Erik Bonadonna

I am a technology and engineering teacher currently working in a K-5 setting. I work to create a critical consciousness around technology, encouraging students to think about the many histories and possible futures of technology, the many hands required to bring technology into being, and the physical infrastructures that are often ignored in using digital technologies. In my K-5 classes, I look at how to develop media and AI literacy, 2D and 3D design skills, and computational thinking, particularly for neurodiverse learners.

Research Interests

• How technologies in schools change the labor of teaching and the experience of learning, including how they intersect with race, class and gender
• Taking a social and historical lens to educational technology
• How the theories around educational technology were developed and legitimized
• The social construction of the learning management system
• Designing K-12 instructional materials exploring the non-linear, non-deterministic, and political nature of technology

Other Interests

• Public transit
• Cycling
• Architecture
• Film
• Infrastructure and ports

Now Reading

• The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 by David Edgerton (2006)
• Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 by Karl Marx, trans. Paul Reitter (2024) - with a reading group