Technology as Media: The Learner Centered Perspective

James A. Levin


Bertram C. Bruce

University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Paper presented at the 2001 AERA Meeting, Seattle WASymposium 33.48What Teachers Should Know about Technology? Perspectives and Practices
March 2001
Marla EDT 619 September 26, 2011
Observations
The taxonomies represented in the assigned article are a balance between learning and doing, media for inquiry, media for learning, media for communication, and media for construction.

I appreciate media for communication because without the course package web systems we would not be able to learn in the blackboard environment. I was interested in the media for construction piece because it discusses multiple systems of knowledge that are streamed together in a coordinated manner. But when examining Media for inquiry, I know that this is the taxonomy area that I would like to discuss. Media for inquiry sites are typically interactive and designed to complement the lesson plan.