Jacob Pleasants
Biographic Data
| ID | 5451937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Pleasants |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Pleasants |
| SIGNATURE | PLEASANTS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1886-6270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Saving Teacher Labor? Questioning the Magic of AI with Pre-Service Teachers
Promoting a technoskeptical position towards generative AI in teacher education
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being increasingly adopted by pre-college teachers to plan lessons, generate assessments, and complete other instructional tasks. Teacher educators have thus been called upon to enhance teachers’ ‘AI Literacy,’ typically defined as a set of competencies related to AI technologies and their use in education. While such competencies are important, we argue that teacher educators need to also …
Why not become a teacher? Undergraduate students’ perceptions and implications for recruitment
Teacher recruitment is a widespread and persistent challenge, yet little research has examined the motivations and perceptions of those who have some interest in teaching, but ultimately choose not to pursue it. This study used an online survey to examine the views of the teaching profession held by a general population of undergraduate students at a large university in the United States. This study examines what students reported to be the main …
The Development of Student Autonomy in the Undergraduate Research Lab
The Humans and Algorithms of Music Recommendation
In Computing Taste, Nick Seaver conducts an anthropological study of the technologists who design algorithmic music recommendation systems. He explores their ways of thinking and talking about music, taste, and computation to better understand their technological design approaches. By highlighting the humans behind the machines, Computing Taste shows how to think about computer algorithms as sociotechnical systems
Coming to critical technology consciousness
Educators need critical perspectives toward technology to navigate the rapid pace of technological change in schools, but little is known about how educators develop critical perspectives. In this phenomenological study, we explore the experiences of 30 educators (across a range of educational settings) who self-identified as holding critical perspectives about technology. They described their critical perspectives through four overlapping orient…
Rethinking the Nature of Engineering
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering
Engineering for Whom? Investigating How Engineering Students Develop and Apply Technoskeptical Thinking
College engineering education prioritizes technical knowledge and skills, but there is growing recognition that it must also address the social and societal implications of engineering work. Beyond professional ethics, engineers need to develop broader understandings of how engineering and technology interact with and impact individuals and communities. This study focuses on the development of engineering students' 'technoskeptical' ways of think…
Talking the technology talk
The school lives of students and educators have long been affected by technological changes, but the advent of digital technologies, from smartphones to social media, have amplified the effects on their daily lives. Unfortunately, school curricula rarely focus on critically examining our relationships with technologies. Daniel G. Krutka, Jacob Pleasants, and T. Philip Nichols offer a framework called the technology education iceberg to help educa…
What Relationships Do We Want with Technology? Toward Technoskepticism in Schools
In this essay, Jacob Pleasants, Dani el G. Krutka, and T. Philip Nichols outline a vision for how technology education can and ought to occur through the core subject areas of science, social studies, and English language arts. In their argument for the development of a technoskeptical stance for thinking critically and making informed decisions about technology, they discuss past and current efforts to address both the teaching and use of techno…
Inquiring into the Nature of STEM Problems
Engineering for Whom? Investigating How Engineering Students Develop and Apply Technoskeptical Thinking
College engineering education prioritizes technical knowledge and skills, but there is growing recognition that it must also address the social and societal implications of engineering work. Beyond professional ethics, engineers need to develop broader understandings of how engineering and technology interact with and impact individuals and communities. This study focuses on the development of engineering students' 'technoskeptical' ways of think…
Inquiring into the Nature of STEM Problems
Talking the technology talk
The school lives of students and educators have long been affected by technological changes, but the advent of digital technologies, from smartphones to social media, have amplified the effects on their daily lives. Unfortunately, school curricula rarely focus on critically examining our relationships with technologies. Daniel G. Krutka, Jacob Pleasants, and T. Philip Nichols offer a framework called the technology education iceberg to help educa…
What Relationships Do We Want with Technology? Toward Technoskepticism in Schools
In this essay, Jacob Pleasants, Dani el G. Krutka, and T. Philip Nichols outline a vision for how technology education can and ought to occur through the core subject areas of science, social studies, and English language arts. In their argument for the development of a technoskeptical stance for thinking critically and making informed decisions about technology, they discuss past and current efforts to address both the teaching and use of techno…
The Humans and Algorithms of Music Recommendation
In Computing Taste, Nick Seaver conducts an anthropological study of the technologists who design algorithmic music recommendation systems. He explores their ways of thinking and talking about music, taste, and computation to better understand their technological design approaches. By highlighting the humans behind the machines, Computing Taste shows how to think about computer algorithms as sociotechnical systems
Coming to critical technology consciousness
Educators need critical perspectives toward technology to navigate the rapid pace of technological change in schools, but little is known about how educators develop critical perspectives. In this phenomenological study, we explore the experiences of 30 educators (across a range of educational settings) who self-identified as holding critical perspectives about technology. They described their critical perspectives through four overlapping orient…
Rethinking the Nature of Engineering
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering
Engineering for Whom? Investigating How Engineering Students Develop and Apply Technoskeptical Thinking
College engineering education prioritizes technical knowledge and skills, but there is growing recognition that it must also address the social and societal implications of engineering work. Beyond professional ethics, engineers need to develop broader understandings of how engineering and technology interact with and impact individuals and communities. This study focuses on the development of engineering students' 'technoskeptical' ways of think…
The Development of Student Autonomy in the Undergraduate Research Lab
Saving Teacher Labor? Questioning the Magic of AI with Pre-Service Teachers
Promoting a technoskeptical position towards generative AI in teacher education
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being increasingly adopted by pre-college teachers to plan lessons, generate assessments, and complete other instructional tasks. Teacher educators have thus been called upon to enhance teachers’ ‘AI Literacy,’ typically defined as a set of competencies related to AI technologies and their use in education. While such competencies are important, we argue that teacher educators need to also …
Why not become a teacher? Undergraduate students’ perceptions and implications for recruitment
Teacher recruitment is a widespread and persistent challenge, yet little research has examined the motivations and perceptions of those who have some interest in teaching, but ultimately choose not to pursue it. This study used an online survey to examine the views of the teaching profession held by a general population of undergraduate students at a large university in the United States. This study examines what students reported to be the main …
Engineering (6 works) · Engineering ethics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Science Education and Pedagogy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Political science (3 works)