Technology

       The Ancient of Days
           (William Blake)

This section presents materials related to electronic technology and its impact
on education. Some of the basic questions addressed are the following:
  • What is information technology?
  • How does information technology differ from previous forms of
    technology?
  • What transformarions will information technology bring to the learning community as a whole?
  • How will teaching and learning change in a technological context?
  • Is information technology compatible with the liberal arts?
  • On what basis are decisions made in collaborative course
    constructions?

Quick links: instructional technology connections

Four Models of Redemptive Education and Technology by Ignazio L. Goetz

Spirituality, Redemption and Education in the Wasteland of Technopoly by Alven M. Neiman (response)

An International Overview of Curricular Approaches and Models in Technology Education by Paul Black

Exploring the Intellectual Foundation of Technology Education: From Condorcet to Dewey by Randy Chafy

Addressing Women's Ways of Knowing to Improve the Technology Education Environment for all Students by Karen F. Zuga

Curriculum Focus for Technology Education by Robert C. Wicklein

EDUCAUSE website

Total Quality Management as a Tool to Enhance the Quality of Higher Education Management in the 21 Century by Bryan R. Cole (See also the definition and chart system that accompanies this presentation. Cole is at Texas A&M.)

The Internet and Education: A Close Fit by Neil L. Rudenstine

Identification of Quality Characteristics for Technology Education Programs: A North Carolina Case Study
by Aaron C. Clark and Robert E. Wenig

Problem Solving in Technology Education: A Taoist Perspective by Jim Flowers

Theories of Learning Applied to Technological Instruction  by George E. Marsh II (graduate course at the Univ. of Alabama)
(See also Marsh's
Systems Theory page)

The Future of the Community College: A Faculty Perspective (The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges)
(This is a strong position paper against the extreme technologizing of education.)

Education in the Mode of Information: Some Philosophical Considerations by James D. Marshall

Pixels, Decenteredness, Marketization, Totalism and Ingmar Bergman's Cry for Help by Richard Brosio (response)

Hypertext and Education: (Post?)structural Transformations by Barbara J. Duncan

Banality and Optimism: Webbed Education by Anthony G. Rud, Jr. (response)

Philosophy of Technology and Education: An Invitation to Inquiry by David Blacker

Exploring the Middle Ground: A Reply to Blacker by Mark Selman (response)

The Dichotomy of Liberal Versus Vocational Education: Some Basic Conceptual Geography by David Carr

Distinctions, Dualisms, and Deweyan Pragmatism: A Response to David Carr by James Garrison (response)

Aporia: Webs, Passages, Getting Lost and Learning to Go On by Nicholas C. Burbules

Aporia and Imagination by Fazal Rizvi (response)

Dewey and the New "Vocationalism" by James D. Marshall

Engaging Dewey's Vocationalism by Susan Douglas Franzosa (response)

 

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For further information, contact Frank Edler fedler@mccneb.edu or John McGaha jmcgaha@mccneb.edu