MTLC Research Working Group

Location

Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, 259

Free

The Mobile Technology Learning Center

Please join us for the next:

MTLC Research Working Group
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014
12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall
Room 259 (Mobile Technology Learning Center)
Lunch will be served

The MTLC Research Working Group is an event sponsored by the Mobile Technology Learning Center where members of the academic community come together to share, discuss and learn about new research and explorations in the field of technology and education. If you are a faculty member and are interested in sharing your completed research, working paper and/or evolving theories at the next Research Working Group please email us at MTLC@sandiego.edu.

If you would like to RSVP to this event, please email: MTLC@sandiego.edu by Monday, Oct. 27, 2014.

In this session:

• Veronica Garcia, Ph.D. will be presenting year 1 findings from a 3 year evaluation and research project examining the Houston Independent School District’s One-to-One PowerUp Initiative. Findings were generated from focus groups and interviews with 142 students, teachers and administrators and address the outcomes of the initiative's first year of implementation.
And
• Zachary Gabriel Green, Ph.D. will be presenting on a working paper titled Passivism: The Promise and Peril of One-Click Activism. Paper explores the ease of access to ways that people can now engage public advocacy through websites, emails, and social networking. The convenience of adding one’s voice to a cause with “one click” allows for mobilization on issues of concern nearly instantaneously and internationally. The promise of this trend is the prospect of millions gaining education and lending support to issues as they arise locally and globally. The worldwide response following the Haiti Earthquake of 2010 is an examples of how our global interconnectedness brought aid and assistance at unprecedented levels. Yet, there is a way that organizations, corporations, and political interests groups may be using the potential of push button activism in ways that social networking memes rather than intrinsic needs may be driving some actions. The success and controversy surrounding the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is offered as but one example of this trend, which some have begun to dub “slacktivism.” This paper begins a discourse on the implications of this technologically driven trend and our collective responsibility in being complicit in its perpetuation.