May 18, 2008
On-Line Articles Indexed by Issue
Volume 11, 2002
Number 4, Winter 2002
- Editorial: Of Victories and Ventures
- By Michael F. Sullivan
- After 12½ years of service to AIT, it's time to say goodbye.
- Café TECHNOS: Grand Theft Auto, the Video Game Everyone Loves to Hate, Allows Ethics and Morality Lessons
- By Thom Gillespie, Maître d'Igital
- Your kids think this violent video game is a blast. You might too, if you considered the teaching opportunities it presents.
- Standing in the Middle of a Cyclone: Online Education Comes of Age
- By Gene I. Maeroff
- Investigating the state of online education for his new book left this longtime journalist feeling as if he were taking snapshots within a cyclone of change.
- Commentary: Boards of Education: The Need for Effective Leadership
- By William L. Bainbridge and M. Donald Thomas
- School boards need to focus more on setting policy and less on micro-managing superintendents and school systems.
- Your Media, My Literacy: A Curriculum Model Considered
- By Jack Barwind and James Piecowye
- Teaching media literacy must begin with an understanding of the cultures in which it exists. Two professors at a Middle Eastern all-women's university are grappling with the wedding of local and global life in their mass-media classrooms.
- Poem:
Message to Johannes Gutenberg - By George Hall, TECHNOS Poet Laureate
- All good things must come to an end.
- Colloquium: Resources for Increasing Digital Equity Needed
- By Joy Wallace
- At least one group has been working on digital equity strategies and resources to assist educators from kindergarten to college.
- Diverse Schools Are Stronger Academically and Socially
- By Eileen Gale Kugler
- Take the time to walk in the door, and you will see the benefits of having diverse populations in public schools.
- The Last Page: All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.
- By Robert Fulghum © 1993
- Enough said!
Number 3, Fall 2002
- TQ Editorial: “We Are the Press. You Know Our Power.”
- By Michael F. Sullivan, Executive Director, Agency for Instructional Technology
- Time to Move Beyond Infrastructure
- By Daryl L. Nardick
- Before technology is integrated on campus, everyone needs to sit down and talk.
- So, You Want to Start an Academic Internship Program?
- By Caleb John Clark
- It's not as easy as you might think. First, you have to plan; then schmooze . . .
- The Transformation of Educational Publishing: The Emergence and Growth of a Teacher-Centered, Learning-Object Environment
- By Louis C. Pugliese
- The digital distribution of educational materials will soon transform learning.
- Café TECHNOS: “Hard Fun” . . . Squeak!
- By Thom Gillespie, Maître d'Igital
- Alan Kay's Squeak programming system is free for students, parents, and teachers.
- COLLOQUIUM: ©
Publish Or Perish! The Copyright Law's Requirement - By Leonard D. DuBoff © 2002
- Don't wait till the deadline of December 31, 2002, to reclaim copyright on earlier works.
Number 2, Summer 2002
Number 1, Spring 2002
Volume 10, 2001
Number 4, Winter 2001
- Editorial
- Egocentric Education Produces Ugly Americans
- by Michael F. Sullivan
- If Baboons Ran Schools
- by Thom Gillespie, Maître d'Igital for Café TECHNOS
- We can learn lessons from our fellow primates, including how to curb aggression.
- School-Based Technology in Kenya: The Noble Dream
- by Abigail N. Sanya
- Technology exists in Kenya's schools but to differing degrees.
- Message to My Granddaughter
- A Poem by George Hall
- A hopeful reflection on September 11.
- Global Security and Global Civil Society
- by Janet Bloomfield
- We must treat each other as neighbors if we are to save our species from extinction.
- Mongolia, Multimedia Memories, and Me
- by Joe Buchman
- Half a world away, technology ties people together—in a manner of speaking.
Number 3, Fall 2001
- Can Web-Based Collaboration Reform Education?
- by Joe Slowinski, Tiffany Anderson, and Julie Reinhart
- With proper Web connections and training, teachers can reach out to schools at every level.
