Title: HEALING THE TECHNO-DIVIDE
Co-chairs: Peter Concannon and Clay Smith
On campuses and at conventions, the debate over “computers in the classroom”
rages. Polarization most often characterizes this debate, pitting
technophiles against technophobes and theory against practicum. Such
contention results from a variety of factors, but is counterproductive to the
needs of students and teachers who inhabit increasingly digitized classrooms.
What everyone needs is a dialogic exchange free of diatribe.
“Healing the Techno-divide” proposes to do just that: facilitate a dialogue
focused on mutual exchange between apparently divergent positions. This
seminar allows presenters and audiences to enter into a more productive
dialogue about the “real” effects of “computers in the classroom.” This
seminar provides a space within which dialogue between apparently opposite
sides can occur. Here, presenters can examine the quantitative and
qualitative effects of digital technology on a wide range of subjects, from
retention to student-centered learning. By so focusing the debate over
digitized teaching and learning, this seminar creates a bridge which can begin
to heal the division that prevents our realizations of “computers in the
classroom.
Papers, then, can encompass any aspect of digitized technology or culture and
its effects on and promise for teaching and learning. Papers should not focus
exclusively on demonstrating applications of technology (e.g. methods for
creating effective PowerPoint slide shows) but should demonstrate the
consequences of technology in the classroom. Topics may include, but are not
limited to, the following categories:
· effects of computerized introductory classes on retention
· assessments of on-line classes for successful student-centered learning
· coordination between high school and college technologies to facilitate
college success
· integration of computerized teaching in ESL classrooms
· correlations between computerized courses student success
Please send your 250-500 word abstract by 31 March 2004 to: Clay Smith, Santa
Fe Community College, at clay.smith@sfcc.edu.
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