CEP953 Teachers and Technology

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CEP953 Teachers and Technology
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• Raven Wallace
• ravenmw_at_msu.edu
• 513G Erickson Hall
• 353-9272
• http//www.msu.edu/course/cep/953/
• http//blackboard.msu.edu/

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Why Teachers and Technology?

• Why not TEACHING and technology?
• Why technology at all?

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Why Teachers and Technology?

• The Invisibility of the Teacher
• The Inevitability of Technology

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The Invisibility of the Teacher

• For understandable (historical) reasons
• Software development (focus on student learning)
• Software deployment (focus on creating a
  successful environment)

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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

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Teaching v. Teacher

• Teaching is used to describe interactions in
  which students learn -- human or not.
• Teacher puts the focus on the person

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Why Teachers and Technology?

• Why not TEACHING and technology?
• Why technology at all?

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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

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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