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The willy-nilly embracing of #AI in education and #ChatGPT in particular has got me thinking again about the importance of rubrics for the evaluation of education technology. I think we are at a place where all of the efforts that have gone into the vetting of education technology are more important than ever.
#edtech #highered
https://geoffcain.com/blog/look-before-we-leap-evaluating-ed-tech/

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Felicitas Macgilchrist Apr 22, 2023

@geoffcain You might also like this one, should definitely be on your list: https://citejournal.org/volume-22/issue-4-22/current-practice/confronting-tools-of-the-oppressor-framing-just-technology-integration-in-educational-technology-and-teacher-education/

Confronting Tools of the Oppressor: Framing Just Technology Integration in Educational Technology and Teacher Education – CITE Journal

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Felicitas Macgilchrist Apr 22, 2023

@geoffcain Actually, perhaps also this one. The technoethical questions they list in Table 1 are gold: https://www.learntechlib.org/p/208235/

#technoethics

Foregrounding Technoethics: Toward Critical Perspectives in Technology and Teacher Education

The Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs) were created to help all teacher educators support teacher candidates as they prepare to become technology-using teachers. The TETCs largely focus on teaching with technology. However, one of the 12 competencies, TETC 9, offers an opportunity to delve into teaching about technology which might allow for the foregrounding technoethical issues in everyday classroom uses of technologies. In this article, we offer theoretical critique of epistemological, ontological, and historical commitments that are implicitly or explicitly communicated in...