Education

An interesting analysis by Steve Hodas. "Analyses of the deployment of technology in schools have tended to note its failure to affect the day-to-day values and practices of teachers, administrators, and students. This absence of trace is generally regarded as an implementation failure, or as resulting from some temperamental shortcoming on the part of teachers or technologists. Such a construction is predicated on the frequently tacit assumption that the refused technology is value-free and its implementation therefore not a field of struggle. This paper proposes that no technology is ever neutral: that its values and practices must always either support or subvert those of the organization into which it is placed; and that the failures of technology to alter the look-and-feel of schools frequently result from a mismatch between ...