College of Education

University of Washington

EDC&I 585

Technology and the Culture of Education

READING LIST

 

1. Educational Technology: The History and Theoretical Heritage

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

Clark, R.E. (1985). Evidence for confounding in computer-based instruction studies: Analyzing the meta-analyses. Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 33(4), 249-262.

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.

Heinich, R. (1984). The proper study of instructional 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.

Jonassen, D. (Ed.) (1996). Handbook for research on educational communications and technology. New York: Macmillan.

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

Olson, David R. (Ed.) (1974). Media and symbols: The forms of expression, communication, and education. 73rd NSSE Yearbook, Part I. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

2. Technology and the Social Organization of Schools

Bowers, C. A. (1988). The cultural dimensions of educational computing: Understanding the non-neutrality of technology. New York: Teachers College Press.

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

Cuban, L. (1990, January). Reforming again, again, and again. Educational Researcher, pp. 3-13.

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

Olson, John. (1988). Schoolworlds/Microworlds: Computers and the culture of the classroom. New York: Pergamon.

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

 

3. Teachers, Students, Classrooms, Technology

Becker, H. J. (1994). How exemplary computer-using teachers differ from other teachers: Implications for realizing the potential of computers in schools. Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 26(3), 291-321.

Cuban, L. (1993). Computers meet classroom: Classroom wins. Teachers College Record, 95(2), 185-210.

Feiman-Nemser, S., & Floden, R. E. (1986). The cultures of teaching. In M. E. Wittrock (Ed.), Handbook of research on teaching (pp. 505-526). (Third edition). New York: Macmillan.

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

U. S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. (1995). Teachers and technology: Making the connection. Report number OTA-EHR-616. Washington, DC: USGPO.

 

4. Computers and Society

Minsky, M. L. (1986). The society of mind. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Norman, D. (1992). Turn signals are the facial expressions of automobiles. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Nyce, J., & Kahn, P. (Eds.) (1991). From memex to hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the mind's machine. Boston: Academic Press.

Pool, I. de S. (1983). Technologies of freedom. Cambridge: Harvard.

Rothenberg, David. (1993). Hand's end: Technology and the limits of nature. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Street, J. (1992). Politics and technology. New York: Guilford.

Weizenbaum, J. (1976). Computer power and human reason. New York: W. H. Freeman.

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

 

5. Technology, Media, and Public Consciousness

Bolter, J. D. (1991). The writing space: The computer, hypertext, and the history of writing. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates.

De Vaney, Ann. (Ed.) (1994). Watching Channel One: The convergence of students, technology, and private business. Albany: State University of New York Press.

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

Ellsworth, E., & Whatley, M. (1990). Ideology of images in educational media. New York: Teachers College Press.

Kerr, S. T. (1990). Alternative technologies as textbooks and the social imperatives of educational change. In D.L. Elliott & A. Woodward (Eds.), Textbooks and schooling in the United States. 89th NSSE Yearbook. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Marvin, Carolyn. (1988). When old technologies were new: Thinking about electric communication in the late nineteenth century. New York: Oxford.

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

McLuhan, H. M. (1964). Understanding media. New York:

McLuhan, M. (1962). The Gutenberg galaxy: The making of typographic man. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

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

Mitchell, W. J. (1995). City of bits: Space, place and the infobahn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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

Olson, D. (1994). The world on paper. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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

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

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

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

Turkle, S. (1984). The second self. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.

 

6. New Perspectives

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.

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

Hooper, R. (1990). Computers and sacred cows. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 6(1), 2-13.

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

Negroponte, N. (1995). Being digital. New York: Knopf.

Norman, D. (1988). The psychology of everyday things. New York: Basic Books.

Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas. New York: Basic Books.

Persell, C. H., & Cookson, P. W., Jr. (1987). Microcomputers and elite boarding schools: Educational innovation and social reproduction. Sociology of Education, 60(2), 123-134.

Salomon, G. (1984). TV is "easy" and print is "tough": The differential investment of mental effort in learning as a function of perceptions and attributions. Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 647-658.

Tufte, E. (1984). The visual display of quantitative information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Tufte, E. (1990). Envisioning information. Cheshire, CT (P.O. Box 430, Cheshire 06410): Graphics Press.

Wurman, R. S. (1989). Information anxiety. New York: Doubleday.

 

 

7. The Neo-Luddites

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

Birkerts, S. (1994). The Gutenberg elegies: The fate of reading in an electronic age. Boston: Faber & Faber.

Birkerts, S. (1996). Tolstoy's dictaphone: Technology and the muse. St. Paul, MN: Grey Wolf Forum.

Gandy, O. H., Jr. (1993). The panoptic sort: A political economy of personal information. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Lanham, R. A. (1993). The electronic word: Democracy, technology and the arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

McKibben, B. (1992). The age of missing information. New York: Random House.

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

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

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

Roszak, T. (1994). The cult of information: A neo-Luddite treatise on high-tech, artificial intelligence, and the true art of thinking. (2nd ed.) Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Sloan, D. (Ed.) (1985). The Computer in education: A critical perspective. New York: Teachers College Press.

Slouka, M. (1995). War of the worlds: Cyberspace and the high-tech assault on reality. New York: Basic Books.

Winner, L. (1986). "Do artifacts have politics?," in L. Winner (Ed.), The whale and the reactor: A search for limits in an age of high technology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.