Weekend Ed. Quote ~ August 4
“While villages are needed for raising children, perhaps we can say they are needed for anyone’s education and development, regardless of age. The innovators highlighted in this series were part of broader networks or villages, which included family, friends, supportive communities, and teachers and mentors. Through the inspiration and support of their villages, these innovators constructed new innovations to empower others. But there is a duality to social constructionism: through their work, these innovators also enacted social change for their villages and those around them–whether this was by using technology to create more enjoyable and relatable learning experiences, to help the unknowingly needy, to empower individuals to become literate in math and then teach it to others, or to connect members of their village to one another. While the work and legacy of these individuals may have been forgotten in the field of educational technology, they live on in the villages that have been touched by them.”
~Shayan Doroudi, 2023, p. 14
References
Doroudi, S. (2023): The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: Stories of education, technology, and civil rights. Learning, Media and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2023.2237892
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