Change
The discussion and theme of CHANGE permeates many of the speakers main points in their respective presentations. From an historical and theoretical perspective, it can be said that the modes of educational delivery and attitudes has been (very) slow to change, especially when viewed alongside how much change and innovation has taken place in the areas of business, hospitals, prisons and the like. The modern day classroom is virtually unchanged, almost identical to the classrooms one-hundred years ago in its physical structure and mode of operation.
Brenda Laurel suggests that the classroom be turned “upside down” and radically reconstructed to keep up with the rapidly changing world, using web-based educational technology as a catalyst for change. Chip Bruce suggests a renewed Dewey-ian approach to education by drawing direct relationships between life and school, school and society by using and viewing technology as a problem solving tool, where we all actively participate in creating new technologies, new problems, and new solutions. Nicholas Burbules challenges the “one standard, one way” approach to education.
I. Brenda Laurel
1. MONDO 2000 Interview with Brenda Laurel
2. Educom Review Interview with Brenda Laurel - 1995
3. Tools for Knowing, Judging, and Taking Action in the 21st Century
4. Utopian Entrepeneur Book Review by Rita Lauria
II. Bertram “Chip” Bruce
1. Technology in Social Practice: Returning to Dewey's Conception of Learning
2. A Friendly, Welcoming Attitude Toward Change
3. Extending Literacy Through Participation in New Technologies
4. Educational Reform: How Does Technology Affect Educational Change?
5. Emerging Communities of Practice: Collaboration and Communication in Action Research
III. Nicholas Burbules
1. Watch IT! Reviewed by Lynda Tisa and Eugene Matusov
2. Paying the Piper: The Educational Cost of the Commercialization of the Internet
