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Social Foundations in Education and Technology
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Module 2 - Organizational Dynamics and School Structures

This module includes responses two articles and two books related to the organizational dynamics and school structures and the use of technology in the classroom.  To read my response, click on the my response link at the end of each citation.  Unfortunately, I cannot provide the articles due to copyright restrictions. 

Articles

Weick, Karl E.  1976. Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems. Administrative Science Quarterly, 21(1), pp. 1-19.  [my response]

Noble, David F.  1998.  Selling academe to the technology industry.  Thought and Action, 14, pp. 29-40.  [my response]

Books
Larry Cuban. (1999) How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Constancy and Change in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990. New York: Teachers College Press. [my response]

Cuban, Larry.  (1986).  Teachers and machines:  The classroom use of technology since 1920.  New York:  Teachers College Press.  [my response]