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The always thought-provoking @BenPatrickWill on politicisation of "digital transformation".
IMHO the rush to technology as solution nearly always negates consideration of students and their material circumstances. COVID19 experiences laid this bare. https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/bringing-politics-back-in-to-plans-for-the-digital-transformation-of-higher-education/
IMHO the rush to technology as solution nearly always negates consideration of students and their material circumstances. COVID19 experiences laid this bare. https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/bringing-politics-back-in-to-plans-for-the-digital-transformation-of-higher-education/
I have no problems with the concept of digital transformation per se, but the frame is usually all wrong in that it foregrounds technology at the expense of our mission, purpose, values. I regularly return to this quote from Aaron Benanav.
What would digital transformation look like with human dignity at the core? What technical changes and choices would we make in pursuit of a just, equitable, accessible education system?
For me, this is a far more interesting and ultimately transformative agenda to pursue and requires genuine innovation and creativity.
What it doesn't require is automation, data, and surveillance technologies repackaged and redeployed from other sectors (see e.g. "cop shit").
What it doesn't require is automation, data, and surveillance technologies repackaged and redeployed from other sectors (see e.g. "cop shit").
I didn't love the way this article was edited, but I did an interview thing a couple of years back on cloud technologies in education and amongst the jargon it has some of the key things I believe: https://edtechnology.co.uk/latest-news/roundtable-heads-in-the-cloud-2/
Cloud technologies that centre human dignity and creativity include initiatives like Domain of One's Own #DoOO (h/t @jimgroom) & cloud technologies that centre equity and access to education include things like #remoteLabs (h/t @TimothyDrysdale).
