Education 205 FALL 1999

Learning Technologies

in Homes, Schools & Communities

Traditionally, courses on educational technologies have focused on software installed and used in formal school settings such as elementary schools, colleges and universities. Here we will cast a wider net by including informal settings such as people's homes, museums, and community networks. By learning technologies we understand all kinds of technologies: multimedia CD-ROMs, WorldWideWeb, digital libraries, virtual reality, programming languages, computer-assisted instruction, intelligent tutoring systems, and networks. The course will provide a historical introduction, review applications in different settings, and examine social and legal issues surrounding the access to and use of learning technologies. This overview will be complemented several lab sessions in which we will evaluate learning technologies first hand and a final project in which course participants will produce a resource site about educational technologies for teachers.

Tuesdays, 5:00pm­8:00pm

Moore Hall 3140

Yasmin B. Kafai

2331 Moore Hall

310 206 8150

kafai@gseis.ucla.edu

COURSE SCHEDULE

OCTOBER 5: Introduction and Course Overview

OCTOBER 12: History of Learning Technologies

OCTOBER 19: School Settings: Sciences (Guest Lecturer: Dr. Iris Tabak)

OCTOBER 26: School Settings: Mathematics and Programming

NOVEMBER 2: School Settings: Language Arts & Internet

NOVEMBER 9: School Settings: Social Sciences & Digital Librairies

NOVEMBER 16: Home Settings & Software Evaluation

NOVEMBER 23: Community Settings

NOVEMBER 30: Issues: Equity and Rights (Guest Lecturer: Cynthia C. Ching)

DECEMBER 7: Issues: The Media Debate and Final Presentations

OCTOBER 5 Introduction and Course Overview

see Ed205/99/Book Listings

OCTOBER 12 History of Learning Technologies

Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines (pp. 1-71). New York: Columbia University Press.

Papert, S. (1993). Computerists. In The children's machine (pp. 157-178). New York: Basic Books.

Papert, S. (1980/1993). Computers and computer cultures. In Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas (pp. 19-37). New York: Harvester & Wheatsheaf.

Papert, S. (1980/1993). Images of the learning society. In Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas (pp. 177-189). New York: Harvester & Wheatsheaf.

Suppes, P. (1980). Computer-based mathematics instruction. In R. Taylor (Ed.), The computer in school: Tutor, tool, tutee (pp. 215-230). New York: Teachers College Press.

Suppes, P. (1980). Impact of computers on curriculum in the schools and universities. In R. Taylor (Ed.), The computer in school: Tutor, tool, tutee (pp. 236-247). New York: Teachers College Press.

See also for historical overview: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/techhistory.htm

See also for recent work of Papert & colleagues: http://el.www.media.mit.edu/

OCTOBER 19 School Setting: Sciences (Guest Lecturer Dr. I. Tabak)

Gordin, D. N., Polman, J. L., & Pea, R. D. (1994). The climate visualizer: Sense-making through scientific visualization. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 3(4), 203-226.

See also for CoVis: http://www.covis.nwu.edu/

See also for Collaborative Notebook: http://www.ls.sesp.nwu.edu/cnb/

Linn, M. C., Bell, P. & Hsi, S. (1998). Using the Internet to enhance student understanding of science: The Knowledge Integration Environment. Interactive Learning Environments, 6(1-2), 4-38.
http://wise.berkeley.edu/WISE/index.html

Resnick, M. (1994). Learning About Life. Artificial Life Journal, 1(1-2), 229 -241. http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/elpapers.html#mres-papers

Smith, B.K. & Reiser, B.J. (1998). National Geographic unplugged: Classroom-centered design of interactive nature films. In Proceedings of CHI 98 (pp. 424-431). New York: ACM Press.
http://www.media.mit.edu/explain/blueprints.html

Scardamalia,M., Bereiter, C., Brett, C., Burtis, P. J., Calhoun, C., & Lea, N. S. (1992). Educational applications of a networked communal database. Interactive Learning Environments, 2(1), 45-71.

OCTOBER 26 School Setting: Mathematics and Programming

Harel, I. & Papert, S. (1990). Software Design as a Learning Environment. Interactive Learning Environments, 1(1), 1-32.

Koschmann, T. (in press). Logo-as-Latin redux. Journal of the Learning Sciences.

Noss, R., & Hoyles, C. (1996). Windows on mathematical meanings (chapter: Cultures and change). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishing.

O'Shea, T. (in press). Mindstorms 2. Journal of the Learning Sciences.

Papert, S. (in press). Why school reform is impossible. Journal of the Learning Sciences.

Pea, R. D., Kurland, D. M., & Hawkins, J. (1990). Logo and the development of thinking skills. In R. D. Pea and K. Sheingold (Eds.), Mirrors of mind: Patterns of experience in educational computing (pp. 178-197). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.

See also for new Logo version Microworlds™: http://www.lcsi.ca/

NOVEMBER 2 School Settings: Language Arts

Bangert-Drowns, R. L. (1993). The word processor as an instructional tool: A meta-analysis of word processing in writing instruction. Review of Educational Research 63(1), 69-93.

Bruce, B. C., & Rubin, A. (1991). Electronic Quills: A situated evaluation of using computers for writing in classrooms. (chapters 7 and 8). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Pinkard, N. (in press). Lyric Reader: An architecture for creating intriniscally motivating and culturally responsive reading environments. Interactive Learning Environments.

