TECHNOLOGY

Technology

Technology

Introduction

An examination of the interplay between technology and curriculum must be sensitive to alternative views of curriculum—whether curriculum is conceptualized as a defined body of content or as a set of thinking, analysis, and communication practices that characterize a field of study (Eisner, 1979). Equally important is the over-arching purpose of those seeking to link technology with curriculum—whether the goal is to improve implementation of system-sanctioned content and instruction or to fundamentally change educational practice. In this chapter I will suggest that these two dichotomies—between content and process and between status quo and radical transformation—have been around since the earliest efforts ...