Morning session : Introductions by the Workshop participants and a review of the week's themes, goals and agenda. We'll also review the resources and projects linked to the Workshop web site, and discuss the week's readings (which will be handed out at this session).
Afternoon session : Values, Teaching and Technology. To begin the week's topic-centered discussions and activities, we will raise questions about the character of exemplary educative experiences and the evaluation of the educational worth of electronically-mediated educational experiences and activities. We will look at a variety of examples of educational technology, drawn from educational software, project-based learning using networked computers and using the Web, as well as virtual environments for synchronous and asynchronous communication, and develop the foundation for a critical framework for discussing and evaluating technologies used for educational purposes.
Morning session : Faculty Development and the Successful Integration of Technology in Teaching. We'll discuss the changing expectations of teachers and teaching that have come with the proliferation of multimedia and networked computers, and review some successful and perhaps not so successful models for teaching with the new technologies. We'll also discuss issues raised by different models of professional development for teachers concerned with the the principled and innovative use of new technologies.
Afternoon session: Lab #1. In the first of two laboratory sessions devoted to improving participants' familiarity and facility with computer-based tools for education, and the production and assessment of electronic curriculum, we'll address the specific technical questions raised in the pre-Workshop questionnaire, and begin working individually and/or in small groups to create and/or evaluate computer-based curricular modules and programs.
Morning session: Tele-learning and the Transformation of Teaching and Learning. In this session, we'll discuss the ways that networked computers have changed and will continue to change the landscape of higher education in the US. Special attention will be paid to the future of "discussion" and other modes of student- teacher communication, as well as the ways that new spatial and temporal demands on teachers and students can be managed successfully when traditional spatial and temporal constraints on formal education are no longer the norm.
Afternoon session: Isolation, Access, Connectivity, Community. In this session we'll raise and discuss questions derived from the philosophy of education as well as the philosophy and sociology of technology, about the individual and social possibilities and perils of an educational environment in which physical proximity and local community compete with "distance education" and "virtual communities" in constituting students (and thus citizens) fundamental experiences of learning and teaching.
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Morning session: Toward Digital Portfolios for Students, Faculty and Pre-Service Teachers. Beginning with examples, and an analysis of the pros and cons of using portfolios as tools for assessment, engagement and exhibition, we'll discuss the techniques, advantages and disadvantages of developing digital portfolios in a variety of classroom and in-service contexts.
Afternoon session: Lab #2. We'll continue the work begun in the first laboratory, completing "working drafts" of assessment and/or production projects.
Morning session: Participants' presentations. This session will be devoted to talks and exhibitions by participants, either individually or in small groups, based on the work they've done during the laboratory sessions. This is an opportunity not only for exhibition but brain-storming about and planning future work.
Afternoon session: Old and New Views of electronically-mediated classrooms and curricula. Placing current technologies and projects in historical context, we'll discuss visions of computers in education in the earliest days of the personal computer and compare them with our ideas today, sharing insights from the week's sessions and revising the structure and contents of the Workshop web site accordingly.
© 2001 Roger B. Blumberg