See also under people: http://hi-c.eecs.umich.edu/

Riel, M. & Levin, J. A. (1990). Building electronic communities: Success and failure in computer networking. Instructional Science, 19, 145-169.

Crane, G. & Mylonas, E. (1994). Ancient materials, modern media: Shaping the study of classics with hypermedia. In. P. Delaney and G. P. Landow (Eds.), Hypermedia and literary studies (pp. 205-220). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

See also: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Kafai, Y. B. & Bates, M. (1997). Internet web-searching instruction in the elementary classroom: Building a foundation for information literacy. School Media Library Quarterly, 37(9), 18-22.

See also: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/SNAP/snapdragon.html

Lehrer, R. (1992). Authors of Knowledge: Patterns of Hypermedia Design. In S. Lajoie, & S. Derry (Eds.), Computers as Cognitive Tools. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Marchionini, G. & Crane, G. (1994). Evaluating hypermedia and learning: Methods and results from the Perseus project. ACM Transcations on Information Systems, 12(1), 5-34.

Marchionini, G. & Maurer, H. (1995). The roles of digital librairies in teaching and learning. Communications of the ACM, 38(4), 67-76.

Walter, V. (1994). The information needs of children. Advances in Librarianship, 18, 111-129.

See also for American Memory Project: http://memory.loc.gov/

NOVEMBER 16 Computers in Home Settings

Epstein, J. L. (1985). Home and school connections in schools of the future: Implications of research on parent involvement. Peabody Journal of Education, 62(2), 18-41.

Giaquinta, J. B., & Lane, P. A. (1990). Fifty-one families with computers: A study of children's academic uses of microcomputers at home. Educational Technology Research & Development, 38(2), 27-37.

Heller, R. S. (1991). Evaluating software: A review of the options. Computers in Education, 17(4), 285-291.

Hess, R. D., & McGarvey, L. J. (1987). School-relevant effects of educational uses of microcomputers in kindergarten classrooms and homes. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 3(3), 269-287.

Miller-Lachmann, L. (1994). Bytes and bias, eliminating cultural stereotypes from educational software. School Library Journal, 40(11), 26-30.

Venkatesh, A. (1996). Computers and other interactive technologies for the home. Communications of the ACM, 39(12), 47-54.

NOVEMBER 23 Community Settings

Bruckman, A. & Resnick, M. (1996). The MediaMoo project: Constructionism and professional community. In Y. Kafai and M. Resnick (Eds.), Constructionism in practice: Designing, thinking, and learning in a digital world (pp. 207-222). Mawhaw, Nj: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/papers/index.html#convergence

Carroll, J. M., & Rosson, M. B. (1996) Developing the Blacksburg Electronic Village. Communications of the ACM, 39(12), 69-74.

See also: http://www.bev.net/

Resnick, M. & Rusk, N. (1996). The computer clubhouse: Helping youth develop fluency with new media. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Learning Sciences, Evanston, IL, pp. 285-291. http://el.www.media.mit.edu/Papers/mres/Comp_club/Clubhouse.html

See also: http://www.computerclubhouse.org/

Schuler, D. (1994). Community networks: Building a new participatory medium. Communications of the ACM, 37(1), 39­51.

Shaw, A. (1996). Social constructionism and the inner city: Designing environments for social development and urban renewal. In Y. Kafai and M. Resnick (Eds.), Constructionism in practice: Designing, thinking, and learning in a digital world (pp. 175-206). Mawhaw, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

See also: http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/acs/

NOVEMBER 30 Issues: Equity and Rights (with Cynthia C. Ching)

Ching, C. C., Kafai, Y. B., & Marshall, S. (in press). Spaces for change: Gender and technology access in collaborative software design. Journal in Science Education and Technology. Also in N. Yelland & A. Rubin (in press). Ghosts in the machine: Women study women and technology. New York: Peter Land Publishers.

Schofield, J. W. (1995). The computer room for gifted students: A (bright, white boys') lunch club. In Computers and classroom culture (pp. 134-163). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Schofield, J. W. (1995). Girls and computer science: Fitting in, fighting back, and fleeing. In Computers and classroom culture (pp. 164-189). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sutton, R. E. (1991). Equity and computers. Review of Educational Research, 61(4), 474-505.

See also: Lazarus, W. & Lipper, L. (1994, September). Amercia's children & the information highway. A briefing book and national action agenda. Santa Monica, CA: The Children's Partnership. http://www.childrenspartnership.org/home.html

BENTON FOUNDATION
http://www.benton.org/

Center for Media Education
http://www.cme.org/

DECEMBER 7 Issues: The Media Debate

Clark, R. (1983). Reconsidering research on learning from media. Review of Educational Research, 53(4), 445-459.

Kay, A. (1995). Powerful ideas need love too! Remarks to Joint Hearing of the Science Committee and the Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee.

Kozma, R. (1991). Learning with Media. Review of Educational Research, 61(2), 179-211.

Papert, S. (1995). Technology in schools: local fix or global transformation? Remarks to H. R. Panel on Technology and Education.

Presidents' Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology: Panel on Educational Technology (1997). Report to the President on the Use of Technology to Strengthen K-12 Education in the United States (Executive summary).Washington, DC.

See also: http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/NSTC/PCAST/k-12ed.html

YKB 7/9/99