Decolonizing our technology
I just wanted to reflect on the critiques on technology and remote learning. These are some of the things I noticed about why it failed during the pandemic. It's dehumanizing-it created an inauthentic way of communicating and dialoguing. It's hard to troubleshoot-managing everything remotely had its technological issues and debugging. It's inequitable-it created an environment that isolated individuals, especially those with a lack of resources and overwhelming circumstances. Technology, especially this concept of hybrid learning, was not build for a pandemic. But, using technology is not a failing strategy or approach to bridge the gaps of our inequities in society. We must not condemn it but embrace. From the ISTE 2021 conferenece, I heard from youth voices explaining that we must decolonize technology to make it meaningful and impactful. Technology is a language that is so customary and standard to the new generation and we, as educators, must adapt or see our next gene
