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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Matthew H. Rafalow, "Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Description: In this episode, I speak with Matt Rafalow, about his book, Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era (University of Chicago Press, 2020). This book provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology. We discuss the role of play in learning, how disciplinary dispositions are influenced by race and class, and how the prevalence ed tech can reinforce existing social heirarchies.His recommended books included the following:
Teachers and Machines: Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920Â by Larry Cuban (Teachers' College Press, 1986)
Learning to Labor: How Working Class K...