{"id":229,"date":"2020-10-20T21:43:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T04:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/?p=229"},"modified":"2020-10-20T21:45:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T04:45:13","slug":"activity-6-role-of-ed-in-future-ed-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/activity-6-role-of-ed-in-future-ed-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity 6: Role of &#8220;Ed&#8221; in future Ed Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/teacher-computer?utm_source=unsplash&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_content=creditCopyText&quot;&gt;Unsplash&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2020\/10\/you-x-ventures-Oalh2MojUuk-unsplash.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-230 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2020\/10\/you-x-ventures-Oalh2MojUuk-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2020\/10\/you-x-ventures-Oalh2MojUuk-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2020\/10\/you-x-ventures-Oalh2MojUuk-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2020\/10\/you-x-ventures-Oalh2MojUuk-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@youxventures?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">You X Ventures<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/teacher-computer?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I would very much like to take up the suggestion from Selwyn et al. (2020, p.105) to construct more optimistic stories for the future of education than they had, but don&#8217;t know if I can. As I read through the assigned readings, I reviewed each scenario and asked myself two main questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would I like to be a student or educator in this speculative situation?<\/li>\n<li>How likely do I think that this speculated scenario will be reality?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I unfortunately concluded that the situations I disliked the most also seem most likely to occur in future. For instance, Macgilchrist et al. (2020, p. 77) proposed in their Scenario One, smooth users, competent subjects, that under the guise of helping society, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and education technology businesses would be highly influential in future education. This corporate influence would result in having key positions to advise at administrative or governmental levels, not a far-fetched idea even in the present.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of the smooth user could be applied to personalized stories crafted by Singh and Maughan. I think stories proposed such as <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/futures-exchange\/the-future-of-ed-tech-is-here-its-just-not-evenly-distributed-210778a423d7\">Iona and Kumar,<\/a> trained to be smooth users, are the most likely future reality if the \u201ctech\u201d in Ed Tech takes the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Weller\u2019s thoughts of Ed Tech&#8217;s dystopian turn and the first general theme\u00a0 concluded from 25 years of Ed Tech came to my thoughts frequently as I reviewed the scenarios and vignettes from the readings. \u00a0I could not help but suppose that the common denominator for most of these scenarios was that as Weller said: \u00a0\u201ctechnology has been the dominant force in ed tech, its prevalence in society now means that the educational component needs to come to the fore\u201d. (2020, p.180).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not exactly sure where I\u2019m going with this, but I noticed when reviewing the majority of the scenarios that I was asking: where is the education part of Ed Tech fitting in to the future?<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>Macgilchrist, F., Allert, H., &amp; Bruch, A. (2020). Students and society in the 2020s. Three future \u2018histories\u2019 of education and technology. <em>Learning, Media and Technology<\/em>, <em>45<\/em>(1), 76\u201389. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17439884.2019.1656235\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17439884.2019.1656235<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Singh, S., Maughan, T. (2014, June 18). <em>The future of ed tech is here and it\u2019s just not evenly distributed.<\/em> [Blog post]. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/futures-exchange\/the-future-of-ed-tech-is-here-its-just-not-evenly-distributed-210778a423d7\">https:\/\/medium.com\/futures-exchange\/the-future-of-ed-tech-is-here-its-just-not-evenly-distributed-210778a423d7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Selwyn, N., Pangrazio, L., Nemorin, S., &amp; Perrotta, C. (2020). What might the school of 2030 be like? An exercise in social science fiction. <em>Learning, Media and Technology<\/em>, <em>45<\/em>(1), 90\u2013106. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17439884.2020.1694944\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17439884.2020.1694944<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weller, M. (2020). <em>25 Years of Ed Tech<\/em>. Athabasca University Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15215\/aupress\/9781771993050.01\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15215\/aupress\/9781771993050.01<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by You X Ventures on Unsplash I would very much like to take up the suggestion from Selwyn et al. (2020, p.105) to construct more optimistic stories for the future of education than they had, but don&#8217;t know if I can. As I read through the assigned readings, I reviewed each scenario and asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-lrnt523","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}