David Diener Explains How Technology Affects the Classroom

The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Hillsdale College

Education

4.8 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Guests: David Diener & Jeffrey E. Paul

Host Scot Bertram talks with David Diener assistant professor of education at Hillsdale College, about the proper role of technology inside the classroom and what benefits might be achieved with a low-tech approach. And Jeffrey E. Paul, research professor in the Social Philosophy Center of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University, dives into the history and origins of the American Progressive movement and discusses his new book, Winning America’s Second Civil War.

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0:00.0	From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.
0:25.5	Regardless of the technologies with which we engage, we engage with them as human beings.
0:30.5	And we will continue to need students, people in our society, who are deeply human and who know how to think well, reason
0:40.3	well, live well, who are wise and virtuous. This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the
0:47.0	Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College podcast network. That was Dr. David Deiner,
0:54.1	assistant professor of education here at Hillsdale College. We. That was Dr. David Deiner, assistant professor of education here at Hillsdale College.
0:57.3	We talk in depth today about the topic of education and technology.
1:02.2	Dr. Deiner, thanks so much for joining us.
1:04.4	Absolutely. Thank you for having me.
1:06.1	Speaking today on the topic of education and technology,
1:10.4	let's define a little bit of what we'll be talking about.
1:13.2	When we say educational technologies, what do we mean by that phrase? Well, on the one hand,
1:19.1	we mean technologies that are used within the context of education. So things like computers,
1:26.6	pencils, et cetera, right?
1:28.8	Anything that's used within the classroom or within the school or in educational context.
1:33.2	And then I think there's also a question having to do with purpose that has to do with what are ways in which education prepares students for life in a technological world that are important to ask as well.
1:45.7	Why is there such a push today for educational technologies to be used in schools and used in
1:52.2	classrooms? Sometimes you even hear schools bragging about this classroom has smart boards
1:57.2	and we're completely linked up to the internet and can do all these things. Why is there
2:01.9	a push for those educational technologies in some quarters? Sure. Interestingly, when we're talking
2:08.1	about educational technology in that context, we're usually talking about digital technology.
2:13.3	I mean, I jokingly say, you know, pencils are technology. Flushed toilets are technology.
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