- Technology in Education: The Boom Is Behind Us
- by Michael Molenda and Michael Sullivan
- Instructional technologies were greeted with enthusiasm but are being utilized with restraint.
- The Way We Were . . . Education on the Fly
- by Dave Gibson
- Forty years ago The Flying Classroom delivered educational programming to schools in the Midwest.
- Together Again? The New Case for Public Telecommunications and Education Partnerships
- by Michael Connet and James Fellows
- Public television is on the verge of digital dynamism, and education looks to benefit.
- Commander Laurel's Excellent Adventure
- by Thom Gillespie, Maître d'Igital for Café TECHNOS
- Digital storyteller Brenda Laurel started an e-business that crashed and burned but she also learned some important lessons.
Number 2, Summer 2001
- TECHNOS Interview
- Caroline M. Hoxby
- A Harvard University economics professor offers her take on the economics of schools.
- www.p2p.edu: Rip, Mix & Burn Your Education
- by Thom Gillespie, Maître d'Igital for Café TECHNOS
- It's not like your father's school—and it's not like yours, either. New technologies will revolutionize education with peer-to-peer intimacy, access, and speed.
- Looking in the Mirror—An Educator's Thoughts on Education
- by James Cisek
- “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” Time for school administrators to take the lead.
Number 1, Spring 2001
- TECHNOS Interview
- Daniel Greenberg
- A 30-year-old education experiment, Sudbury Valley School, is based on democratic rule and student freedom of choice. One of its founders explains why it is still going strong.
- The Trojan Horse of Education
- by Daniel Greenberg
- That which we embrace may destroy us.
- Log On and Deliver, But Rest First (An Article about Teaching via the Internet)
- by William E. Byxbee
- Forget about facing a classroom filled with 30 students—online teaching can be every bit as tiring, even with half the students.
- An Alternative School Voucher System
- by Russell L. Ackoff
- The right voucher system would force schools to compete to survive and in turn provide a better education to their customers.
- Information Literacy—Where Do We Go from Here?
- by Melissa Koch
- As more states are devising standards to include information literacy, teachers and students need a definition and a roadmap to guide them.
- Deus Machina
- by Neil Postman
- This fable for the New Millennium, a reprint from our first year of publication, is a tenth-anniversary treat for TECHNOS readers.
- A Technology Backlash? It's Time for a Mid-Course Review
- by Laurence Peters
- What we need now is a real dialogue concerning education technology—or forever hold our peace.
Volume 9, 2000
Number 4, Winter 2000
- Giants of American Education: John Dewey, The Education Philosopher
- by Sybil Eakin
- What would Dewey think? The second in our series of occasional biographies of pioneers in American education profiles John Dewey.
- A Matter of Degree
- by Jason Ohler
- Education reform: At what point should we say, “Enough, already!”?
- Literacy, Learning, and Media
- by Dennis Adams and Mary Hamm
- Who is literate in the age of digital media? How will we determine if our kids are learning? We need new ways of assessing these skills.
- LOL: Lots of Luck? Laughing Out Loud? Or Learning Outside the Lines…An Interview About Alternative Learning with Jonathan Mooney
- by Thom Gillespie, Maître d'Igital for Café TECHNOS
- How can we help LD and ADHD kids learn? The author of a surprise best-selling book has a few good ideas.
Number 3, Fall 2000
- TECHNOS Interview
- Russell L. Ackoff, Professor Emeritus of Management Science, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
- A pioneer in the study of organizational operations and systems, Russ Ackoff offers solutions for schools based on his innovative corporate models.
- All Aboard the Story Engine!
- by Thom Gillespie, Maître d'Igital for Café TECHNOS
- The Great Canadian Story Engine, an interactive online archive, preserves the oral tradition and offers another way to teach history—through the personal voice.
- John Dewey Never Said It Would Be Easy: Designing Education in the 21st Century
- by Jerrold E. Kemp, 2000 TECHNOS Press Author
- As we enter a new century, a longtime advocate for a systematic process of changing education outlines his plan.
