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The HT&T96 Program
Saturday, November 16th
- 9:30-10:00 a.m.:
- Registration and Coffee
- 10:00-11:50 a.m.:
- Introduction (Roger Blumberg,
STG)
Models I: Integrating Technology and Teaching
In this session, we hear from two teachers who have
successfully used free-standing and networked technologies to
expand and enrich the classroom. Although the Rosendale primary
school students' use of photography, and multimedia applications,
to compose personal narratives might at first seem unrelated to
Bonefas' college students' use of the Web and MOO technologies in
their studies of Greek Antiquity, in fact the case studies of
Sinker and Bonefas both demonstrate how the technologies:
facilitate explorations and activities that were not possible in
the traditional classroom; encourage creative and collaborative
practices that have long been thought desirable but have lacked
compelling motivation in the traditional classroom; and provide the
teacher with opportunities to multiply the number and kinds of
"spaces" for teaching and learning.
- 12:00-1:00 p.m.:
- Lunch and Informal Discussions
- 1:15-3:15 p.m.:
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Models II: Distributed Curriculum and Advanced Resources
This session focuses on the World Wide Web as a means
of curriculum development and delivery. For several years, Curtis
has been transforming the electronic mathematics "book", and has
provided clear, remarkable examples of how rich, interactive and
"automated" texts can be developed for delivery on the Web. At a
different level of organization and development, Foote has shown
how a distributed curriculum can transform and
substantially improve education within a discipline. What becomes
clear from both presentations, in addition to the innovations of
both Curtis and Foote, is that networked computing technology will
be an important, and perhaps necessary, engine for transforming
curriculum and pedagogy in the future.
- 3:30-5:30 p.m.:
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The Study of Teaching with Technology
Questions concerning the evaluation of student behavior
and performance, in programs and classroom activities designed
around the use of particular technologies, is the focus of this
session. Unlike the evaluation of a new approach to teaching
algebra in high school, or a new method for teaching English as a
second language, the evaluation of students' use of powerful
technologies like the Internet raises difficult questions, not only
about how to interpret assessment data, but about what should count
as reliable, accurate and valid assessment data in such a setting.
Both Fishman and Spielvogel have been deeply involved with the
design and evaluation of both free-standing and networked
educational technologies, as well as in the development of
assessment tools, and their presentations make clear both the
importance and the difficulty of assessing student achievement in
classrooms and schools that have successfully integrated technology
and teaching.
- 6:00-8:00 p.m.:
- Dinner
- 8:30-11:00 p.m.:
- Demonstrations and informal discussions at STG
Sunday, November 17th
- 9:00-10:00:
- Coffee and discussion
- 10:00-11:50:
- Lessons from Day 1 (Roger
Blumberg, STG)
Teaching with Technology: K-12 Studies
In this session, we focus on K-12 success stories in
two schools with rather different student constituencies and
technology resources: The Dalton School and The Murry Bertraum High
School for Business Careers, both in New York City. Yet Nellen's
use of the Internet and the Web in teaching English to high school
students, and Goldberg's use of the remarkable hypermedia program
Archaeotype, to teach sixth graders about the ancient
world, reveal how technologies can transform teaching and learning
in classrooms, and the classrooms themselves, transcending grade
levels, demographics and content areas. Furthermore, the
experiences of Nellen and Goldberg reveal how powerful an impact
the technologies can have on student intellectual development and
performance.
- 12:00-2:00:
- Lunch, wrap-up, and planning future communications.
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