From compliance to commitment: Technology as a catalyst for communities of learning

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 295-302

  Burns, Mary ^a  

^a Southwest Educational Development Laboratory   (United States)

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EID: 2442577715     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170208400409     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Roland Barth has used the phrase "at risk" to refer to teachers who exhibit characteristics of isolation and little interest in continued learning. See Roland Barth, "Building a Community of Learners," available at http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/families/partnering/barth.html.
2. Several teachers confided to us over the course of the two-year project that their principals - much to the teachers' initial reluctance but now gratitude - had forced them into this project.
3. The entire research report, including all data and a full description of school sites and professional development, can be accessed at www.southcentralrtec.org/resources/highered.html.
4. A full description of our professional development and the professional development materials themselves can be obtained from www.southcentralrtec.org/ alt/alt.html
5. See Judith Hamore Sandholtz, Cathy Ringstaff, and David C. Dwyer, Teaching with Technology: Creating Student-Centered Classrooms (New York: Teachers College Press, 1997).
6. See also Henry J. Becker, "Findings from the Teaching, Learning, and Computing Survey: Is Larry Cuban Right?," Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, University of California, Irvine, 2000, p. 8. This document is available at www.crito.uci.edu - click on the Papers and Publications link and search for the author's name.
7. Indeed, that school's district has officially moved to team teaching, and many of the school's ATRL project teachers have assisted other faculties in their transition to team teaching.
8. Most teachers with whom we worked had one to four computers in their classrooms. Based on interviews with teachers, four were better than one.
9. Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, Teaching as a Subversive Activity (New York: Dell, 1969), pp. 31-37.