Guerrilla EdTech responses to Climate Change: Reframing, Rewilding, Reimagining
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Clare Thomson
Frances Bell
Louise Drumm
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Team Presentation
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Clare Thomson�Assistant Professor
Heriot-Watt University
Frances Bell�Independent Scholar
Louise Drumm�Associate Professor
Edinburgh Napier University
Why
Do we need a more critical view of edtech with regards sustainability?
Given the ecological impact of edtech, alongside the ongoing commercialisation and learnification of education, the automation of teaching and the entanglement of edtech with surveillance capitalism or data colonialism, it can seem that edtech is more of a threat to education than a solution
Macgilchrist, F. (2021)
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Prompts for reflection
“I imagine an inclusive rewilding (Jørgensen, 2015), a decolonial rewilding, reflexive of power relations; a rewilding as ‘future-in-the-making’ (Allen, 2016), rather than a nostalgic ‘re’-turn to earlier ages.”
Macgilchrist, F. (2021)
A maker space
Choose at least one prompt from the list below & build your leaf
Template for the base: https://pixabay.com/vectors/leaf-blue-green-stylized-gradients-1821763/
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#1 Reframing
An inclusive rewilding (Jørgensen, 2015), a decolonial rewilding
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#2 Rewilding
Reflexive of power relations
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#3 Reimaging
A rewilding as ‘future-in-the-making’
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Reflections and Future Actions
Each table to feed back their overall reflections.
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References
References
‘Guerrilla gardening’ (2023) Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guerrilla_gardening&oldid=1133022765 (Accessed: 16 January 2023).
Klöwer, M. et al. (2020) ‘An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19’, Nature, 583(7816), pp. 356–359. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02057-2.
Macgilchrist, F. (2021) ‘Rewilding Technology’, On Education. Journal for Research and Debate, 4(12). Available at: https://doi.org/10.17899/on_ed.2021.12.2.
Markauskaite, L., Carvalho, L., & Fawns, T. (2023). The role of teachers in a sustainable university: from digital competencies to postdigital capabilities. Educational technology research and development : ETR & D, 1–18. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-023-10199-z
Selwyn, N. (2023) ‘Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology’, Learning, Media and Technology, pp. 1–14. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2159978.
Stonham, S. (2022) Exploring digital carbon footprints. Jisc. Available at: https://beta.jisc.ac.uk/reports/exploring-digital-carbon-footprints.
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Thanks!
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