Number 2, Summer 2000
- Giants of American Education: Horace Mann
- by Sybil Eakin, Contributing Editor
- The first in a series of occasional biographies of pioneers in American education profiles Horace Mann, father of our public education system.
- Violence, Games & Art, Part II
- by Thom Gillespie, Maître d'Igital for Café TECHNOS
- A university researcher talks about disinhibition and progressive desensitization in children using violent video games.
- Bridging the New Digital Divide: Lessons from Across the Atlantic
- by Laurence Peters
- In the UK, there's a “third way” to integrate technology with the standards-based education movement in K–12schools.
- Teachers Building an Intranet: WebSchool Is Born
- by Lisa Bartles
- A technology coordinator devises a summer professional development institute for teachers who want to incorporate the Web into their curriculum.
- Using Technology to Create a New Paradigm for a Learner-Centered Educational Experience
- by Phillip Harris and Michael F. Sullivan
- Two leaders of technology organizations propose a new way of thinking about education and utilizing technology
Number 1, Spring 2000
- TECHNOS Interview
- Chris Whittle, President and CEO of Edison Schools
- Should the private management of public education be profitable? Chris Whittle, who began his ventures into the education market with Channel One in 1989, and whose Edison Schools are growing in a big way, thinks so. And he's not going to back off now.
- Teacher Education and Corporations: Unlikely Partners with Potential
- by Donna L. Wiseman
- More partnerships between corporations and university teacher preparation programs would benefit both parties, as well as the teachers in training
- Violence, Games & Art (Part 1)
- by Thom Gillespie, Maître d'Igital for Café TECHNOS
- Is your kid a hardcore gamer? Should it worry you? Join us in the café for some thought-provoking discussion.
- Commentary: Computer Dictatorship
- by Herbert London
- What have we wrought? Our dependence on computerization may someday be our undoing.
- Colloquium: Internet Ethics
- by Cindy Emmans
- An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Our kids need guidelines for using the Internet, before they log on.
Volume 8, 1999
Number 4, Winter 1999
- TECHNOS Interview I: On Yesterday
- Paul Levinson, President and Founder of Connected Education, Inc.
- What applications are there for the theories of media guru Marshall
McLuhan to today's technology and society?
- TECHNOS Interview II: On Today
- Jane M. Healy, Educational Psychologist
- A longtime advocate for children warns against toddlers and primary students using computers.
- TECHNOS Interview III: On Tomorrow
- Gregory J. E. Rawlins, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University
- What does the future hold for us, technologically speaking? Will we go with the flow, or resist change?
Number 3, Fall 1999
- TECHNOS Interview
- Arthur E. Wise, President, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
- In the 21st Century, universities will need to change their teacher-training programs to include new ways of learning, including the use of technology.
- Polyhedra City: A Mentoring Case Study
- by Kay Toliver as told to Racquel Skolnik
- One way to train teachers for tomorrow's classrooms is to mentor them today, as this master teacher is doing.
- A Primer on Taming the Beast
- by Jason Ohler, 1999 TECHNOS Press Author
- Feeling a little out of control where technology is concerned? In this new book, Mr. Ohler offers ways to “tame the beast in the electronic jungle.”
- The Two Sides of the School Culture Coin
- by Crawford Kilian
- Standard or Interactive: Which school culture do you want your children to learn in?
Number 2, Summer 1999
- TECHNOS Interview
- Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
- During his 35-year tenure as president of Notre Dame, Father Ted Hesburgh has been leading by example in the present while thinking ahead to the future. Along the way, he's developed a few ideas for making the world a better place.
- Message on Our Failures to Reform
- A Poem by George Hall
- Sisyphus-like, we strive, but fail, to reform education; yet we persevere
- At Home and On Line
- by Rhonda Rieseberg
- One alternative to public schools is the home school. This writer shares her observations about its recent resurgence.
