Synthetic Politics: Responding to Algorithms of Education

In this chapter I review technology in education such as the smart classroom. I review the technological innovations in education including gaming and learning management systems, and the like. I also review connectivism in education and the role of algorithms in education that have become prevalent. I end with opening up a long conversation on postphenomenology in education as related to technological usage. There is an extended discussion on the designed interfaces (human to machine) when it comes to technology and education. Included in this chapter is the idea of the lure of technology as part of its animist attraction. What would an adequate pedagogy for twenty-first-century technology be like? What are its design potentials? There is a closing speculation.