{"id":294,"date":"2022-10-19T18:35:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/?p=294"},"modified":"2022-10-19T18:41:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:41:16","slug":"activity-7-exploring-possible-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/activity-7-exploring-possible-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity 7: Exploring Possible Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:22px\">As part of the MALAT program, we have focused on the many benefits of Ed-Tech, but when completing the unit 3 readings, I was struck by some of the negative environmental impacts outlined by Selwyn (2011) in \u201cEd-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis\u201d.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:22px\">For the last assignment as part of LRNT523 Foundations of Learning and Technologies, I will be taking a closer look at the potential outcomes of these impacts in the not-so-distant future if a considered and balanced approach is not taken now in the Ed-Tech space. As a result of the preliminary research I have done on the topic, I will focus my essay on three key impacts on the environment and the fallout associated with vulnerable populations: energy consumption, e-waste, and material mining, such as lithium and cobalt, associated with Ed-Tech.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:20px\">References <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:20px\"> Selwyn, N. (2021). Ed-tech within Limits: Anticipating education technology in times of environmental crisis. <em>E-Learning and Digital Media, 18(5),<\/em> 496-510\u00a0 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/20427530211022951\" target=\"_blank\">doi.org\/10.1177\/20427530211022951<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the MALAT program, we have focused on the many benefits of Ed-Tech, but when completing the unit 3 readings, I was struck by some of the negative environmental impacts outlined by Selwyn (2011) in \u201cEd-Tech Within Limits:&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/activity-7-exploring-possible-futures\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt523","tag-lrt523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0266\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}