Accountable technology appropriation and use

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Randell
Keyword(s):  
Technology Appropriation

An Analysis of Teachers' Processes of Technology Appropriation in Classroom

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Boéchat-Heer ◽  
Maria Antonietta Impedovo ◽  
Francesco Arcidiacono
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Technology Appropriation ◽  
School Year ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Teaching Learning

This paper aims to investigate the “sense” of appropriation of the iPad use by teachers in a professional secondary school. As iPads are increasingly employed in the teaching process in classroom the authors intend to understand how the process of teachers' appropriation of iPad use is perceived as a learning tool. Through the analysis of focus groups with teachers, they intend to detect changes in the sense of appropriation of the iPad in classroom during a school year. The findings of their study allow to identify facilitating and hindering elements that support the process of teachers' appropriation of iPads and open further spaces to investigate the role of new technologies in teaching/learning contexts.

Everyday urbanisms and the importance of place: Exploring the elements of the emancipatory smart city

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802097097
Author(s):  
Nancy Odendaal
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Technology Appropriation ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Smart Urbanism

Two of the most striking features of smart city discourses are the centrality of technology as a driver of transformational change and the strange ‘placelessness’ of its visual narrative. Whether envisaged in Kenya or Singapore, the commercial smart city is represented as a ‘city in a box’, seemingly capable of solving complex social issues through algorithms and technical innovation. Recently a robust literature has emerged that is critical of the techno-determinism inherent in smart city discussions. This paper expands on this critique by arguing that by solely focusing on the material dimensions of technologically informed urban change, devoid of context, we miss an opportunity to uncover an important moment in contemporary urbanity. By foregrounding the human dimensions of technology appropriation and the interface with livelihoods in their particular spatial contexts, this paper consciously decentres the dominant smart city discourse by arguing for the foregrounding of local dynamics. This paper rejects the universalisms embedded in smart city promises and argues that by provincialising the idea of smart urbanism, opportunities are presented for understanding the true markers of contemporary urbanism. Critical debates on the smart city, and by extension the need to consider smart urbanism contextually and as an infrastructure, relationally, together with the conceptual insights provided by postcolonial science and technology studies, contribute to a proposed frame for researching the ongoing dynamic between contemporary urban life and technological innovation. Empirical vignettes from urban Africa are used to illustrate the multiple dimensions of the interface between livelihoods and technology appropriation.

Technology appropriation in a de-growing economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 1666-1675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukáš Likavčan ◽  
Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle
Keyword(s):  
Technology Appropriation ◽  
Growing Economy
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