TECHNOLOGY VALUE LADEN AND NON NEUTRALITY IN EDUCATION

Abstract

There is growing number of researchers who argues that technology enhances value in learning and in teaching process (Education ) The use of learning and teaching technology like learning management system (LMS ) and e- learning system , has witnessed a tremendous growth in the education sector in recent years . Many scholars have argued that technology advances has been a value laden to the education sector while some views it as affecting (Non neutrality ) the education sector This explores the non neutrality and the value laden of technology on the education

Introduction p

The recent advancements in technology have changed the cultural economic , political , and social fabric life since the time that cold war came to an end (Taylor 2001 ) Information and communication has been the most vocal point in transforming the society - all the way from the early industrial society of the twentieth century to the current network society of the modern age , where intercontinental are just but a button push away

The education sector has not gone untouched predictions are ripe that in just a few decades to come , the changing times pressure will have reduced the education sector into relics . According to Ducker (1997 learning institutions won 't survive , in the context of education there is a shift from knowledge pursuit to a more pragmatic paradigm that is economically oriented . Information accessibility and the ability of using the information are the two key features of knowledge . The production of knowledge , dissemination , research and the teaching are not self contained...