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CEP953 Teachers and Technology. Raven Wallace ravenmw@msu.edu 513G Erickson Hall 353-9272 http://www.msu.edu/course/cep/953/ http://blackboard.msu.edu/. Why “Teachers and Technology”?. Why not TEACH ING and technology? Why technology at all?. Why “Teachers and Technology”?.
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Raven Wallace ravenmw@msu.edu 513G Erickson Hall 353-9272 http://www.msu.edu/course/cep/953/ http://blackboard.msu.edu/
Why “Teachers and Technology”? • Why not TEACHING and technology? • Why technology at all?
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 “Teachers and Technology”? • Why not TEACHING and technology? • Why technology at all?
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