Category: Technology and Education Futures
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Topic 4 – Coding and Children
In this essay, I will briefly discuss the idea behind getting children to learn to code and what it means in terms of competencies required to thrive in today’s world. The idea that computers might be extremely conducive to developing the thinking skills of children was first put forward by Seymour Papert, a computer scientist,…
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Topic 1 – Education in the Digital/ Networked Age
In this video, the U.S. based non-profit Transcend, which professes to help school communities become more equitable, talks about how although the world would be unrecognizable in many ways since the late nineteenth century, one establishment that has not changed much at all is the school. Even if a nineteenth century student were to be…
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Topic 5 – My Digital Education Future (Part 2)
I looked to research for hope (or the absence of it). There have not been many studies yet on how the pedagogy of teaching creativity will shape up in the wake of ChatGPT. One study did find that readers did not mind whether an interesting article was produced by a machine or a human and…
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Topic 5 – My Digital Education Future (Part 1)
Experience My experience as an educator has predominantly been for the last two and a half years, and during this time, I have mainly engaged in two areas: Interestingly, both these engagements have been possible only due to digital technology as they have all been remote classes. In a sense then, I am extremely indebted…
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Topic 3 – Virtual Reality in Education (Part 2)
Metaverse – The Promise An idea such as the metaverse primarily rests on the promise of a high level of an immersive experience, with the following implications (Dwivedi et al., 2022). However, these points all rest on some fundamental tenets: that the technology is well designed, well implemented, and well regulated. And therein lie the…
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Topic 2 – Critical Digital Literacy
In recent years, especially in the wake of the 2016 US Presidential election and Brexit, there has been a growing concern about false information derailing civic and political life. When public engagement is highly regulated by the Internet, it makes sense to say that literacy is linked to democracy itself (Polizzi, 2020). Digital literacy It…
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Topic 3 – Virtual Reality in Education (Part 1)
It seems to me that increasingly we are in a place where we are offered more forms of technology, and we are quite not sure what we will fill it with. In this post, I will discuss virtual reality and its implications for education, particularly in the context of the Metaverse. Hello, VR! The term…
Sinduja Ragunathan 