Resisting Automatic Adoption and Uncritical Use of Technology in Student Research
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Other
Location
Room 218
Proposal
See presentation description.
Short Description
This presentation relies on current scholarship and footage from an IRB -approved focus group study to argue that educators have a responsibility to resist enacting a rhetoric of inevitability (Nardi and O’Day 2000) where the use of new electronic technologies are concerned. Teachers must approach the collection, synthesis, and use of information with a skeptical and critical lens if these new electronic tools are to remain options in a researcher’s arsenal. Otherwise, they may result in a future in which critical thinking becomes just another obsolete way of engaging with the world.
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Trim, Michelle, "Resisting Automatic Adoption and Uncritical Use of Technology in Student Research" (2011). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 33.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2011/2011/33
Resisting Automatic Adoption and Uncritical Use of Technology in Student Research
Room 218
See presentation description.