Number 1, Spring 1999
- TECHNOS Interview
- Barbara Radding Morgan
- NASA's first Educator Mission Specialist hopes to bring the wonders of space to classrooms everywhere.
- Calling the NCAA's Heavy Hand
- by Joe Nathan
- Not content to control lucrative college sports programs, the NCAA is also charged with influencing high school course content and national education standards.
- Exploring the Real World Online
- by Jim Woodell and James Gray
- Students experience the excitement of geography as GlobaLearn launches its seventh real-life global expedition online.
Volume 7, 1998
Number 4, Winter 1998
- TECHNOS Interview
- Nadine Strossen, ACLU President
- This recognized lawyer, author, educator, and passionate civil liberties
advocate is a natural to head the ACLU, prime defender of the Bill of Rights.
- Let's Tie the Digital Knot
- by Seymour Papert
- Chutzpah, paradigmatic vision, and plain language can take us from
server to inventor of education.
- Raising the Investment Quotient
- by Paul F. Kraack
- Voters in Clayton County GA showed their commitment to education at
the polls—and it's paying off for everyone.
Number 3, Fall, 1998
- TECHNOS Interview
- Johathan Kozol, Writer
- Best-selling author and activist Jonathan Kozol discusses his commitment
to the children who live in our poorest inner-city neighborhoods.
- Creating the Virtual Middle Ground
- By Michael Heim
- Virtual realism is the strategy this brilliant author, teacher, and
thinker has developed to balance increasingly polarized attitudes toward
visualization.
- Technology on Board
- By Anne L. Bryant
- Committed to raising student achievement, NSBA recognizes that technology
plays an integral role in instructional delivery plans—top to bottom.
Number 2, Summer, 1998
- TECHNOS Interview
- Vint Cerf, Senior VP of MCI Architecture and Development
- Father of the Internet and “trekkie” Vint Cerf discusses the
Net—past, present, and future—and other technology wonders.
- The Learning Odyssey—Extending the Net
- by Walter Koetke
- A revolutionary Internet curriculum makes solid learning accessible
to students and involved adults—all over the world.
- Computers Make Kids Smarter—Right?
- by Heather Kirkpatrick and Larry Cuban
- Research reveals some important considerations and surprising answers
as to where technology dollars might best be spent.
Number 1, Spring, 1998
- TECHNOS Interview
- Bob Chase, President of NEA
- This candid and charismatic educator looks forward to an exciting era
with big changes for schools and teachers.
- The Leonardo Loop: Science Returns to Art
- by James Bailey
- The future for tomorrow's giants of science and industry begins in
today's art classrooms, says this guru of parallel supercomputing.
- Readers Play Catch Up—and Win
- by Terry Hyland
- Boys Town USA is still changing the way America cares for its children
with its successful literacy program, Reading Is FAME.
Volume 6, 1997
Number 4, Winter, 1997
- TECHNOS Interview
- Esther Dyson, President of EDventure Holdings and Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- It is possible, technically, to have total freedom of choice and content
control systems in effect at the same time. In fact, the Internet’s
future looks great, if we act responsibly.
- Banking on Educational Software: A Wired Economy Unfolds
- by Jeremy Roschelle, Byron Henderson, Jim Spohrer, and John Lilly
- The Educational Object Economy, an online community that focuses on
the creation and sharing of educational activities, sees an emerging, coexisting
marketplace similar to libraries and bookstores—and much more—in
education’s future.
- Learn & Live™: Imagine the Possibilities
- by Mark Sargent
- With the launch of Learn and Live™, the George Lucas Educational
Foundation is spreading the news that innovative teaching, combined with
effective uses of technology, creates dynamic public schools where real
learning occurs.
Number 3, Fall, 1997
- TECHNOS Interview
- Lewis J. Perelman, President of Kanbrain Institute and Executive Editor, Knowledge Inc.
- Although the American education system is the best in the world, it's
the wrong “best.” Academic obsolescence is inevitable, as traditional
education is replaced bykanbrain or on-demand learning.
