Constructivism, Technology, and the Future of Classroom Learning

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9730229
AutoresErik F Strommen (Sesame Workshop), Erik Strommen (Sesame Workshop, autor de correspondencia), Bruce Lincoln (Bank Street College of Education)
Año1992
Volumen24
Número4
Páginas466-476
Fecha de publicación1992-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEducation and Urban Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0013124592024004004
OpenAlexW2104282247
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias 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