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TY - JOUR
TI - Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis
AU - Selwyn, Neil
T2 - E-Learning and Digital Media
AB - Despite climate heating and rising ecological instability, environmental issues feature rarely in discussions of educational technology. Most commentators presume the continued unfettered use of digital education resources bolstered by occasional claims that emerging technologies might support the ?greening? of school and university provision. In contrast to such business-as-usual complacency, this article anticipates ongoing environmental degradation of the planet as radically upending the continued expansion of digital technologies in education. On the one hand, depletion of natural resources and energy curtailments might put paid to established ?abundant? forms of digital technology use. On the other hand, more frequent climate-related disasters might necessitate emergency forms of education for displaced and unsettled populations. As such, the article argues for a new paradigm of educational technology that is both wholly sustainable and targeted towards displaced and disadvantaged populations. The article considers a number of ways that such an ?Ed-Tech Within Limits? might be pursued ? outlining fundamental shifts in thinking necessary to reorient educational technology along environmentally concerned lines.
DA - 2021/09/01/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1177/20427530211022951
DP - SAGE Journals
VL - 18
IS - 5
SP - 496
EP - 510
LA - en
PB - SAGE Publications
SN - 2042-7530
ST - Ed-Tech Within Limits
UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/20427530211022951
Y2 - 2022/11/16/06:56:32
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TY - JOUR
TI - Ed-tech within limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis
AU - Selwyn, Neil
T2 - E-Learning and Digital Media
AB - Despite climate heating and rising ecological instability, environmental issues feature rarely in discussions of educational technology. Most commentators presume the continued unfettered use of digital education resources bolstered by occasional claims that emerging technologies might support the ‘greening’ of school and university provision. In contrast to such business-as-usual complacency, this article anticipates ongoing environmental degradation of the planet as radically upending the continued expansion of digital technologies in education. On the one hand, depletion of natural resources and energy curtailments might put paid to established ‘abundant’ forms of digital technology use. On the other hand, more frequent climate-related disasters might necessitate emergency forms of education for displaced and unsettled populations. As such, the article argues for a new paradigm of educational technology that is both wholly sustainable and targeted towards displaced and disadvantaged populations. The article considers a number of ways that such an ‘Ed-Tech Within Limits’ might be pursued – outlining fundamental shifts in thinking necessary to reorient educational technology along environmentally concerned lines.
DA - 2021/09/01/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1177/20427530211022951
DP - SAGE Journals
VL - 18
IS - 5
SP - 496
EP - 510
LA - EN
PB - SAGE Publications
SN - 2042-7530
ST - Ed-tech within limits
UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/20427530211022951
Y2 - 2025/06/09/00:16:05
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