- Toward Equity: Bringing the Community into the School
- by Judith A. Billings
- This veteran educator is convinced that education is the answer
to many individual and societal problems—and it must be our top public
priority as a nation.
- Educators on the Edge: Spreading the Wise Use of Technology
- by Sybil S. Eakin
- When 25 technologically savvy world-class teachers from 12 countries
meet to share strategies and go online, educators everywhere benefit and
grow.
Number 2, Summer, 1997
- TECHNOS Interview
- Jeff Howard, Founder and President of the Efficacy Institute, Inc.
- Intelligence, properly understood as a process of ‘getting smart,’
is a social endowment, not a genetic one. All children can learn at very
high levels if the process of education is effectively organized.
- Technology Changes Intelligence: Societal Implications and Soaring IQs
- by Robert J. Sternberg
- Althought technology has been credited with massive and universal IQ
gains, it has also cursed us with weapons and trashy television.
- Bioelectronic Learning: The Effects of Electronic Media on a Developing Brain
- by Robert Sylwester
- Today, human brain systems are being subtly but powerfully exploited
by increasingly sophisticated electronic media. What are the implications
for children's learning?
Number 1, Spring, 1997
- TECHNOS Interview
- Reed Hundt, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
- The FCC is using increased marketplace competition and school discounts
on advanced telecommunication services to ensure a 21st-century education
for every American student.
- Field Trip: Multimedia and the Curriculum
- By George McBroom
- Mainland High School is a three-time National Blue Ribbon Winner School
that's both serious and successful in its use of technology.
- Reform and Tomorrow's Schools
- By Marvin Cetron
- A noted forecaster discusses reforms that must be addressed now for
tomorrow's schools.
Volume 5, 1996
- TECHNOS Interview
- Bob Keeshan, TV's Captain Kangaroo
- "Kids don't drop out of high school; they drop out in kindergarten.
They just hang around a few more years to make it official."
- KIDMONEY: Children as Big Business
- By Shelly Reese, freelance writer
- In addition to the $187-billion kid and parent market, schools and
the Internet provide increasingly lucrative arenas for advertisers.
- Field Trip: Cristo Rey - Partnerships for Life
- By Shawna Brynildssen, freelance writer
- A vision and multiple partnerships created this new Jesuit college-preparatory
high school that's also a work-study - and dual language - facility for
an inner city immigrant population.
- E-mail to the Neighborhood
- By Fred Rogers, performer, writer, and host of Mister Rogers Neighborhood
- Children and their families e-mail their concerns about starting
school to Mr. Rogers in a unique PBS online project..
- TECHNOS Interview
- Gerald R. Ford, former President, United States of America
- The federal government and private industries must share equally
in educational reform by reducing expenditures, stimulating local control,
and providing access to emerging technologies.
- Illumination in the Desert
- By Kenneth Goodall, freelance writer
- Benedictines at the Christ in the Desert monastery turn to the illumination
of cyberbooks, and bring the Vatican online.
- Restructing Education Finance: A Dialogue Across the Street from the Garden of Eden
- By Morton J. Marcus, Economist at the School of Business, Indiana University, and AIT’s 1996 Distinguished Fellow
- In a lively dialogue with his fiscally adept neighbor, political
cynic Septum Sixpack learns how higher taxes and federal control of schools
will aid educational reform, retirement income, and intergenerational
relationships.
- Universal Service Brings Fiber to Their Doorsteps
- By Steven Vedro, public telecommunication policy consultant
- In the light of competitive communications technologies, educators
and civic agencies need to play a greater role in federal and state regulations
of universal information services.
- TECHNOS Interview
- Deborah Meier, Co-Director and Principal of Central Park East Secondary School and Senior Annenberg Fellow for the New York Networks for School Renewal
- Respect and involvement for all its children, parents, and educators
and their ideas are keys to Central Park East’s success that can
be modeled by schools everywhere.
- Realizing the Promise of Technology in America’s Schools
- By Edward M. Kenedy, U.S. Senator, Massachusetts
- Shifts in the use of classroom technologies will fulfill objectives
of the educational reform movement.
