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Monday, January 19, 2004
Virtual Education, Real Educators: Issues in Online Learning - Review by Virginia Kuhn, Kairos
Cynthia Selfe's memorable keynote, later made into an influential book, delivered at the 1998 Conference on College Composition and Communication challenged educators to become actively involved in shaping the pedagogical applications of emergent technologies. According to Selfe, since technology and literacy "have become linked in ways that exacerbate current educational and social inequities in the United States" (Selfe), teachers, however reluctant or ill prepared, are obliged to investigate, evaluate, and critique educational hardware and software in an attempt to ensure their pedagogical soundness. Failure to do so, Selfe argues, only perpetuates existing modes of structural oppression. If teachers wish to avoid complicity, therefore, they must produce scholarship that critically engages technological issues. Virtual Education, Real Educators: Issues in Online Learning, a text published by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation and written by members of its board, just may represent the quintessential effort that Selfe envisioned.
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