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Exploring Teachers and Technology: Navigating Educational Tools

Uncover why "Teachers and Technology" are interconnected and dive into the historical reasons for the invisibility of the teacher in educational technology. Understand the assumptions and challenges teachers face when integrating technology into the classroom, and explore the impact of technology's inevitability on modern teaching practices. Join us on this educational journey to discover the complexities of teaching in a tech-driven world.

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Exploring Teachers and Technology: Navigating Educational Tools

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  1. CEP953 Teachers and Technology

  2. Raven Wallace ravenmw@msu.edu 513G Erickson Hall 353-9272 http://www.msu.edu/course/cep/953/ http://blackboard.msu.edu/

  3. Why “Teachers and Technology”? • Why not TEACHING and technology? • Why technology at all?

  4. Why “Teachers and Technology”? • The Invisibility of the Teacher • The Inevitability of Technology

  5. The Invisibility of the Teacher • For understandable (historical) reasons: • Software development (focus on student learning) • Software deployment (focus on creating a successful environment)

  6. 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

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

  8. Why “Teachers and Technology”? • Why not TEACHING and technology? • Why technology at all?

  9. 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

  10. 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

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