This year again I was in Harali, working with Anandshala facilitators, when the editorial work for the Technology in Education issue of the IAFOR Journal of Education was at its peak. This year, similar to last year we had a lot of papers on AI. Some of them got through the peer review process and are published in the latest issue.
As we review various papers on AI, the discourse focuses on subjects such as evaluation challenges as AI becomes ubiquitous etc. as well as unexpected topics such as AI assisted plush toys/robots for children with autism. Here at Harali, I see student circumstances many generations behind this fast moving world. The cognitive dissonance is jarring.
Juggling the two drastically different contexts I inhabit, one with cutting edge technology and other with nomadic community in a disadvantaged district made me think of the socio-political context of educational technology. The editorial introduction this year focused on the ‘critical turn’ in educational technology is inspired by this experience.
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