Some Web-based Readings for Suzanne de Castell's Talks/Workshops

TLITE Aug 13-24/01

Themes

Object Lessons/Digital Learning

The Student WebQuest

http://www.iste.org/L&L/archive/vol26/no7/features/yoder/index.html

The Student WebQuest

http://www.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/ObjectLessons.html

Advances in the Philosopy of Technology: New Structural Characteristics of Technologies

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v4_n1html/LENK.html

Information and Knowledge On-line: Teaching and Learning in the Communication Age

http://jac.sbs.ohio-state.edu/co850su99/fisherlecture.htm

 

Teachers as "Luddites"/Cultural Ecology of the Classroom

As Educators Rush to Embrace Technology, a Coterie of Skeptics Seeks to Be Heard

http://chronicle.com/colloquy/98/skeptics/background.htm

Technology Refusal and the Organizational Culture of Schools

http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/FAS/Bromley/classes/intro/readings/Hodas.htm

Imaging Teachers as Luddites In/Deed

http://www.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/gentech//Luddites.html

 

Technology and Equity

Study Shows Disparity in Schools' Internet Access

http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/FAS/Bromley/classes/Internet/readings/NYT_disparity.htm

The Digital Divide

http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/

GenTech

http://www.shecan.com

 

Critical WWWeb Literacy

Faulty Filters: How Content Filters Block Access to Kid-Friendly Information on the Internet

http://www2.epic.org/reports/filter_report.html

Evaluating Internet Research Sources

http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

Schools Split on Using Internet Fileters

htt://www.gse.buffalo.edu/FAS/Bromley/classes/intro/readings/NYT_filters.htm

 

Collaborative Learning/Distributed Learning

The World Watcher Project

http://www.worldwatcher.northwestern.edu/research.htm

Terms of Reference

http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/dls/termsref.html

RUnderstanding Students' Experiences of Collaborative Networked Learning

http://collaborate.shef.ac.uk/nlpapers/C.R.Jones1.htm

 

Gaming and Play

Cyborg Babies and Cy-Dough-Plasm: Ideas about Self and Life in the Culture of Simulation

http://www.mit.edu/people/sturkle/cyborg_babies.html

Computer Clubhouses in the Inner City

http://www.prospect.org/print/V7/27/resnick-m.html

 

Educative/Pedagogic Interactivity