Teacher Resources: Essays on the Impact of Technology in the Classroom

Overview

The integration of technology into the classroom, particularly the Humanities classroom, is a complex topic, resulting in a myriad of policy discussions initiated by teachers and scholars alike. The essays listed below are intended to ease you into the language, the arguments, and the critiques of technology and its role in education in our humanities classrooms. While these essays are certainly not required reading, a browse now and again will give you enough credible background information to raise issues in your department's, and even your school district's, planning for the future.

Index to Essays

Randy Bass, "Can American Studies find a Whole in the Net?" American Studies in Scandinavia (Fall 1996) (Odense University Press). (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/guide/asins96.html)

Randy Bass, "A Working Synthesis of Technologies and Benefits," Engines of Inquiry: A Practical Guide for Using Technology to Teach American Culture, American Crossroads Project
(http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/conversations/synth_2.html)

Randy Bass, "Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History," Engines of Inquiry: A Practical Guide for Using Technology to Teach American Culture, American Crossroads Project. (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/guide/engines.html)

Randy Bass, "The Garden in the Machine: The Impact of American Studies on New Technologies," The American Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/garden.html)

Arthur Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann, "Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever"
(http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html)

Michael O'Malley and Roy Rosenzweig, "Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web," Journal of American History, (June 1997). (http://chnm.gmu.edu/assets/historyessays/bravenewworld.html)

Todd Oppenheimer, "The Computer Delusion," The Atlantic Monthly (July 1997): 45 - 56.
(http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jul/computer.htm)

Roy Rosenzweig, "'So, What's Next for Clio?' CD-ROM and Historians," Journal of American History, Vol. 81, No. 4 (March 1995): 1621 - 1640. (http://chnm.gmu.edu/chnm/clio.html)

Smith, Carl, "Can You Do Serious History on the Web?" Perspectives, (Feb. 1998). (http://chnm.gmu.edu/chnm/smith.html)

Turkle, Sherry, "Seeing through Computers: Education in a Culture of Simulation," The American Prospect, No. 31 (March - April 1997). (http://www.prospect.org/print/V8/31/turkle-s.html)

Resources compiled and annotated by Beth Terhune, University of Massachusetts, 5/27/99 and updated 4/01