Articles to Read for EDSC 215

Joyce L. Morris, Instructor,

Fall 1997

Articles written in black will be distributed in class. Read article prior to the date listed below. Discussion begins on the date listed. During (*) days the discussions occur through e-mail.

Due Date

article

Computers:the good, the bad, and the fantastic

September 25

Leonard, F. (1992, May). The End of School. Atlantic Monthly, pp, 24, 26, 28, 32.

October 2

Mehlinger, H.D. (1996, Feb.) School Reform in the Information Age. Phi Delta Kappan. pp. 400-407.

October 9*

Oppenheimer, Todd (July. 1997) The Computer Delusion.

Literacy or Letteracy

October 16*

Barnes, S. (1996) Literacy skills in the Age of Graphical Interfaces & New Media, IPCT. vol 4, number 3-4, pp. 7-26.

Niederhauser, D.S (1996): Information Age Literacy: Preparing Educators for the 21st Century.

October 23*

Papert, S.(1993) Obsolete Skill Set: The 3 R's

Rogers,A.(1994) Global Literacy in a Guttenberg Culture

Information vs. knowledge

October 30*

McCluskey, L. (1994, March) Gresham's Law, technology, and education. Phi Delta Kappan. pp. 550-552.

McKenzie, J. (1993) Grazing the Net:Raising a generation of free range students

Tally B. & Brunner, C The New Literacy of the Net: judging the quality of information in an unfiltered medium

Nov 13*

Reil, M. (Winter, 1996) The Internet: A Land To Settle Rather Than An Ocean To Surf And A New "Place" For School Reform through Community Development.

Kay, A. (1996, August) Revealing the Elephant: The use and misuse of computers in education. Educom Review

Technology and Gender Equity

Nov 20*

Bruner, C. (1997) Opening technology to girls

Tarlin, E. (1995, July/August) Computers in the classroom: where are all the girls? The Harvard Education Letter. pp. 7-8.

Tanaka, J. (October 28,1996) No Boys Allowed. Newsweek

Where do we Go from Here?

December 4

Hickox,K. (1997) Trends Your Job Depends On


Department of Education, (June 1996) Benefits of Technology Use from Getting America's Students Ready for the 21st Century:Meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge

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