Ethical Uses of Technology:
Keeping Perspective

Deborah Healey, ELI, Oregon State University
1997 TESOL Convention, Orlando Florida, March 12

Resources for Further Reading

For enthusiastic support of technology in education

• McClintock, Robert. 1988. Computing and Education: The Second Frontier. New York: Teachers College Press.
  
• McClintock, Robert. 1996. Renewing the Progressive Contract with Posterity: On the Social Construction of Digital Learning Communities. World Wide Web. Available: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/mcclintock/renew/index.html. [Accessed January 21, 1999]
  
• Perlman, Lewis. 1992. School's Out: Hyperlearning, the New Technology, and the End of Education. New York: William Morrow.
  
• Samuels, Cynthia. 1995. A Question of Ethics: Children and Internet Access. World Wide Web. Available: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/conferences/ethics/samuels.html [Accessed January 21, 1999].
  
• Schrage, Michael. 1997. Schooled for Success. World Wide Web. Available: http://www.hotwired.com/packet/packet/schrage/97/09/index1a.html [Accessed January 21, 1999].

For a healthy dose of skepticism about technology

• Bowers, Chet. 1988. The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing: Understanding the Non-neutrality of Technology. New York: Teachers College Press.
  
• CTheory mailing list (ctech@alcor.concordia.ca). This offers a highly literary perspective on technology and society.
  
• Ellul, Jacques. 1964. The Technological Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  
• Postman, Neil. 1993. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

For critical thinking about technology and learning

• Dede, Christopher. 1988. "The Role of Hypertext in Transforming Information into Knowledge." In William C. Ryan (Ed.), Proceedings, NECC '88 (pp. 95-102). Eugene, OR: ICCE.
  
• Dowling, Sherwood A. 1987. Internet Education: Reform or False Panacea? World Wide Web. Available: http://www.twnic.net/inet96/c1/c1_1.htm [Accessed March 8, 1997]. Includes a good bibliography.
  
• Salomon, Gavriel. 1994. Interaction of Media, Cognition, and Learning. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  
• Salomon, Norman. Syndicated column on technology.
  
• Taylor, Robert. 1980. The Computer in the School: Tutor, Tool, Tutee. New York: Teachers College Press.
  
• U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. 1988. Power on! New Tools for Teaching and Learning. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
  
• U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. 1993. Adult Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
  
• Winograd, Terry, and Fernando Flores. 1987. Understanding Computers and Cognition. New York: Addison-Wesley.
  
• and most of the general links on Claire Bradin's page, Ethical Issues in Technology Use, http://pilot.msu.edu/user/bradincl/ethicstesol97.html [Accessed January 21, 1999]

For a mixture of views

• Mailing lists like TESLCA-L (teslca-l@cunyvm.cuny.edu) and LLTI (llti@dartcms1.dartmouth.edu)
• TESOL and other conference presentations
• Journals like CAELL Journal, CALICO Journal, CALL Journal, TESL-EJ (http://www.well.com/user/sokolik/tesl-ej.html)

For more information, contact Deborah Healey
ELI, Oregon State University
301 Snell Hall
Corvallis OR 97331
tel: 541-737-6985
email: Deborah.Healey@orst.edu
Web: http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/