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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2016
- “Teachers, if actually unified and empowered, can change the direction of history,” says Ruha Benjamin in this powerful keynote address at the ISTE 2016 Conference & Expo.
Benjamin, a Princeton professor in the department of African American studies, specializes in the interdisciplinary studies of science, medicine, race, ethnicity gender, biotechnology, health and biopolitics. She envisions an education system that acts as an incubator for social change, and poses the question, “How do we make our schools laboratories of democratic participation, rather than sites where inequality is reproduced, where not only is the potential of each individual child realized, but where we're experimenting with technologies of love, of reciprocity and of justice.” She makes important points about adopting technology in the classroom. We must wrestle, she insists, with the parallel realities that today’s children face if technology is to become a tool to close the gap in educational opportunity and life outcomes. The goal is not to simply empower our student to succeed in the world of today, says Professor Benjamin, but to give them the tools and opportunities that will allow them to imagine and create alternatives to the current system and culture.
Ruha Benjamin is an engaging and animated speaker who eloquently and successfully brings in examples as far reaching as Star Trek, nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, code switching, Google searches, zero tolerance policies, and much more in order to build a momentum that will galvanize viewers. Watch the full keynote now and get inspired to transform society through the transformation of education.
Amazing! So many great points! thanks ISTE for getting Ruha as a speaker!
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I wish more teachers designed for students to do now instead of preparing them so they can do once they are in "the real world" and know enough. They are in the real-world now so let them learn and do now.
woah. this resonates!!!
This is great!
I agree we are in a moment of intense conflicts socially yet understanding PhD marimba ani's thought of everything an oppressive social reality does is to empower itself and contrasting that with a metaphysical truth of a civilization reaping what it sows , it seems to me the things in the past which once empowered the civilization its ability to make tools has combined with its inability to keep up with the tools ability to change the things in every field of human endeavor and as a result the Artificially Intelligent realities exponential growth and humanities inability to properly deal with the changes socially has created the conflicts in my and we MUST figure out who has been empowered in truth the most in order to begin not only the conversation but also the healing of Our Collective Heart and New Artificially Enhanced Mind in my humble opinion.
Humbly in order for teacher to change the direction of history utilizing the minds of the students we must first be able to overstand the unethical uses of technology by a militarized system of legal constitutionally defined slavery and its subversive tendencies to try and stop a Black Messianic figure as they said in the Cointellprogram under Hoover.
Or professors for truth.