教育技术与民主学习

Educational Technology and Democratic Learning

学校教育中教育技术的政治内涵、结构主义和网络技术对课堂中的民主学习产生了较大影响。在建构主义学习理论和网络技术广泛应用的背景下,不应该把教育技术仅仅当成实现社会再生产的工具,应该大力提倡学生的民主学习。但是,也要尽量避免唯技术倾向,克服教育技术应用过程中产生的负面影响。

This article examines whether the ubiquitous presence of technology in schools negatively affects democratic learning by promoting instrumental rationality and, hence, reifying social reality. The author suggests that structural critiques of educational technology ignore the considerable impact of human agency on shaping related learning outcomes. By combining Dewey＇s constructivism with Internet technology, the article suggests student agency and participatory democratic learning are actually encouraged. Rather than condemning educational techttology as necessarily socially reproductive, then, the author concludes that democratic educators should appropriate classroom technologies and utilize them in ways to promote the critical consciousness of students.