The Analog Divide: Technology Practices in Public Education Torin Monahan Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of Science & Technology Studies monaht@rpi.edu ]www.rpi.edu/-monaht "a system is nothing more than the subordination of all the aspects of the universe to some one of them." Jorge Luis Borges - I n t r o d u c t i o n (Reconnaissance) Countless parachutes speckle the smoggy skies over Los Angeles as thousands of computers are air-dropped into public schools. The educational war-zone of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) desperately needs these technological resourcesas ammunition in the war on poor academic achievement. When the computers hit the ground at local school sites, understaffed technology coordinators scramble to deploy the equipment within classroom outposts connected to trenches of copper and fiber cable that crisscross each school site. More often than not, lines of communication between local officers and district generals are scrambled or cut. What is the plan once the computers are deployed? There is discord in the ranks, and some question the existence of any overarching strategy or purpose. This military metaphor is used by school technology coordinators to describe the elaborate maneuvers oftectmologyimplementation in LAUSD. The district consists of 791
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The analog divide: technology practices in public education
Monahan, Torin
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 2001
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