My first semester in the PhD program is frantically winding down. One of my classes this semester addressed the effects of globalization on education. Up to this point I’ve experienced dialogue concerning globalization in a periphery manner - news snippets here, comments there - and didn’t really understand what globalization was.
People who write about globalization speak a lot about the impact of information technology in facilitating global influence on countries, and consequently education writers took that claim and trumpeted the importance of teaching our kids “technology skills” so they could be a part of the 21st century. What does this mean? I’m not entirely sure, but I’ll attempt to summarize what I’ve learned this semester, and hopefully frame the role of technology in education using a globalization perspective:
