Strauss concludes that article Why Many Facutly Members Aren't Excited about Technology, "the moral is that unless we show faculty members how technology can meet their needs, they won't consider using it."(Strauss,Howard, Why Many Facutly Members Aren't Excited about Technology). While studying what community college faculty needed to incorporate technology into their instruction, Quick and Davies found faculty needed time, money, software, classroom computers (professor podium), departmnent computer lab, and faculty technical support and training. In discussing how to prepare college faculty for the incoming 'Net-generation of students Clayton-Pedersen and O'Neill claim that "much of the learning technology innovation in higher education has been focused on K-12 teacher preparation and development" and that "more focus needs to be placed on preparing existing faculty for the future 'Net Generation students who will populate the twenty-first-century classroom." (Clayton-Pedersen, Alma; O'Neil, Nancy; Curricula Designed to Meet 21st-Century Expectations). They continue that call for action, claiming that "faculty's understanding of the teaching and learning power of technology needs to be increased" and "tools need to be developed to help faculty integrate technology into the curriculum." (Clayton-Pedersen, Alma; O'Neil, Nancy; Curricula Designed to Meet 21st-Century Expectations). Strauss, Quick and Davies, and Clayton-Pedersen and O'Neill demonstrate that faculty first need blatant introductions to the new technologies themselves: what they are and what they can do.
Friday, October 30, 2009
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When using parenthetical citations... you put the last name(s) in quotes & page numbers. You got way too much going on here. Check out this page for an example: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
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