The Evolution Of American Educational Technology

Author : Paul Saettler
Publisher : IAP
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607529781

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The Evolution of American Educational Technology by Paul Saettler Pdf

The primary purpose of this book is to trace the theoretical methodological foundations of American educational technology. It must be emphasized that this work is essentially as history of the process of educational technology rather than of products in the form of devices or media. Although media have played an important rode in educational technology, the reader should not lose sight of the central process which characterizes and underlies the true historical meaning and function of educational technology. Moreover, the assumption is made that all current theory, methodology, and practice rests upon the heritage of the past. Indeed, a common problem in the field has been the failure, in many instances, to take adequate account of past history in planning for the present or the future. A related purpose of this book is to provide a selective survey of research in educational technology as it relates to the American public schools. Such research reviews are not intended to be comprehensive, but were included because of their historical importance and their relevance in understanding the process of educational technology.

Author : L. Paul Saettler
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041884664

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A History of Instructional Technology by L. Paul Saettler Pdf

Author : Claudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674037731

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The Race between Education and Technology by Claudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz Pdf

This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European nations. By 1900 the U.S. had begun to educate its masses at the secondary level, not just in the primary schools that had remarkable success in the nineteenth century. The book argues that technological change, education, and inequality have been involved in a kind of race. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was higher than the demand for them. This had the effect of boosting income for most people and lowering inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. This educational slowdown was accompanied by rising inequality. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this, and what might be done to ameliorate it.

Author : Paul G. Harwood,Victor Asal
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781461648734

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Educating the First Digital Generation by Paul G. Harwood,Victor Asal Pdf

Asal and Harwood explore how today's information technology is changing how we educate and are educated. Focusing on the United States, with useful insights from the classroom digital revolution in a few other key places (the United Kingdom, Australia, and India), the authors investigate the impact of today's technologies on education — how they impact teachers and teaching, children and learning, and the intersection of teaching and learning. For example, they tell us what the educational impact of having over 60% of America online is. The authors explain exactly how new technologies are changing the learning environment in and out of the classroom with a focus on the effects on K-12 education. Chapters include vignettes about children who are integrating information technologies into their lives at school and at home and those children who for a variety of reasons, most notably, socio-economic, have found themselves excluded as full members of the first digital generation. There are also accounts from K-12 teachers who are incorporating technology into their classroom environments. Using closed-circuit cameras, electronic cheating, and distance learning are all also discussed at length.

Author : Bill Ferster
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421415406

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Teaching Machines by Bill Ferster Pdf

Technology promises to make learning better, cheaper, faster—but rarely has it kept that promise. The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Classroom instruction is an expensive and time-consuming process fraught with contradictory theories and frustratingly uneven results. Educators, inspired by machines’ contributions to modern life, have been using technology to facilitate teaching for centuries. In Teaching Machines, Bill Ferster examines past attempts to automate instruction from the earliest use of the postal service for distance education to the current maelstrom surrounding Massive Open Online Courses. He tells the stories of the entrepreneurs and visionaries who, beginning in the colonial era, developed and promoted various instructional technologies. Ferster touches on a wide range of attempts to enhance the classroom experience with machines, from hornbooks, the Chautauqua movement, and correspondence courses to B. F. Skinner’s teaching machine, intelligent tutoring systems, and eLearning. The famed progressive teachers, researchers, and administrators that the book highlights often overcame substantial hurdles to implement their ideas, but not all of them succeeded in improving the quality of education. Teaching Machines provides invaluable new insight into our current debate over the efficacy of educational technology.

Author : Margaret Cassidy
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015061146026

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Bookends by Margaret Cassidy Pdf

This book examines the history of electronic media in education, from film through radio, television, and automated instruction, ending with a look at contemporary educational technology. It shows how every new educational medium is argued to be compatible with the popular theories of learning, pedagogy, and curriculum of its time, and is embraced by school reformers as a means toward achieving the changes they desire. In particular, the book highlights the common themes that run through these stories, and that characterize today's discussions of educational technology. There is much to be learned from this history that is currently being ignored or discounted. The book is unique in that it makes a concerted effort to place this history of educational technology in context. It relates that history to ideas about what schools are for, how teachers should teach, how students learn, who has the right to control what goes on in public schools, what the curriculum should consist of, and what the agenda for school reform should be. It places contemporary ideas about educational technology in the context of Americans' longstanding love affair with technology, their belief in progress, and

Author : A. W Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995269238

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Teaching in a Digital Age by A. W Bates Pdf

Author : John L. Rury,Eileen H. Tamura
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199340040

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education by John L. Rury,Eileen H. Tamura Pdf

This handbook offers a global view of the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, ideas about education, and educational experiences. Its 36 chapters consider changing scholarship in the field, examine nationally-oriented works by comparing themes and approaches, lend international perspective on a range of issues in education, and provide suggestions for further research and analysis. Like many other subfields of historical analysis, the history of education has been deeply affected by global processes of social and political change, especially since the 1960s. The handbook weighs the influence of various interpretive perspectives, including revisionist viewpoints, taking particular note of changes in the past half century. Contributors consider how schooling and other educational experiences have been shaped by the larger social and political context, and how these influences have affected the experiences of students, their families and the educators who have worked with them. The Handbook provides insight and perspective on a wide range of topics, including pre-modern education, colonialism and anti-colonial struggles, indigenous education, minority issues in education, comparative, international, and transnational education, childhood education, non-formal and informal education, and a range of other issues. Each contribution includes endnotes and a bibliography for readers interested in further study.