- Colloquium: The 4 Rs
- By Jason Ohler, director of the University of Alaska's Educational Technology Program
- Inherent in emerging technologies, art should become a staple of
K-12 literacy-and the fourth basic R.
- FORUM: National Education Summit
- By Sybil E. Eakin
- The recent Education Summit witnessed a realignment of forces behind
educational reform. TECHNOS presents perspectives of key participants
and observers.
- TECHNOS Interview
- Milton Friedman, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University
- Introduce competition from the outside, and public school systems
will shape up—or shut down.
- Achieving School Reform through Technology
- By Howard D. Mehlinger, Director, Center for Excellence in Education, Indiana University, Bloomington
- School reform will fly farther and faster in the tailwind of technology.
- Colloquium
Pay Now or Pay Later - By William L. Lepley, President, and A. James Jones, Director of Learning Technologies, Milton Hershey School
- America does know how to nurture and educate its poor children.
But is it willing to foot the bill?
Number 4, Winter 1996
Number 3, Fall 1996
Number 2, Summer 1996
Number 1, Spring 1996
Volume 4, 1995
Number 4, Winter 1995
- TECHNOS Interview
- Luther S. Williams, Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation
- NSF systemic initiatives have added requirements for synergy, support,
and planning to education reform efforts.
- A Teacher's Perspective on the NII
- By Bonnie Bracey, Member, Vice President's Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure
- Now is the time to get involved if you care about the change from chalk
and talk to the use of technology as a tool in our schools.
- Beyond the Textbook: Learner-Powered Multimedia
- By John Kerin, Senior Vice President, Information Management, and Charlotte Frank, Vice President, Research & Development, Educational and Professional Publishing Group, The McGraw-Hill Companies
- Educational publishing is being redefined by publishers who take advantage
of the "hyperconnectivity" of distribution media.
Number 3, Fall 1995
- TECHNOS Interview
- Ernest L. Boyer, President, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- A higly respected servant of education shares his insights on teaching
values, abolishing the U.S. Department of Education, reforming education
through the use of technology, and his lifelong commitment to America's
children.
- The Internet as School, or Welcome to Our MUD Room
- By Ralph Brauer, Executive Director, Transforming Schools Consortium
- Say goodbye to the little red schoolhouse. When the Internet becomes
the school, students are free to explore nearly unlimited learning resources
available on-line. It's a "virtual schoolhouse," and will revolutionize
education.
Number 2, Summer 1995
- The Strange but True Story of Multimedia and the Type I Error
- By Richard P. Lookatch, Educational Psychologist, Agency for Instructional Techology
- The techno wizards graduating from our universities are strong on expensive
"gee-whiz" graphics but weak on research.
- FORUM: Censorship and Electronic Communication
in the K–12 Environment
- Four essays suggest answers to questions surrounding the use of the
Internet in K–12 schools, especially the question of censorship of
on-line information.
- Right-of-Way on the Information Superhighway
By Joan M. Mazur, Assistant Professor of Instructional Design and Technology, College of Education, University of Kentucky - Censorship and Electronic Environments
By Jennifer Spaeth, Math and Computer Teacher, San Francisco (California) Day School - The Internet May Be the Safest Haven
By Les Radke, Regional Occupation Program Teacher, Richmod (California) High School
- Right-of-Way on the Information Superhighway
Number 1, Spring 1995
- TECHNOS Interview
- John R. McKernan, Jr., Former Governor, State of Maine
- Not everyone needs a college education. Maine's Youth Apprenticeship
Program attempts to reach the forgotten middle third of students who need
technical training for employment.
- Home Learning, Technology, and Tomorrow's Workplace
- By Rhonda L. Rieseberg
- For a number of reasons, the home learning movement is gaining momentum.
Technology is often an integral part of the daily lessons, and preparation
for the workplace of tomorrow is one of the goals.
