College of Education

University of Washington

 

EDC&I 510

History of Educational Technology

 

SUGGESTED READINGS

 

 

History of Educational Technology

Cuban, L.  (1986).  Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology since 1920.  New York: Teachers College Press.

 

Eisenstein, E.  (1979).  The printing press as an agent of change.  Two vols.  New York: Cambridge.

 

Saettler, L. P.  (2005).  The evolution of American educational technology.  Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates.

 

Standage, T.  (1998).  The Victorian Internet: the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers.  New York: Walker and Co..

 

 

Reviews and Summaries (Research and Practice)

Bransford, J., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R.  (1999).  How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school.  Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

 

Clark, R. C., & Mayer, R. E.  (2003).  E-Learning and the science of instruction.  San Francisco: Pfeiffer/Wiley.

 

Clark, R.E., & Salomon, G.  (1986).  Media in teaching.  In M.C. Wittrock (Ed.), Handbook of research on teaching.  3rd edition.  New York: Macmillan, 464-478.

 

Clark, R. E.  (2001).  Learning from media: Arguments, analysis, and evidence.  Greenwich, CT: Information Age Pub.

 

Gagne, R. M.  (Ed.)  (1987).   Educational technology: Foundations.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

Jonassen, David  (Ed.)  (1996).  Handbook of research for educational communications and technology.  New York:  AECT/Macmillan.

 

Kerr, S. T.  (1996). (Ed.), Technology and the future of schooling.  95th NSSE Yearbook, Part II.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

 

Lumsdaine, A.A.  (1963).  Instruments and media of instruction.  In N.L. Gage (Ed.), Handbook of research on teaching.  Chicago: Rand McNally, 583-682.

 

Mayer, R. E.  (Ed. )  (2005).  The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 

Sawyer, R. K.  (Ed.)  (2006).  The Cambridge handbook of the learning sciences.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 

Spector, J. M. et al.  (2008).  Handbook of research on educational communications and technology.  New York: Routledge.

 

Wetzel, C. D., Radtke, P. H., & Stern, H. W.  (1994).  Instructional effectiveness of video media.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

 

Theory and Research

Barab, S., Schatz, S. & Scheckler, R.  (2004).  Using Activity Theory to conceptualize online community and using online community to conceptualize activity theory.  Mind, Culture, and Activity, 11(1), 25–47.

 

Bolter, J. D., & Grusin, R.  (1999).  Remediation: Understanding new media.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Brown, J. S., & Duguid, P.  (2000).  The social life of information.  Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press.

 

Choi, J-I., & Hannafin, M.  (1995).  Situated cognition and learning environments: Roles, structures, and implications for design.  Educational Technology Research and Development, 43(2), 53-69.

 

Cronbach, L., & Snow, R.  (1981).   Aptitudes and instructional methods.  Second ed.  New York: Wiley.

 

Dede, C.  (2004).  If Design-Based Research is the answer, what is the question? A commentary on Collins, Joseph, and Bielaczyc; diSessa and Cobb; and Fishman, Marx, Blumenthal, Krajcik, and Soloway in the JLS Special Issue on Design-Based Research.  The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(1), 105–114.

 

De Zengotita, T.  (2005).  Mediated: How the media shapes your world and the way you live in it.  New York: Bloomsbury.

 

Hartley, J.  (Ed.)  (1992).  Technology and writing: Readings in the psychology of written communication.  London: Kingsley.

 

Meyrowitz, J.  (1985).  No sense of place: The impact of electronic media on social behavior.  New York: Oxford.

 

Jenkins, H.  (2006).  Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide.  New York: New York University Press.

 

Norman, D. A.  (1998).  The design of everyday things.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Olson, D. R.  (1994).  The world on paper: The conceptual and cognitive implications of writing and reading. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 

Ong, W.  (1982).  Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word.  New York: Methuen.

 

Oostendorp, H. v.  (2003).  Cognition in a digital world. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Reigeluth, C. (Ed.)  (1983).   Instructional design theories and models: An overview of their current status.  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 

 

Salomon, G.  (Ed.)  (1993).  Distributed cognitions: Psychological and educational considerations.  New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

 

Salomon, G.  (1994).  Interaction of media, cognition, and learning.  (Revised ed.)  Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates.