Author : Luppicini, Rocci,Adell, Rebecca
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605660233

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Handbook of Research on Technoethics by Luppicini, Rocci,Adell, Rebecca Pdf

"This book traces the emergence of the new interdisciplinary field of technoethics by exploring its conceptual development, important issues, and key areas of current research. Compiling 50 authoritative articles from leading researchers on the ethical dimensions of new technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Arthur P. Hershaft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN : 1613246366

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National Education Technology Plan by Arthur P. Hershaft Pdf

Education is the key to America's economic growth and prosperity and to our ability to compete in the global economy. It is the path to higher earning power for Americans and is necessary for our democracy to work. It fosters the cross-border, cross-cultural collaboration required to solve the most challenging problems of our time. The National Education Technology Plan 2010 calls for revolutionary transformation. Specifically, we must embrace innovation and technology which is at the core of virtually every aspect of our daily lives and work. This book explores the National Education Technology Plan which presents a model of learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure and productivity.

Author : Peggy Aldrich Kidwell,Amy Ackerberg-Hastings,David Lindsay Roberts
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780801888144

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Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000 by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell,Amy Ackerberg-Hastings,David Lindsay Roberts Pdf

From the blackboard to the graphing calculator, the tools developed to teach mathematics in America have a rich history shaped by educational reform, technological innovation, and spirited entrepreneurship. In Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, and David Lindsay Roberts present the first systematic historical study of the objects used in the American mathematics classroom. They discuss broad tools of presentation and pedagogy (not only blackboards and textbooks, but early twentieth-century standardized tests, teaching machines, and the overhead projector), tools for calculation, and tools for representation and measurement. Engaging and accessible, this volume tells the stories of how specific objects such as protractors, geometric models, slide rules, electronic calculators, and computers came to be used in classrooms, and how some disappeared.

Author : J. Ana Donaldson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319334523

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Women's Voices in the Field of Educational Technology by J. Ana Donaldson Pdf

In a professional world that has a tradition of the “good old boy” network, women long have fought for recognition in the educational technology field. In this book authors discuss the women in their own lives who have made the difference for them in their professional development. A group of 31 individuals from the USA, Canada, Northern Cyprus, the UK, and South Korea were asked to be part of this endeavor. The breadth of the list was intended to bring together as many perspectives as possible. Some stories included in this book are deeply private, others offer historical perspectives of women's roles in educational technology, while others focus on mentoring. This book is intended as a resource for all individuals in the field of educational technology, instructional design, and learning design at a national and international level.

Author : J. Fred Olive
Publisher : Educational Technology
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 0877782776

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The Educational Technology Profession by J. Fred Olive Pdf

Author : Katie Day Good
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262538022

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Bring the World to the Child by Katie Day Good Pdf

How, long before the advent of computers and the internet, educators used technology to help students become media-literate, future-ready, and world-minded citizens. Today, educators, technology leaders, and policy makers promote the importance of “global,” “wired,” and “multimodal” learning; efforts to teach young people to become engaged global citizens and skilled users of media often go hand in hand. But the use of technology to bring students into closer contact with the outside world did not begin with the first computer in a classroom. In this book, Katie Day Good traces the roots of the digital era's “connected learning” and “global classrooms” to the first half of the twentieth century, when educators adopted a range of media and materials—including lantern slides, bulletin boards, radios, and film projectors—as what she terms “technologies of global citizenship.” Good describes how progressive reformers in the early twentieth century made a case for deploying diverse media technologies in the classroom to promote cosmopolitanism and civic-minded learning. To “bring the world to the child,” these reformers praised not only new mechanical media—including stereoscopes, photography, and educational films—but also humbler forms of media, created by teachers and children, including scrapbooks, peace pageants, and pen pal correspondence. The goal was a “mediated cosmopolitanism,” teaching children to look outward onto a fast-changing world—and inward, at their own national greatness. Good argues that the public school system became a fraught site of global media reception, production, and exchange in American life, teaching children to engage with cultural differences while reinforcing hegemonic ideas about race, citizenship, and US-world relations.

Author : Barbara B. Seels,Rita C. Richey
Publisher : IAP
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617359057

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Instructional Technology by Barbara B. Seels,Rita C. Richey Pdf

The Association officially endorses this definition of Instructional Technology which has been developed over three years by the Committee on Definition and Terminology. The Association recognizes that other theoretical frameworks exist and that these are valid, but believes that these are part of the more inclusive theoretical framework of Instructional Technology used in this definition. In making this definition and the document explaining it available, we hope to help other organizations clarify their relationship to the broad field of Instructional Technology. Although the Association offers this definition as its current position, it is committed to a continuous reevaluation of the definition and to revising and publishing it so that it reflects changing concepts and terminology. A document of this magnitude can only be produced as the result of the dedication and effort of the persons who formed the committee and of its chairperson, Barbara Seels and her collaborator, Rita C. Richey. Without their energies, skill, perseverance, and willingness to risk stating their perceptions in this format we could not have offered this document. Whether or not we agree with the statements presented here, they will provide a benchmark and a point of dialogue for further development of a profession which seeks to provide conditions for effective learning.