Technologies used in schooling
admin on October 13th, 2008
Technologies used in schooling include classrooms, chalkboards, books, podiums, graded classrooms, Still talking about education and Technology, chair-desk, bells, bell schedules, school buses, school buildings, playgrounds, athletic fields, band rooms, band instruments, colored chalk, the architecture of schools, p.a. systems, teacher certification systems, the ways we “divide” subjects into “disciplines,” testing (and other assessment approaches of all kinds), school districting, “catchment” areas, curriculum plans, “standards” statements, and many many other activities/processes/devices/frameworks. It is important to emphasize, “technology” isn’t just things, but the systems of ideas that legitimate and constrain the use of things.
On this expanded notion of technology, we can say that “schooling” is the application of technology to make mass education the mass alteration of the behaviors [and ideas] of [mostly young] people not only possible, but affordableand effective.
