Technology, Curriculum and Professional Development highlights some important considerations for making technology implementation meaningful and enduring for students with disabilities. Implementing technologies or new curricula creates intricate complexities that educators in both general and special education have seldom anticipated, much less managed well. John Woodward and Larry Cuban examine what researchers have learned about instructional interventions for students with disabilities. While the majority of the chapters focus on innovative uses of technology, there is also careful consideration of pedagogical, curricular, and classroom organizational approaches. The authors: provide a critical examination of the efforts made; detail the successes, failures, and enduring dilemmas that have been faced in validating research-based strategies for students with disabilities; suggest important design considerations for researchers and developers; provide ideas for giving research a more powerful voice by expanding its vocabulary of real world implementation
About the Editors About the Contributors Introduction - David B. Malouf Special Education Technology and the Field of Dreams 1. No Easy Answer - John Woodward, Deborah Gallagher, and Herbert Reith The Instructional Effectiveness of Technology for Students with Disabilities 2. It Can't Hurt - Bonnie Todis Implementing AAC Technology in the Classroom for Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities 3. Preparing Future Citizens - Cynthia M. Okolo and Ralp P. Ferretti Technology-Supported, Project-Based Learning in the Social Studies 4. Classwide Peer Tutoring Program - Charles R. Greenwood, Liang-Shye Hou, Joseph Delquadri, Barbara J. Terry, and Carmen Arreaga-Mayer A Learning Management System 5. Sustaining a Curriculum Innovation - Judith M. Zorfass Cases of Make It Happen! 6. Technology Implementation in Special Education - Charles A. MacArthur Understanding Teachers' Beliefs, Plans and Decisions 7. Why Are Most Teachers Infrequent and Restrained Users of Computers in Their Classrooms? - Larry Cuban 8. Designing Technology Professional Development Programs - Edward Blackhurst 9. The Construction of Knowledge in a Collaborative Community - Carol Sue Englert and Yong Zhao Reflections on Three Projects 10. The Rise and Fall of the Community Transition Team Model - Andrew S. Halpern and Michael R. Benz 11. How Does Technology Support a Special Education Agenda? Using What We Have Learned to Inform the Future - Marleen C. Pugach and Cynthia L. Warger Index
"...the volume will benefit researchers and those involved in the implementation of technology for students with disabilities." -- C. Grissom, Marian College * January 2002, vol. 39, no. 5 *
