Just Click OK: Technology, Autonomy, and Educational Decision Making

The sections covering learning outcomes, time commitments, and unfamiliar territory reveal that decision to use technology are far more nuanced than a simple YES or NO would indicate.

Instead one must consider a number of sub-questions relating to time commitments, levels of support, learning outcomes, intangible transformations, and professional development and recognition. After processing those considerations, one can then move on to make a critical choice about whether to use technology in teaching.

But before we close, let's look at one other complication that can be illustrated by two alternative computer dialog boxes.

Daniel Anderson
University of North Carolina
iamdan@unc.edu
http://sites.unc.edu/~daniel/ok