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Technology As Technocracy: Pre-Service Teachers’ Conscientious Use Of Technology For Authentic Family Engagement, Katherine Barko-Alva, Lisa Porter, Soccorro Herrera Jan 2020

Technology As Technocracy: Pre-Service Teachers’ Conscientious Use Of Technology For Authentic Family Engagement, Katherine Barko-Alva, Lisa Porter, Soccorro Herrera

School of Education Book Chapters

Pre-service and in-service teachers nationwide are asking the following questions: Could we have been more prepared? COVID-19 has made public and transparent the digital inequalities of today’s schools, particularly for culturally and linguistically diverse (i.e., CLD) students and their families. How can technology be used in a proactive way regardless of context to identify and document both the technological needs and assets of students and their families beyond the question of who is or is not connected? This chapter encourages educators to shift their current technological pedagogical practices by exploring possible solutions that pull-in family biographies rather than follow prescribed …