{"id":2610,"date":"2015-04-17T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2015-04-17T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:22:09","slug":"ed-techs-inequalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/ed-techs-inequalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed-Tech&#8217;s Inequalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/hackeducation.com\/2015\/04\/08\/inequalities\/\">brilliant rant<\/a> by Audrey Watters<\/p>\n<p>Starts off this way:<br \/>\n\u201cEducation is the civil rights issue of our time,\u201d you\u2019ll often hear politicians and education reform types say.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan back in 2010, for example:<br \/>\nEducation is still the key to eliminating gender inequities, to reducing poverty, to creating a sustainable planet, and to fostering peace. And in a knowledge economy, education is the new currency by which nations maintain economic competitiveness and global prosperity. \u2026Closing the achievement gap and closing the opportunity gap is the civil rights issue of our generation.<br \/>\nTo the contrary, I maintain that civil rights remain the civil rights issue of our generation. When we see, for example, the Supreme Court overturn part of the Voting Rights Act, when we see rampant police violence against marginalized groups, when we see backlash against affirmative action and against Title IX protections, when we see pervasive discrimination \u2013 institutionalized \u2013 in people\u2019s daily lives, when we see widespread inequalities \u2013 socioeconomic stratification based on race, ethnicity, gender, geography \u2013 we need to admit: there are things that, as Tressie McMillan Cottom has argued, the \u201ceducation gospel cannot fix.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd yet the dominant narrative \u2013 the gospel, if you will \u2013 about education and, increasingly education technology, is that it absolutely is \u201cthe fix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>and ends this way:<br \/>\nEducation technology simply does not confront systemic inequalities. Or rather, it often substitutes access to a computing device or high speed Internet for institutional or structural change. Education technology routinely fails to address power or privilege. It fails to recognize, let alone examine, its history. It insists instead on stories about meritocracy and magic and claims about \u201cblindness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>with a lot of provocative thinking in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliant rant by Audrey Watters Starts off this way: \u201cEducation is the civil rights issue of our time,\u201d you\u2019ll often hear politicians and education reform types say. Here\u2019s US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan back in 2010, for example: Education is still the key to eliminating gender inequities, to reducing poverty, to creating a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3109,3108,3110],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audrey-watters","tag-ed-tech","tag-seymour-papert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}