Is Technology Good for Education

Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a 'good thing'.

Is Technology Good For Education? offers a critical counterpoint to this received wisdom, challenging some of the central ways in which digital technology is presumed to be positively affecting education. Instead Neil Selwyn considers what is being lost as digital technologies become ever more integral to education provision and engagement. Crucially, he questions the values, agendas and interests that stand to gain most from the rise of digital education.

This concise, up-to-the-minute analysis concludes by considering alternate approaches that might be capable of rescuing and perhaps revitalizing the ideals of public education, while not denying the possibilities of digital technology altogether.

Author: Neil Selwyn
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 05/16/2016
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 4.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780745696461

About the Author
Neil Selwyn is Professor at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne.

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