These are people who either love or are scared of technology respectively.
What are technophiles and technophobes?
100
In contemporary theory, the analytic movement has "shifted from explicit knowledge and social structures to '________ as embodied, materially mediated arrays of human activity centrally organized around shared practical understanding'."
What is the "practice turn"?
100
The widespread belief that computers, the Internet, and new digital technologies will solve all problems in education.
What is the "computer as panacea" perspective?
100
This 70 year old film is a reminder that our keen interest and anxiety about technology has a long history.
What is the Metropolis?
100
This theoretical approach is frequently characterized by the the acquisition metaphor.
What is a cognitive approach?
200
Originally from the Greeks, this term was coined more recently by Marx to argue for a unity of theory and practice.
What is praxis?
200
Rather than offering causal descriptions, the study of practice is better suited to address finer _____ of how observed pattern of interaction unfold over time.
What are "explanations"?
200
This is the second way in which technology issues can be misframed and can be summarized as the old joke goes, "if you give a kid a hammer, they will see everything as needing hammering."
What is "the computer as tool" perspective?
200
Thinking about technology in this way prepares us to think about particular tasks people can accomplish with technology.
What is a tool?
200
This theoretical approach is frequently characterized by a participation metaphor.
What is a sociocultural approach?
300
This is the French term that is the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency in every field of human activity.
What is "technique"?
300
The Stahl and Hesse article on the description of practice in CSCL is an example of this theoretical approach.
What is an example of a "sociocultural approach"?
300
This mindset is characterized by understanding the complexity and interdependencies of multiple consequences of adopting new technologies as well as the inherent limitations of human foresight and planning.
What is the posttechnocratic view of IT?
300
People who see technology in this way, see themselves caught up inside it.
What is techology as a "system"?
300
Tool, text, system, ecosystem are all examples of this.
What are metaphors for describing, analyzing, and designing new technologies?
400
This describes how an individual or a groups sees and make use of artifacts as a function of their embodied, lifelong experiences in the world.
What is "interaction potential"?
400
This community is concerned with designing effective tools for collaboration as well as identifying specific educational and professional practices.
What is CSCL? (CSCL = Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
400
This is a sensible, level-headed approach to technology that weighs the costs and benefits.
What is the "computer as nonneutral tool" perspective?
400
People who understand technology as a form of communication and a carrier of meaning that may be reinterpreted as the technology passes through different social situations see it in this way.
What is technology as a "text"?
400
This is defined as a system of people, practices, values, and technologies in a local environment. Hospitals and Libraries are good examples.
What is an "information ecology"?
500
This methodology takes advantage of iterative experiments to test and refine educational designs based on principles derived from theory.
What is "design-based research"?
500
Online practitioners are often hopeful that these technologies will support progressive knowledge building or critical inquiry but more often than not research has shown that these fail to engage students in scholarly argumentation.
What are threaded discussion boards?
500
This problem is characterized by the following quote: "Given the nature of how information is stored, searched, and retrieved with hypertechnologies, the practice of _________ tears holes in the fabric of knowledge and understanding."
What is the problem of "censoring information"?
500
This metaphor includes the local differences, while still capturing the strong interrelationships among the social, economic, and political contexts in which technology is invented and used.
What is the "ecological" metaphor?
500
This metaphor emphasizes the human as an active reader.