ABSTRACT

Background

The transition to technology-mediated remote schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic represented a drastic shift in educational technologies’ function in K-12 settings. This theoretical paper sought to: (1) identify key developments in technology-use during the pandemic; (2) situate current events within the Learning Sciences’ evolving conceptualizations of educational technologies; and (3) outline how these developments should reframe our thinking about educational technologies.

Methods

The paper is structured along three sets of relations, intended to support analyses that go beyond determinist or instrumental depictions of educational technologies: education-technology, human-technology, and human-education.

Findings

I outline three key characteristics of educational technologies’ function during the pandemic: they were central to the grammar of schooling, their use was widespread across social contexts, and was need-driven rather than innovation-driven.

Contribution

Accordingly, the paper suggests reorienting existing conceptualizations of educational technologies: (i) rethinking learning—avoiding the portrayal of technologies as solutions to educational problems and examining how they reshape learning; (ii) rethinking context—attending more to how socio-cultural, political, and historical features inform technological affordances; (iii) rethinking teaching—emphasizing adults’ role in mediating the normative commitments underlying technology-use, particularly in light of the dominance of commercial platforms and tools.

中文翻译：

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什么样的革命？在 COVID-19 时代思考和重新思考教育技术

摘要

背景

在 COVID-19 大流行期间向以技术为媒介的远程教育的过渡代表了 K-12 环境中教育技术功能的巨大转变。这篇理论论文旨在：（1）确定大流行期间技术使用的关键发展；(2) 将当前事件置于学习科学不断发展的教育技术概念中；(3) 概述这些发展应该如何重新构建我们对教育技术的思考。

方法

本文围绕三组关系构建，旨在支持超越对教育技术的确定性或工具性描述的分析：教育-技术、人类-技术和人类-教育。

发现

我概述了大流行期间教育技术功能的三个关键特征：它们是学校教育语法的核心，它们在社会环境中的广泛使用，并且是需求驱动而不是创新驱动。

贡献

因此，本文建议重新定位现有的教育技术概念：（i）重新思考学习——避免将技术描述为教育问题的解决方案，并研究它们如何重塑学习；(ii)重新思考背景——更多地关注社会文化、政治和历史特征如何影响技术可供性；(iii)重新思考教学——强调成年人在调解技术使用的规范性承诺中的作用，特别是考虑到商业平台和工具的主导地位。