Education - Week of November 18, 1996

Schedule

• Monday. Bring 2 copies of draft term paper to class. Discussion of readings
• Wednesday. Prof. Randy Bass, Department of English

Required Reading

1. Lowell Monke, Computers in Education: The Web and the Plow
2. Matti Hamalainen, Andrew B. Whinston, and Svetlana Vishik, Electronic Markets for Learning: Education Brokerages on the Internet, Comm. ACM, Vol. 39, No. 7, July 1996, pp. 51-58. (on reserve in Reiss 3rd floor library)
3. Fostering the Use of Educational Technology: Elements of a National Strategy
4. "Did anybody learn anything?" Assessing Technology Programs and the Learning Accomplished

Recommended Reading

1. Neil Postman, Are We Informing Ourselves to Death?

Questions

1. What are the key claims in the readings?
2. In what ways might information technology facilitate learning ? Is it domain/subject dependent?
3. In what ways might information technology detract from learning?
4. How has the effectiveness of information technology on learning been measured?
5. In what ways could use of information technology improve your courses at Georgetown?
6. What is the concept of an education brokerage on the Internet? What are its potential benefits and pitfalls?