- Learning: A New Dimension in the NII Age
- By Frank B. Withrow, Director of Learning Technologies, Coucil of Chief State School Officers, and Anuradha Sapru Kohls, Project Associate
- Will education find its niche in the National Information Infrastructure?
The "Father of ‘Sesame Street’" shares insights and
recommendations for distance learning in the Information Age.
Volume 3, 1994
Number 4, Winter 1994
- What's Wrong with This Picture?
- By Emily Eakin
- Electromagnetic fields may be a source of health hazards for both workers
and students. Setting a policy of prudent avoidance can forestall problems.
- From Lean-and-Mean Times to the Millennium
- By Gerald W. Bracey, Ph.D., AIT Distinguished Fellow
- Why has the implementation of technology in the classroom taken so
long? What good things are happening, despite the obstacles?
Number 3, Fall 1994
- TECHNOS Interview
- Thomas J. Peters, Management Consultant
- What can business management expert and best-selling author Tom Peters
teach the education establishment? Lots. Just ask him.
- No Girls Allowed!
- By Melissa Koch, Educational Technology Consultant
- If we understand why girls are often turned off of technology, we can
avoid the gender equity trap.
Number 2, Summer 1994
- TECHNOS Interview
- Linda Darling-Hammond, Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Keys to education reform include developing alternative assessments
and changing curriculum.
- A Little Help, Please: Assistive, Adaptive, Amazing Technologies
- By John Pesta
- Assistive technologies can free the physically challenged to lead
independent, productive lives.
- The Passive-Aggressive Paradox of On-Line Discourse
- By Crawford Kilian, Coordinator, Communications Department, Capilano College
- So you think your on-line conversation is private? Think again.
- Forum-New Media and the Law: Protecting the Goodies in the Digital Candy Store
- By Kenneth Wasch, Executive Director, Software Publishers Association
Number 1, Spring 1994
- Virtual Reality: Ready or Not!
- By Joan E. Lewis
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The next best thing to being there—it's virtually here, in our homes and schools. Are we ready for it? Shouldn't we be?
- The Internetworked School
- By Barry J. Fishman, Learning Science Program, and Roy D. Pea, Dean, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
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Internetworking is hot in K–12 schools, but problems can arise. With some planning and a policy for use, they can be averted.
- Of Techno Wizards, Cyber Puppets, and the Persistence of Vision
- By Frank Batavick, Director of Projects and New Products, Agency for Instructional Technology
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Where are our visionaries when we need them? Today's multi-media materials offer too much mindless violence and not enough educational promise.
Volume 2, 1993
Number 4, Winter 1993
- Mississippi's LEAP Toward Literacy
- By Edwin E. Meek, Director, Public Relations and Resource Development, The University of Mississippi
- Through Project LEAP, satellite technology is helping Mississippi
solve its adult illiteracy and unemployment problems.
- Profile: Inspiring Young Minds—Kay Toliver
- By Arwen Larson, Research Associate, Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education
- Math teacher Kay Toliver, whose innovative techniques have been her
hallmark for nearly 30 years, has finally been discovered.
- Of Luddites, Learning, and Life
- By Neil Postman, professor of media ecology and chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University.
- Postman says to those who say that new technologies will soon make
schools extinct, they have it all wrong, because they don't understand
the real purpose of schools.
Number 3, Fall 1993
- TECHNOS Interview
- John I. Goodlad, Professor of Education and Director, Center for Educational Renewal, University of Washington
- A veteran educator and reformer, John Goodlad is fighting yet another
round in the battle to improve schools and teachers
- The Path of Native American Education: Where Tradition and Technology Meet
- By Richard Simonelli, Environmental Editor, Winds of Change
- Can Native traditions coexist with modern technology in the education
of the First Nations' children?
- In Search of Elegant Solutions
- By Maisie McAdoo
- Two New York City high schools offer a stark contrast—and pose
a hard problem—in their uses of computer technology.
- A Matter of Respect: Copyright Law and New Technologies
- By Ivan R. Bender, Attorney at Law
- Much misunderstood by educators, federal copyright law is a necessary
concern in the use of new classroom technologies.
