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Author Jenson, Jennifer, 1950- author.

Title Policy unplugged : dis/connections between technology policy and practices in Canadian schools / Jennifer Jenson, Chloë Brushwood Rose, Brian Lewis ; with Richard Smith, Stan Shapson, Penny Milton, and Robert Kennedy
Published Montreal ; Ithaca, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 176 pages)
Contents 1. The global and the local : technology policy in education / Brian Lewis and Jennifer Jenson -- 2. Finding space for technology : organizational and instructional issues for computer-use in schools / Chloë Brushwood Rose and Jennifer Jenson -- 3. Gender inequity and professional school culture : teachers at work with technology / Chloë Brushwood Rose and Jennifer Jenson -- 4. IT professional development for teachers : beyond "best-practice" lists / Jennifer Jenson, Brian Lewis and Richard Smith -- 5. Supporting technology versus instruction : divisions in policy and practice / Jennifer Jenson and Chloë Brushwood Rose -- 6. Making better policies for learning technologies / Penny Milton and Robert Kennedy -- 7. Bridging policy gaps between teaching and technology / Stan Shapson -- Conclusion : learning from local needs / Jennifer Jenson and Chloë Brushwood Rose
Summary The authors conducted a two-year study on the implementation of computer technologies, including in-depth interviews and classroom observation at thirty-two elementary and secondary schools across Canada. Based on this research, Policy Unplugged explores the intersections and disconnections between provincial technology policy, school board policy, and school-based practices. The authors consider the ways in which technology policy has become "unplugged" from daily experience, showing that teachers, students, and administrators are part of complex pedagogical and social systems that have been badly served by the enforced and hasty introduction of technology. They also show how small, often unquestioned practices and power relations in schools can create seemingly insurmountable impediments to technological implementation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-170) and index
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Subject Educational technology -- Canada
Educational technology -- Government policy -- Canada
Education, Elementary -- Canada -- Data processing
Education, Secondary -- Canada -- Data processing
COMPUTERS -- Educational Software.
EDUCATION -- Computers & Technology.
Education, Elementary -- Data processing
Education, Secondary -- Data processing
Educational technology
Educational technology -- Government policy
Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Brushwood Rose, Chloë T. (Chloë Tamara), 1972- author.
Lewis, Brian, 1948- author.
ISBN 9780773560420
0773560424