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Volume 2, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2634-1123
  • E-ISSN: 2634-1131

Abstract

This article considers the ways in which a far-from-neutral ecology of educational technology serves to further marginalize minoritarian knowledges. A persuasive push towards increased technology use is considered as a result of capitalist EdTech promotion of commodities. This challenges concepts of technology as an emancipating presence that acts neutrally in concerns over social justice. The article includes discussion around the ways in which knowledge itself is framed by the technologies that are used to share it. The culmination of the article is the presenting of alternatives that allow technology to be conceptualized as a means of emancipating knowledges and encouraging diversity of who creates knowledge and how this is shared and developed using technology.

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