Critical Perspectives on Technology and Education

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Critical Is Something Others (Don’t) Do: Mapping the Imaginative of Educational Technology....Pages 1-13
Gorillas in Their Midst: Rethinking Educational Technology....Pages 15-34
The Work of Theory in Ed-Tech Research....Pages 35-50
Extending Understandings of Educational Technology: Teachers’ Critiques of Educational Technology as Important Intellectual Capital for Researchers....Pages 51-68
Digital Play: What Do Early Childhood Teachers See?....Pages 69-84
Youth Breaking New “Ground”: Iconicity and Meaning Making in Social Media....Pages 85-104
The Scripted Sandbox: Children’s Gameplay and Ludic Gendering....Pages 105-125
The (Mis)Use of Community of Practice: Delusion, Confusion, and Instrumentalism in Educational Technology Research....Pages 127-140
Researching with Heart in Ed-Tech: What Opportunities Does the Socially Indeterminate Character of Technological Artifacts Open up for Affirming Emergent and Marginalized Practices?....Pages 141-161
Teaching the “Other”: Curriculum “Outcomes” and Digital Technology in the Out-of-School Lives of Young People....Pages 163-181
Translocalization in Digital Writing, Orders of Literacy, and Schooled Literacy....Pages 183-201
The Lake Highlands One-to-One Laptop Initiative: NCLB, Drill and Practice and the Formation of a Relational Network....Pages 203-225
The Global and the Local: Taking Account of Context in the Push for Technologization of Education....Pages 227-244
Technology and Education—Why It’s Crucial to be Critical....Pages 245-255
Back Matter....Pages 257-265