and various other tech influencers pushing op-eds about what AI can do for teachers, or the benefits of "eLearning". All of this is presented as completely value neutral. It isn't.

The push for EdTech is predicated on the belief that education can be automated, which implicitly devalues all of the interpersonal work that goes into teaching. Anyone who's actually taught knows that nurturing and fostering relationships is absolutely vital to students' (and teachers') success.

This is also part of a broader tendency of bureaucracy to overlook/erase caring and nurturing forms of labor, which are overwhelmingly performed by women. Much of society's mistreatment of teachers makes more sense when you keep in mind that teaching children is traditionally viewed as women's work.

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