 

Schank, R. C., & Cleary, C.  (1995).  Engines for education. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Skinner, B. F.  (1968).  The technology of teaching.  New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

 

Skinner, B. F.  (1953).  Science and human behavior.  New York:  Macmillan.

 

Sternberg, R. J., & Preiss, D.  (2005).  Intelligence and technology: The impact of tools on the nature and development of human abilities.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

 

Hardware/Software Technologies

Chu, G., & Schramm, W.  (1968/1976).   Learning from television.  Washington, DC: National Association of Educational Broadcasters.

 

Dwyer, F.  (1978).   Strategies for improving visual learning.  State College, Pa.:  Learning Services.

 

Fischer, F., & Mandl, H.  (2005).  Knowledge convergence in computer-supported collaborative learning: The role of external representation tools.  The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 14(3), 405–441

 

Fleming, M., & Levie, W. H. (Eds.) (1993).  Instructional message design:  Principles from the behavioral and cognitive sciences.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

 

Gee, J. P.  (2007).  Good video games + good learning: Collected essays on video games, learning, and literacy.  New York: P. Lang.

 

Gross, T., Stary, C., & Totter, A.  (2005).  User-centered awareness in computer-supported cooperative work-systems: Structured embedding of findings from social sciences.  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 18(3), 323–360

 

Hoban, C., & van Ormer, E.  (1951).  Instructional film research, 1918-1950.  Technical Report No. SDC-269-7-19.  State College, PA: Instructional Film Research Program.

 

Jonassen, D.  (Ed.)  (1982).  The technology of text: Principles for structuring, designing, and displaying text.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

 

Lipartito, K.  (2003).  Picturephone and the information age:  The social meaning of failure.  Technology and Culture, 44, 50-81

 

Markle, S.  (1969).   Good frames and bad.  2nd ed.  New York: Wiley.

 

May, A., & Lumsdaine, A.  (1958).   Learning from films.  New Haven: Yale.

 

Moore, M. G.  (2007).  Handbook of distance education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Office of Technology Assessment.  (1988).  Power on!  New tools for teaching and learning.  Report No. OTA-SET-379.  Washington, DC: USGPO.

 

Palmer, E. L.  (1988).  Television and America's children: A crisis of neglect.  New York: Oxford.

 

Perkins, D. N.  (Ed.)  (1995).  Software goes to school:  Teaching for understanding with new technologies.  New York: Oxford.

 

Petroski, H.  (1990).  The pencil: A history of design and circumstance.  New York: Knopf.

 

Proctor, R. W., & Vu, K-P. L.  (Eds).  (2005).  Handbook of human factors in web design.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Rouet, J-F., et al. (Eds.)  (1996).  Hypertext and cognition.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

Tufte, E. R.  (1983).  The visual display of quantitative information.  Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

 

Tufte, E. R.  (2006).  Beautiful evidence. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

 

Turkle, S.  (2007).  Evocative objects: Things we think with.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

 

Instructional Design / Instructional Systems Development

Association for Educational Communication and Technology.  (1977).  The definition of educational technology.  Washington, DC: Author.

 

Gagne, R.  (1977).   The conditions of learning.  3rd ed.  New York: Holt.

 

Gilbert, T.F.  (1978).   Human competence: Engineering worthy performance.  New York: McGraw-Hill.

 

Hooper, R.  (Ed.)  (1971).  The curriculum: Context, design and development (Readings for the course team at the Open University).  Edinburgh:  Oliver and Boyd/Open University Press.

 

Jonassen, D., Hannum, W., & Tessmer, M.  (1989).  Handbook of task analysis procedures.  New York: Praeger.

 

Laurel, B.  (2003).  Design research: Methods and perspectives. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Mager, R.  (1975).   Preparing objectives for instruction.  Second ed.  Belmont, Calif.: Fearon.

 

Nielsen, J.  (2000).  Designing web usability.  Indianapolis, IN: New Riders.

 

Norman, D. A.  (2004).  Emotional design: Why we love (or hate) everyday things. New York: Basic Books.

 

Richey, R.  (1986).   The theoretical and conceptual bases of instructional design.  New York: Kogan Page.

 

Romiszowski, A.  (1981).   Designing instructional systems: Decision making in course planning and curriculum design.  New York: Nichols.

