I teach in the Computer Lab in a suburban elementary School. I am also the
district's Elementary Technology Coordinator which is a poorly funded, token
attempt by the district to acknowledge that support is needed for teachers
beginning to integrate technology into their practice. I teach LOGO
programming to my students and a bit of robotics. My school regularly relies
on me to work with "gifted" students. I sometimes teach staff development
workshop to teachers at various levels of computer experience.
I am currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of Colorado
at Denver. I am evolving along with this new, cross-curricular program. It is
sometimes called Leadership and Innovation in Education and sometimes
Curriculum, Learning, and Technology. Having achieved enough comfort with the
technology, I am want to learn more about the human side of the educational
technology interaction. I am in the throes of trying to understand chaos
theory as a model for understanding complex social systems such as schools.
Some authors that have recently influenced my thinking are (randomly) S.
Papert, S. Turkle, G. Bateson, C. Jung, W. Reid, S. Kellert, I. Prigogine, C.
Levy-Strauss, D. Chrislip & C. Larson, M. Wheatley, Aristotle, and most
recently M. Bryson and S. De Castell. I hope to benefit from the research
they described in _Mind, Culture, and Activity_ as a computer-using
teacher/model, as a researcher, and as a self-reflective person.
-Kathie
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Katherine E. Goff / "If the
world is night,
District Elementary Technology Coordinator / Shine my life like a
light."
Cotton Creek Elementary Computer Specialist / ---The Indigo Girls
kegoff@ouray.cudenver.edu