(not light reading, but good for reflection on policy making)

Below are some questions, you may want to aks yoruself and your colleagues
if you are in the process of designing a TLT strategy.
As you will immediately notice from the first question asked, this comes
from an American mailinglist, details enclosed underneath.

The questions came up at the Second International Congress on Quaker
Education (Summer, 1997) 
[Participants in a workshop led by Steven W. Gilbert first 
created a list of 22 topics that might be developed into 
useful .  The participants then wrote working 
drafts of the 11 queries which you will find below.  We 
look forward to engaging others in extending this activity, 
revising our first efforts, developing more queries on 
related topics, and learning how to use these queries most 
effectively.

Workshop participants included:
Gary Farlow, Louisa Hatanaka, Jim Hood, Tom Kirk, John 
Oresic, David Ross, Ed Snyder, Jane Stavis, David Weksler,
Steven W. Gilbert.]

1.  Humane and Appropriate Use of Technology

Do we individually and collectively use computerized and 
networked information technologies in an humane and 
appropriate manner that safeguards and edifies the dignity 
and sanctity of the person and the good of society?


2.  Equity of Access (within institution, across 
institutions, inside/outside, public)

In what ways does your institution support access to 
information technology for all members of the community 
regardless of their specific roles as students, staff, 
faculty, alumni, neighbors?


3.  Accommodating/Understanding Diversity of Attitudes 
Toward, Responses to, and Skills with Information
Technology

In what ways does your [requiring/urging] use of 
information technology recognize differences in the level 
of comfort in using information technology?  Familiarity 
with information technology?  Skill level in using 
information technology?

How does your educational program help users become more 
comfortable with and adept at using information technology?
As you evaluate the effectiveness of your educational 
programs do you seek people's reactions to the use of 
technology to aid teaching and learning?


4.  Coping with Information Flood

How can you as teachers help your students distinguish 
between information that clarifies and information that 
clutters?  How can you as teachers ensure that your 
students inwardly digest and incorporate new information 
into their spiritual and mental growth, rather than simply 
gathering endlessly?


5.  Technology and Economics

In your decision-making about and use of information 
technology, do you carefull consider the wider economic 
implications of participation in the processes of 
technological change?


6.  Keep Up, Slow Down (Discipline) 

Do you inquire at regular intervals about the viability and 
appropriateness of the information technology you are 
using?  Do you schedule your use of information technology 
so that the information can be reflectively considered over 
an appropriate time? 


7.  Enabling Use 

Do you seek to use technology to extend your capabilities 
and those of your students?  Do these uses provide an 
advantage over - or replacement for - other methods?  Do 
you seek to adjust the technology to provide new or 
different insight(s) into your task or inquiry? 


8.  "Opening Doors" to Broader, Deeper, Understanding, 
Wisdom 

In what ways are you encouraging, through interdisciplinary 
studies and otherwise, an educational process which helps 
students organize, integrate, and give comprehensive 
meaning to the information they are receiving and which 
encourages then to remain open throughout their lives to 
new insights and understandings unfolding in the world? 


9.  Move from Lecturing to Facilitating 

What is the best use of the limited time students and 
faculty have to be with one another?  When is a lecture the 
most effective means of conveying information?  What tools 
and environments are most effective in enabling teachers to 
facilitate student learning?


10.  Better Combinations of Face-to-Face Meetings, 
Telecommunications, etc. 

In what ways are you identifying or developing the most 
educationally useful combinations of face-to-face meetings, 
telecommunications, and independent work?  What are you 
doing to understand more fully the unique educational 
assets only available in face-to-face meetings?  What are 
you doing to learn how to use various forms of 
telecommunications to improve the quality and learning for 
students who can attend classes on campus and for those who 
cannot (or those who find it highly inconvenient to do so)?


11.  Lifelong Teaching and Lifelong Learning 

In what ways are you encouraging and supporting lifelong 
teaching and lifelong learning?  How do you enable students 
to teach their peers, to teach their teachers, and to help 
others within and outside of your institution?  How do you 
encourage and support alumni and retired faculty to 
continue learning and help with teaching?  How do you use 
information technology to support lifelong teaching and 
lifelong learning?


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