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Dialogue topic for discussion Reflecting on the participants’ academic experiences, discern a comparative analysis into the extent to which the rapid growth of smart cities and digital LMSs in general, have either exacerbated or addressed concerns of digital oppression looking at inclusivity, equality, and accessibility. The COVID-19 pandemic, as redundant as it may seem in the year 2024, brought forth and increased the pace at which the world had to adapt to technological evolution from the world of work to education. Looking closely at the world of teaching and learning, this need to adapt created immense anxieties with issues of accessibility and equality being very prominent. The accelerated use of digital learning management systems (LMS) was argued to have been entrenched in a dehumanized educational experience that increases corporate profitability over the needs of students (Farag et al.; 2022). An often-debatable question is “whether the rapid adaptation of digital LMS is inclusive enough to not exacerbate anxieties in the teaching and learning domain looking at both access and inclusivity”. According to Farag et al., digital learning undoubtedly increases global access to a universe of education but can also intensify some of the worst problems described in Freire’s “banking model” (Farag et al.; 2022). Freire’s pedagogy of the digitally oppressed in summary, suggests the banking model of teaching and learning as the world-wide view that the teacher is the possessor of knowledge and students’ receptors to deposits of this knowledge – essentially qualifying this as oppressive and inhumane (Farag et al.; 2022). Round Table Debate topic
Looking at both the inputs of the panel members and prior research, argue for or against the effectiveness of currently implemented digital LMSs in improving or impairing the experience of teaching and learning in both South Africa and Sweden, canvased as 1st and 3rd world countries. Pay attention to the accessibility, equality, and inclusivity in both geographic contexts, referring to the degree at which these technologies accommodate the marginalised in society at the expense of their profit gains or vice versa. This discussion will be a collective discussion post dialogue.
