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Sunday, March 17, 2002

http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_1/castell/index.html

Object Lessons: Towards an Educational Theory of Technology
Suzanne de Castell, Mary Bryson, and Jennifer Jenson

...It is proposed that one way of re-thinking the purposes and uses of new technologies for education might be to re-position common theoretical questions, asking not how education might use these new tools, but instead asking what, educationally, they might offer; instead of theorizing educational technology, then, the focus becomes an educational theory of technology. Adopting this reflexive stance, which views intervention activities as object lessons, provides instructive opportunities to learn from our tools even as we endeavor to rethink, not just their uses, but more fundamentally the prospects of digital technologies for reconceiving the very idea of a truly public education....

 



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