The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions: On Technology, Games-Based Learning, and Erasure

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Jackson, J. 2020. The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions: On Technology, Games-Based Learning, and Erasure. Hybrid Pedagogy.
AuthorsJackson, J.
Abstract

Education scholars who have turned to videogames to attempt to solve all the problems of modern education predicate their work on an assumed heterosexual, white, male, able-bodied, middle-to-upper-middle-class student who is actively engaged in their own learning and has the support infrastructure in place to eliminate precarity and uncertainty from developmental learning.

KeywordsCritical pedagogy; Science and Technology Studie; Technologization; Precarity; Education
Year2020
JournalHybrid Pedagogy
PublisherHybrid Pedagogy Inc.
ISSN 2332-2098
Web address (URL)https://hybridpedagogy.org/games-based-learning/?fbclid=IwAR3KhZ-a4II3iLVuDE36bFBo9wWN-PWM4rhNnKF93d5yI-vCtg20ZN97_ws
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