Ubiquitous Learning and Instructional Technologies MOOC’s Updates

UPDATE 2

I strongly enjoy Dr Cris Mayo's presentation. it broadens my horizon and opend up new venues. The story Dr Cris Mayo brought up about by Frankstein was really thought-provoking. I guess we will achieve the most benefit of a technology not solely by attempting to develop technology the best as we could, but even more importantly, what needs to be taken into consideration is the fact that we need to pave special grounds in advance to make technology perform as productively as possible. Therefore, we should not be expecting to flow naturally with the stream as it cannot happen. We have to deal with enormous issues coming up while we are creating and introducing new technologies to the world. They are supposed to be a life saver nor problem makers.

With the advent of technology, different related issues concerning Technologies had come up. Namely, digital divide, inequality and social justice, emerging educational roles of parents, gender differences, and so on (Bozkurt et al., 2020). Women’s responsibility has already been overloaded and with the outburst of COVID-19, it is even multiplied and if we look at it more realistically, we observe the disproportionate division of responsibility on mothers.

As the perfect example of pregnancy mentioned earlier in Dr Cris speech, nothing is natural about the procedure of pregnancy to women. What occurs is the fact that they make it natural. The aforementioned problematic issues appeared while creating the technology is totally undeniable. But what matters is that we need to be cautious not to burden technology users with the peripheral consequences it inevitably triggers.

 

Bozkurt, A., Jung, I., Xiao, J., Vladimirschi, V., Schuwer, R., Egorov, G., ... & Paskevicius, M. (2020). A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis. Asian Journal of Distance Education, 15(1), 1-126.

  • Stephanie Wardrop