McNeil Technology Integration with Curriculum Orientations

McNeil, J. D. (2006). Contemporary curriculum in thought and action. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Aperture Chapter 6: How Technology is Used with Curriculum Orientations

• Technology in Humanistic Classrooms
• Social Reconstruction and Technology
  • “Technology is also used in a very different way raising social consciousness. Technology itself may be the focus of study making the familiar unfamiliar (p. 141).”
• Technology in a Systemic Curriculum
• “Technology has long been viewed as important for both its efficiency and its effectiveness (p. 142).”
• “Its (textbook’s) coverage of specific topics and its explanations constitute a manifest curriculum (p. 142).”
• “Technology is seen as an efficient way to achieve both the goal of knowledge acquisition and the proof of conceptual understanding (p. 142).”
• “In the twenty-first century, the teacher in the systemic classroom is expected to use technology more dynamically… (p. 142).”
• “…systemic teachers may turn to technology as a means to introduce authentic problems designed to stimulate learners to seek official knowledge that could help in finding a solution to the problem (p. 143).”
• “Technology has made it easier for students and experts in distant academic communities to share the goals, discourses, and practices of particular disciplines (p. 144).”
• www.thinkcycle.org
• Technology in the Academic Curriculum