The Politics of Education and Technology

1. Introduction: The Need for a Politics of Education and Technology; Neil Selwyn and Keri Facer PART I: RECOGNIZING THE POLITICS OF "LEARNING" AND TECHNOLOGY 2. Educational Technology and the "New Language of Learning": Lineage and Limitations; Norm Friesen 3. Networked Cosmopolitanism? Shaping Learners by Remaking the Curriculum of the Future; Ben Williamson PART II: THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY AND RISK 4. Becoming the Future: The "Lake Highlands" Middle School Laptop and Learning Initiative; David Shutkin 5. The Politics of Online Risk and the Discursive Construction of School "E-safety"; Andrew Hope PART III: THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY 6."Empowering the World's Poorest Children"? A Critical Examination of One Laptop Per Child; Neil Selwyn 7. Changing Narratives of Change: (Un)intended Consequences of Educational Technology Reform in Argentina; Inés Dussel, Patricia Ferrante, and Julian Sefton-Green 8. The Ideological Appropriation of Digital Technology in UK Education: Symbolic Violence and the Selling and Buying of the "Transformation Fallacy"; Timothy Rudd PART IV: THE POLITICS OF EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY: EXTENDING BEYOND "THE DIGITAL" 9. Mobile Technologies and an Ethical Digital Literacy in the Face of Empire; Richard Hall 10. Tweak: Biosocial Imaginations and Educational Futures; Nick Lee and Johanna Motzkau 11. Epilogue: Building Allegiances and Moving Forward; Keri Facer and Neil Selwyn