Constructivism, Technology, and the Future of Classroom Learning

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9730229
AutoresErik F Strommen (Sesame Workshop), Erik Strommen (Sesame Workshop, autor correspondente), Bruce Lincoln (Bank Street College of Education)
Ano1992
Volume24
Fascículo4
Páginas466-476
Data de publicação1992-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducation and Urban Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0013124592024004004
OpenAlexW2104282247
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas8

In order to develop our view of the revolution that technology is creating in education, it is helpful to briefly consider how technology has revolutionized American culture, and how it has left our educators rushing to catch up. In barely 20 years, electronic technology has dramatically penetrated into every area of society, and every aspect of our social and cultural lives. Television was the initiator. Broadcast images inaugurated a new, immediate, and powerful way of experiencing ideas and events. Television rediscovered and recast the world as a direct experience, and liberated it from the confines of text and static illustrations. It became possible for events a world away to appear in our homes, with all their intensity and vividness intact. Computers made it possible for vast amounts of information, from airline reservations to the contents of encyclopedias, to be made instantly available and modified with a keystroke. Writing became a matter of screens and printers, and text became permanently flexible, always ready to be instantly changed. The very nature of work changed

Constructivism (international relations · Educational technology · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Education and Technology Integration · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods · Online and Blended Learning · Psychology