 

Silber, K., et al.  (1972, October).  The field of educational technology: A statement of definition.  Audio-visual Instruction.

 

Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J.  (2005).  Understanding by design.  Second (expanded) ed.  Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).

 

 

Arguments and Critiques of the Field

Clark, R.E.  (1983).  Reconsidering research on learning from media.  Review of Educational Research, 53(4), 445-459.

 

Cuban, L.  (2001).  Oversold and underused: Computers in the classroom.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard.

 

Duffy, T. M., & Jonassen, D. H.  (Eds.)  (1992).  Constructivism and the technology of instruction: A conversation.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Heinich, R.  (1984).  The proper study of educational technology.  Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 32(2), 67-87.

 

Heinich, R.  (1985).  Instructional technology and the structure of education.  Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 33(1), 9-15.

 

Hooper, R.   (1969).  A diagnosis of failure.  AV Communication Review, 17(3), 245-264.

 

Noble, D. F.  (2001).  Digital diploma mills: The automation of higher education.  New York: Monthly Review Press.

 

Nunan, T.  (1983).  Countering educational design.  New York: Nichols.

 

Oppenheimer, T.  (2003).  The flickering mind: The false promise of technology in the classroom, and how learning can be saved.  New York: Random House.

 

Perelman, L.  (1992).  School's out: Hyperlearning, the new technology, and the end of education.  New York: William Morrow.

 

 

Critiques, Explorations, and Alternative Visions of the Field

Apple, M.  (1986).  Teachers and texts:  A political economy of class and gender relations in education.  New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

 

Damarin, S. K.  (1991).  Feminist unthinking and educational technology.  Educational and Training Technology International, 28(2), 111-119..

 

Ellsworth, E. A., & Whatley, M. H.  (1990).  The ideology of images in educational media: Hidden curriculums in the classroom.  New York: Teachers College Press.

 

Fishman, B., Marx, R. W., Blumenfeld, P., Krajcik, J., & Soloway, E.  (2004).  Creating a framework for research on systemic technology innovations.  The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(1), 43–76

 

Goldfarb, B.  (2002).  Visual pedagogy: Media cultures in and beyond the classroom.  Durham: Duke University Press.

 

Hlynka, D., & Belland, J. C.  (Eds.)  (1991).  Paradigms regained: The uses of illuminative, semiotic and post-modern criticism as modes of inquiry in educational technology.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

 

Kerr, S. T.  (1990).  Technology : Education :: Justice : Care.  Educational Technology, 30(11), 7-12.

 

McLuhan, M.  (1964).  Understanding media.  New York: McGraw-Hill.

 

Noble, D.  (1991).  The classroom arsenal: Military research, information technology, and public education.  New York: Falmer.

 

Noble, D. F.  (1998).  The religion of technology:  The divinity of man and the spirit of invention.  New York:  Knopf.

 

Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress.  (1995).  Teachers & technology: Making the connection.  Washington, DC:  Author.

 

Spring, J. H.  (1992).  Images of American life: A history of ideological management in schools, movies, radio, and television.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

 

 

Policy and the Social Context of the Field

Cohen, D. K.  (1987).  Educational technology, policy, and practice.  Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 9(2), 153-170.     

 

Kerr, S.  (1989).  Teachers, technology, and the search for school reform.  Educational Technology Research and Development, 37(4), 5-17.

 

Mumford, L.  (1963).  Technics and civilization.  New York:  Harcourt Brace.

 

Pea, R. D.  (2004).  The social and technological dimensions of scaffolding and related theoretical concepts for learning, education, and human activity.  The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(3), 423–451

 

Postman, N.  (1992).  Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology.  New York: Knopf.

 

Winner, L.  (1986).  The whale and the reactor: A search for limits in an age of high technology.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Sandholz, J., Ringstaff, C., & Dwyer, D. C.  (1996).  Teaching with technology:  Creating student-centered classrooms.  New York:  Teachers College Press.

 

Schofield, J.  (1995).  Computers and classroom culture.  New York:  Cambridge University Press.

 

Shapiro, A.  (1999).  The control revolution.  New York:  Century/Public Affairs.

 

Zuboff, S.  (1988).  In the age of the smart machine: The future of work and power.  New York: Basic Books.