Cyborg Teaching Gill Kirkup Institute of Educational Technology Open University Milton Keynes UK email: g.e.kirkup@open.ac.uk Like many who teach, at the beginning of the 21" century, especially in post-school education, I am having not only to get myself new skills to work with electronic teaching/learning environments and tools, but I am also being compelled to reflect on my role and identity as a teacher. Sandra Acker asks in the introduction to Sally H ~cok: Pleasure, Powerand ~chnology, 'How are thepleasures of making things work (technology) turned into the processes of domination?' (Hacker 1989, p vii). I have found myself asking the same question about my experiences of online teaching; why did I feel disempowered and dominated by the technology, instead of empowered by these new tools? This has led me to speculate about what kinds of tools/technology I would need if they were designed to empower me - the teacher (rather than manage or replace me): while at the same time empowering the learners? In the spirit of actor network theory (Latour, 1992) I recognise that information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education are not simply tools but active agents. And to press this aspect of 'agency' even
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Cyborg teaching
Kirkup, Gill
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