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ERIC Number: EJ1436153
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 29
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1059-7069
EISSN: EISSN-1943-5924
Promoting a Critical Perspective on Educational Technology in a Pre-Service Teacher Education Course
Jacob Pleasants; Jeffrey Radloff
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, v32 n2 p187-215 2024
Teachers must be prepared to make informed choices about which technologies to adopt and how to implement those technologies in judicious ways. To support those choices, they need a critical "technoskeptical" perspective attentive to both the benefits and unintended effects of educational technologies. This study presents our effort to help elementary pre-service teachers (PSTs) develop a technoskeptical stance during an undergraduate educational technology course. A group of 45 elementary PSTs participated in ongoing learning activities designed to foster technoskeptical inquiries of educational technologies. Using a mixed methods approach, we analyzed PSTs' responses to those learning activities and their pre-and post-course philosophies of educational technology. We found that the inquiries did lead PSTs to adopt more technoskeptical views in their philosophies of educational technologies. Those changes were most substantial for the PSTs who demonstrated deeper critical analyses during those learning activities. However, changes in PSTs' thinking were not always what we intended or expected, pointing to a complex learning process. These nuanced findings imply a reevaluation of conventional perspectives on educational technologies and reinforce the urgency of cultivating technoskepticism in future educators.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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