Cyborgs and Cyberpunks: Implications of Digital Literacies in Schooling

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Author(s): Douglas J. Loveless (James Madison University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 14
Source title: Academic Knowledge Construction and Multimodal Curriculum Development
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Douglas J. Loveless (James Madison University, USA), Bryant Griffith (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA), Margaret E. Bérci (College of Staten Island-CUNY, USA), Evan Ortlieb (Monash University, Australia)and Pamela M. Sullivan (James Madison University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4797-8.ch001

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Education / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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This conceptual chapter introduces theoretical issues to consider when reflecting on digital technologies in educational processes. Rather than beginning this book with a practical discussion of how to employ digital technologies as teaching or learning tools, the ideas presented here, and in this section of the book, provide a beginning to philosophically probing the implications of integrating such technologies into schooling. This type of reflection, initiated in this chapter and developed further in others, should continue throughout the book to inform perspectives shaped when reading about more practical matters. Ideally, theory and practice concerning digital technologies form a cyclical relationship. The dialogue presented here on empowerment, identity, and social/corporate globalization will hopefully lead to a Freirian notion of praxis involving reflection and action that transforms the world.

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