Week 8 was dedicated to developing ideas for Assignment 4, hence working on Assignment 3 as the class shared ideas and feedback in preparation for pitching in week 9. I was unable to attend class on Tuesday but found everyone’s ideas for future utopian technologies and worlds extremely interesting on Friday. From using technology to solve environmental issues to using Virtual Reality in hospitals for patient wellbeing; I believe our final studio website will have a great diversity of ideas and future technology exploration.
I was admit-tingly struggling with ideas after already including future-positive predictions in my previous assignment. But I have decided to explore technologies role in the future of education and achieving education equality.
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences’ article dedicated to technologies and virtual teaching environments made four major notes, one being “new technologies can bring high-quality curriculum, instruction, and peers to schools that have difficulty recruiting these resources owing to residential segregation, educator preference, and differential ability to raise funds,” also noting technologies use as as education substitute, although as such still “requires skilled teachers or students with strong prior skills,” as well as greater flexibility and ease of customising individual learning needs (Jacob, Berger, Hart, Loeb 2020). Such technologies and environments examined are still fringe examples in regular education, and although many students are engaging with university and equation through technology right now, it is temporary in the scheme of institutions and learning traditions. In addition to this, such technology did not achieve education equality; as outlined in the article.
Hence I believe my video piece for assignment 4 will be predicting how education technologies will be developed and how their implementation will affect the tradition, cultures and access of education in Australia. It will be presented as a fictional future pitch for a new education curriculum.
Reference:
Jacob, Berger, Hart & Loeb (2020). Can Technology Help Promote Equality of Educational Opportunities? The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 242-271.