I’ve enjoyed thinking and learning about technology and tools with everyone these past couple weeks.<\/p>\n
I really liked Martha’s three words to keep in mind when considering these issues: positionality, intentionality, and transparency. I think these three words were a through-line in a lot of the readings and are all things I am working to integrate in ALL decisions I make about my teaching, but particularly around using (or not using) any technology.<\/p>\n
One tension I noticed in the annotations and portfolio submissions was around what I would call a baseline orientation towards technology. Some folks are kind of inherently optimistic and open to exploring new tools as they come along, and some folks have a more cynical or dubious outlook. I would probably put myself in the latter category. As I reflect, I think there are probably two reasons why.<\/p>\n
First is that I have myself as a student never had any major epiphanies that required technology. Most of my fondest memories as a student revolve around really engaged deep discussion with other people in the same room. I have also spent time in universities in Madagascar near where I do ethnographic research, and often classrooms there are really barebones … and yet, students are learning and professors are teaching. So I think my baseline orientation as a skeptic of technology has something to do with those experiences.<\/p>\n
Second, I think that I struggle to separate technologies from the companies and boardrooms where those tools are developed and marketed. Can I, should I, separate the tech from the tech-bro who made it and profits when I use it? Even when teaching tools don’t have a clear link to a sucky company or celebrity-CEO, I think this dynamic elsewhere has helped to make me less likely to jump at the opportunity to integrate technology more in my teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"design_bite_tag":[],"design_bite_type":[],"df_module":[176],"genai_activity":[],"mini_syllabi_group":[],"portfolio_type":[47],"class_list":["post-178826","portfolio_part","type-portfolio_part","status-publish","hentry","df_module-tech","portfolio_type-written-reflection","wpbf-post"],"edit_form_id":"27","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_part\/178826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_part"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio_part"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_part\/178826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"design_bite_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/design_bite_tag?post=178826"},{"taxonomy":"design_bite_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/design_bite_type?post=178826"},{"taxonomy":"df_module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/df_module?post=178826"},{"taxonomy":"genai_activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genai_activity?post=178826"},{"taxonomy":"mini_syllabi_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mini_syllabi_group?post=178826"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colab.plymouthcreate.net\/design-forward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_type?post=178826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}