Education Technology [chapter]

John Sabatini, Jae Park, Anya Chakraborty, Arthur Graesser, Thomas Macintyre, Manoj Chandrasekharan, Moses Oladele Ogunniran
2022 Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence based Education Assessment  
T his chapter assesses how technological innovations are emerging as one type of solution to the global educational challenges of the 21st Century. It surveys across a broad typology of technologies in the information and communication domain, discussing their scope and a ordances in traditional and non-traditional learning, curriculum design and instruction. With an overview of trends, bene ts, and risks posed by recent technological advances in education, the aim of the chapter is to present
more » ... balanced view of the Education Technology (EdTech) eld, highlighting the relevant and necessary concerns within the di erent spheres of EdTech. Speci cally, the chapter discusses critical issues of the digital divide, equitable access to EdTech, privacy and security concerns, the role of teachers and real-world classrooms in an increasingly digitised education setting, and debates concerning the ethical use of arti cial intelligence, big data analytics and machine learning. The assessment supports an optimistic but cautionary role for EdTech in addressing education challenges when coupled with continued social and cultural context-driven research. With respect to policy, the assessment concludes that it is worthwhile to encourage innovations and implementations of EdTech globally, accompanied by sensible regulatory guidelines on data sharing, breach of privacy, security, misuse and misrepresentation of claims about what EdTech can and cannot do.
doi:10.56383/sdro8173 fatcat:tcyb22kndfbhnk7iktqt7q6dya