Jeffrey Radloff, associate professor, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department
Elementary teachers should be equipped to make informed choices about which educational technologies (edtech) to adopt and how to implement them purposefully. To support those choices, teachers need a critical “technoskeptical” perspective that considers both the benefits and unintended impacts of edtech. This sandwich seminar describes efforts being made to raise teacher candidates’ technoskepticism in a core critical media literacy course within the elementary teacher education program at SUNY Cortland. Findings are nuanced and imply a reevaluation of conventional perspectives to reinforce more critical viewpoints on edtech.