Technology & Our Collective Futures by Beatrice Dias https://padlet.com/bea_dias/Futures Share 2-3 takeaways from each resource in the core material from Module 3 of our Technology in Context course. en-us 2022-10-31 16:36:23 UTC 2024-11-19 15:49:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Mechanization and Programmed Instruction https://padlet.com/bea_dias/Futures/wish/3224506224 When reading this text here were my takeaways:

  1. On pg. 218 of the text when Goodman was discussing Mechanization, I thought about the question, "Does mechanization lead to a more meaningful education or does it strip humanity (pg.9) from the classroom?

  2. I saw value in the quote, "Programmed instruction should not be done in isolation." (pg. 11)

  3. Lastly I learning about the connections between mechanization and behavioral programming through technology connected to the Freedom Summer. This quote was extremely powerful and serves as a reminder for us in education "Prescriptive behavioral programming could never lead to freedom."

]]> 2024-11-19 15:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bea_dias/Futures/wish/3224506224 Addressing the Obvious https://padlet.com/bea_dias/Futures/wish/3224513051 “The New Jim Code hides in plain sight, producing inequity while appearing to be the work of objective and neutral systems.”- This quote stuck out to me because this course has allowed me to see how the inequities and discriminations embedded in technology design is right in front of us but we lack the ability to see it because those who are oppressed are not a part of the process but use the result.

“Imagination is not a luxury—it is a form of resistance. To imagine a different world is to refuse the inevitability of the status quo.”-This stuck out to me because I think often we ridicule or do not provide space and opportunity for the imagination especially in secondary education which causes us to lose our activists and ability

to fix the New Jim code.

]]> 2024-11-19 15:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/bea_dias/Futures/wish/3224513051 Afrofuturism is Necessary to Change the Perspective of African History and Culture https://padlet.com/bea_dias/Futures/wish/3224519398 I love that this story could be used in my high school African American history class as I discuss the value in studying and exploring African history and culture while acknowledging the false narrative and erased history connected to the continent.

In staying to fight, the emphasis is not on looking for other people to fix the problem but being an active participant to solving the problem which emphasizes the capability of the people and also makes me think about the importance of imagination as a part of resistance. Connecting this further more to the story Jemisin suggests that hope lies not in abandoning broken systems but in the hard, messy work of reimagining and rebuilding them.

]]> 2024-11-19 15:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bea_dias/Futures/wish/3224519398 Are educators now the perpetrators? https://padlet.com/bea_dias/Futures/wish/3224528262 When listening to this presentation here are the thoughts/questions that came to mind:

  1. How are educator's perpetuating hostile technology? Thinking about the pandemic and push for instruction to be embedded through an app or software programming; have we as educator's thought about the ways we are creating hostile learning environments for our students?

  2. Psychological safety has become a hot topic issue in my district for us as employees, so thinking about in the classroom brought new perspective thinking about the various ways we add to the endless consumption of technology through our instructional practices. In some ways the education system can be hypocritical as we acknowledge students do not have the soft skills they need but continue to embed them with "programmed instruction" mandated by our districts because of the functionality and universal design these programs have to offer.

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