CEP953 Teachers and Technology
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CEP953Teachers and Technology
Raven [email protected] Erickson Hall
353-9272http://www.msu.edu/course/cep/953/
http://blackboard.msu.edu/
• Why not TEACHING and technology?• Why technology at all?
Why “Teachers and Technology”?
Why “Teachers and Technology”?
• The Invisibility of the Teacher
• The Inevitability of Technology
The Invisibility of the Teacher
• For understandable (historical) reasons:– Software development (focus on
student learning)– Software deployment (focus on
creating a successful environment)
The Invisibility of the Teacher
• As a result of hidden assumptions– That technology “teaches”– That technology can be “teacher-
proof”– That technology is “only a tool”– That uses of technology (and other
tools) are self-evident and self-fulfilling
Teaching v. Teacher
• Teaching is used to describe interactions in which students learn -- human or not.
• Teacher puts the focus on the person
• Why not TEACHING and technology?• Why technology at all?
Why “Teachers and Technology”?
The Inevitability of Technology
• Technology has penetrated American classrooms
• Teachers are expected to teach with “technology”
• It matters what they do, how they do it • Research can contribute
THE OUTCOMES ARE NOT INEVITABLE
Plan for the course
• Today: Assumptions about technology, views of technology (Lang movie: Bennett & Gelernter; Nardi)
• Next week: history of teachers and technology (Cuban book)
• Complete schedule and syllabus by the next class