Book chapter
The Digital Third World, Digital Democracy, and Cloud Pedagogy: Learning from Multilingual Bloggers
Integration of Cloud Technologies in Digitally Networked Classrooms and Learning Communities, pp.164-176
Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design Book Series, Igi Global
01/01/2017
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1650-7.ch010
Abstract
Cloud computing and Cloud technology has generated teachers' and scholars' attention as a viable alternative to traditional education. However, the discourse and rhetoric around Cloud-computing, education, pedagogy-seems to romanticize the potential of Cloud technology, ignoring, consequently, questions about language, power, and ideology. This chapter reintroduces those issues. Then it discusses blogs by multilingual writers that not only provide teaching materials free of access but also show how language, translation, and transnational exchanges get mediated. I show connection between the digital Third World, issues of equality and access that constitute part of the discussion around Cloud education, and offer a few takeaways from blogs as a democratic exercise. Finally, I discuss what Cloud pedagogy can learn from recent discussion in translingualism.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Digital Third World, Digital Democracy, and Cloud Pedagogy: Learning from Multilingual Bloggers
- Creators
- Dhruba Neupane - University of Waterloo
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Integration of Cloud Technologies in Digitally Networked Classrooms and Learning Communities, pp.164-176
- Publisher
- Igi Global; HERSEY
- Series
- Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design Book Series
- DOI
- 10.4018/978-1-5225-1650-7.ch010
- eISSN
- 2326-8913
- ISSN
- 2326-8905
- Number of pages
- 13
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984397944802771
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