Sorry the post title is a bit OTT, but it’s direct (until I find a better one)!
- Starting point is Basil Bernstein who said, ,to paraphrase, ‘all society is pedagogical’. Something like that. There used to be a word in common use in the 70s: ‘socialisation’. Not much now.
- It is useful because it implies an active process on integration. It is therefore pedagogical because it involves the transmission of social and cultural mores. However, the word ‘socialisation’ alone does not imply any particular character of the integration. It is simply a process, how we become participants in any kind of community no matter how good … or how bad, as large as a nation, or smaller than a household.
- Socialisation is ongoing, lifelong. It never stops so that over time, for example, values that were once held true can become transgressive.
- There is no clear boundary, nor can there be, between daily life in a community and the place that technology plays in enabling, disrupting, ‘nudging’, or sometimes blocking activities.
- This is a dynamic process for all technologies which can be both a result of earlier social situations as well as a cause of social change.
- Change is usually incremental (or ‘normal’ in a Kuhnian sense) and occasionally revolutionary (‘extraordinary’ in a Kuhnian sense).
- Edtech is intimately woven into the lifelong socialisation of all members of a society
Notes:
Thomas Hillman (@thomhillman) tweeted at 7:05 am on Fri, Apr 01, 2022:
People often ask me how the platformization of education is different from educational technology in general. The big difference is that the center of coordination changes. We’ve moved from technology in classrooms to classrooms in technology. #edtech (https://twitter.com/thomhillman/status/1509773871901196289?t=dAIoKvfwLYYkQP_dCAEhXQ&s=03)