Number 2, Summer 1993
- Strategies for Change: Partnering—Myths and Realities
- By Ray L. Steele, Director, Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ball State University
- A creator of corporate/education technology partnerships shares his
insights into this strategy for improving education.
- Strategies for Change: Apprenticeship American Style
- By Anne Lewis
- Youth apprenticeship is a strategy designed to ease the school-to-work
transition for students who don't go to college. Will it work here?
- Profile: Marva Collins, Her Way
- By Toni O'Neal Mosley
- Both praised and criticized, Marva Collins never wavers from her
back-to-basics teaching philosophy.
Number 1, Spring 1993
- TECHNOS Interview
- Jaime Escalante, Mathematics Teacher, Hiram Johnson High School
- "Teaching is touching life," says Escalante. His demanding
and unorthodox style has touched and changed the lives of many.
- Tripping the ‘Light’ Fantastic: And They're Off! The Race to Fiber Optics
- By Joan E. Lewis
- It's a horse race to the fiber-optic finish line, and the education
market is a key to its success. But what are the implications?
- Schools, Houses, and Ice Cream: The Choices We Make
- By Morton J. Marcus, Director, Indiana Business Research Center, School of Business, Indiana University
- An economist explains existing choice in American education, why
it has failed, and what we can do to change things.
Volume 1, 1992
Number 4, Winter 1992
- TECHNOS Interview
- James P. Comer, M.D., Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry and Director, School Development Program, Yale Child Study Center, Yale University
- An African proverb states, "It takes a whole village to raise
a child." It's the foundation for the Comer schools.
- Deus Machina
- By Neil Postman, Professor of Media Ecology and Chair, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University
- Technology has become "America's deity." This fable for
our time provides a provocative lesson.
- Assessment: Let's See What Our Kids Can Do
- By Eva L. Baker, Codirector, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, University of California, Los Angeles
- Testing will never be the same. New methods of assessing student
skills, based on performance, are being developed.
Number 3, Fall 1992
- Technology, Falling SAT Scores, and the Transformation of Consciousness
EdPress Award Winner - By Gerald W. Bracey, Educational Research and Policy Consultant
- Jerry Bracey says we shouldn't be surprised that SAT verbal scores
have dropped. In fact, he predicts further drops as another generation's
way of learning is transformed by technology.
- Reflections on Equity
- By Asa G. Hilliard III, Professor of Urban Education, Department of Educational Foundations, Georgia State University
- According to Asa Hilliard, the most critical equity issue is that
of negative attitudes we have about some students. With cultural understanding
and acceptance, he says, every child can succeed.
- The Slow Boat to Reform
- By Melinda Grewar
- Beyond the rhetoric, who's really responsible for reforming education?
It's the classroom teachers who are changing things, slowly but surely,
and with a great deal of hard work.
Number 2, Summer 1992
- Visions of Learning in the 21st Century
- By Marilyn W. Norris, Founder and President of 21st Century Resources, Inc.
- Imagine truly lifelong learning, all people at any time communicating
instantaneously through networks of nearly invisible glass fibers. It's
not so far off, as these futurists see it.
- Of TinkerToys, Technology, and the Educational Encounter
- By Judah L. Schwartz, Professor of Engineering Science and Education, Massacheusetts Institute of Technology, and Professor of Education and Codirector of the Educational Technology Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Half the battle of using technology in education is learning to use
it correctly. Our children need to learn how to ask questions—as
well as answer them—with classroom technologies.
Number 1, Spring 1992
- TECHNOS Interview
- Theodore R. Sizer, Professor of Education and Chair of the Coalition of Essential Schools, Brown University
- Don Quixote tilted at windmills, and Ted Sizer sometimes wonders
if he isn't doing the same. But like a true crusader, he continues the
good fight to revolutionize American schools.
- Equity and the ‘Big Picture’
- By Henry Jay Becker, Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University
- Issues of equity concerning technology in education include access to equipment and the proper training to use it.