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Friday, May 24, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002052401u.htm An Online Course Teaches Educators to Use Technology in the Classroom BROCK READ Most teachers are eager to incorporate technology into their courses, but fewer know how to use it "to enhance their learners' understanding, rather than as a goal in and of itself," says Martha Stone Wiske, co-director of the Educational Technology Center at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. In an online course she developed, Ms. Wiske hopes to train educators to use a wide range of technologies, but to do so with curricular goals in mind. The course, "Teaching to Standards With New Technologies," defines its students and its subject matter broadly. Ms. Wiske estimates that primary and secondary-school educators make up about half of an average class, but post-secondary teachers, corporate trainers, and software designers also enroll. And while computers and the Internet are focuses of the course, Ms. Wiske says she welcomes discussion on "whatever technologies they consider to be new to them" -- including video presentations and graphing calculators....
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