Join the Tech Impact and Policy Center on October 28th from 12PM–1PM Pacific for Phones and Busses and AI, Oh My!: The Threats, Distractions, and Missing Opportunities of Educational Technology in Today’s K-12 Classrooms, a seminar with Antero Garcia.

Stanford affiliates are invited to join us at 11:40 AM for lunch, prior to the seminar.  The Fall Seminar Series continues through December; see our Fall Seminar Series page for speakers and topics. Sign up for our newsletter for announcements. 

About the Seminar:

Building from a decade and a half of school-based ethnographic research, Antero Garcia’s research takes a student-centered approach to understanding the tensions and possibilities of educational technologies. In this presentation, Garcia offers a linked exploration at the enduring policy-based decision making of three different forms of educational technology: school buses, cell phones, and generative AI. By looking at the overlooked, enduring, and emerging questions of ed-tech policy through these examples, Garcia suggests that student expertise and civic interests are often discarded in contemporary ed tech decision policy making. 

About the Speaker:

Antero Garcia is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. His research explores the possibilities of speculative imagination and healing in educational research. Prior to completing his Ph.D., Garcia was an English teacher at a public high school in South Central Los Angeles. He has authored or edited more than two dozen books about the possibilities of literacies, play, and civics in transforming schooling in America. Antero currently co-edits La Cuenta, an online publication centering the voices and perspectives of individuals labeled undocumented in the U.S. Antero received his Ph.D. in the Urban Schooling division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.