Brandman University Course  EDUU 451/551:
Educational Applications of Computers

Links

On-line Articles of Significance (For article reviews)

10 Lessons Every Educator Should Know About Technology in the Classroom by Educational Testing Service

2020 Visions for the Future of Education by David Thornburg

Campfires in Cyberspace: Primordial Metaphors for Learning in the 21st Century by David Thornburg

Conducting Research Surveys via E-mail and the Web by Matthias Schonlau, Ronald D. Fricker, Jr., Marc N. Elliott (2001)

Connect, Compute, and Compete: The Report of the California Education Technology Task Force. (1996)
[If the Department of Education link does not work, click here for a local copy]

Does It Compute? The Relationship between Educational Technology and Student Achievement in Mathematics.  by H. Wenglinsky.

Does This Stuff Work?  Some Findings from Applications of Technology to Education and Training. by J. D. Fletcher

How to Succeed in the Information Age by Ray Strackbein

Report to the President on the Use of Technology to Strengthen K-12 Education in the United States (1997)
[If the Department of Education link does not work, click here for a local copy]

Reinventing Assessment: Speculations Upon the Future of Large-Scale Educational Testing by Randy Elliot Bennett

Technology as Cognitive Tools: Learners as Designers by David H. Jonassen

The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead by James A. Dewar

The No Significant Difference Phenomenon by Thomas Russell

The Postmodern Paradigm by Brent G. Wilson

Welcome to the Communications Age by David Thornburg

 

Seminal Papers in Computing History

On Computable Numbers by Alan Turing (May 1936)

The Computer as von Neumann Planned It (as substitute for von Neumann's unavailable "First Draft" first published in June 1945) by M.D. Godfrey and D. F. Hendry

As We May Think by Vannevar Bush (July 1945)

The Computers of Tomorrow by Martin Greenberger (May 1964)

Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits by Gordon Moore (April 1965)

 

Useful Resources

Subscribe to T.H.E. Journal on-line

California Subject Matter Standards

California Learning Resource Network (CLRN)

California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP2) for Teachers