Meeting Eight: Individual and Social Constructions of Meaning

Teachers and Machines (Cuban)

How would you summarize your thread?

What are the “take away” lessons from Teachers and Machines?

Implementation (the means to the end)

Constructs for Taking Individuals into Account Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM)

– Your stage of concern predicts the sort and type of support you need. Information for helping change agents plan PD

Teacher Beliefs– i.e. TLC Report #4 measured teacher beliefs

and classroom practices (Report #1 correlated practice and computer use)

Attitudes Towards Computers

First and Second Order Change First Order Change

– A more minor change to what is already being done.

– It is easily reversible Second Order Change

– something significantly or fundamentally different from what was done before.

– The process is irreversible: once you begin, it is impossible to return to the way you were doing before.

Cargo Cults

South Pacific: A large ship (or airplane) would deliver the cargo if they properly and ritualistically appeased the gods.– Wooden radios with vines as “cords”– Hack airstrips out of the jungle– Carry bamboo guns and practice drills, etc.

A tragic relationship between the end and the means.

“Real Schools”

A “grammar” of schooling– Deeply help idea of schools and classrooms

held by educators, parents, and students– The proper way it should be carried out

Second order change would alter some elements and therefore challenge “how it supposed to be”