About CTSC: Teaching & Learning with Technology

Transforming Teaching and Learning

The Center for Technology and School Change (CTSC) is committed to addressing the need to transform teaching and learning -- from the pre-kindergarten to senior high school level. Technology can serve as a powerful catalyst for helping teachers re-examine their curriculum. As a result, CTSC seeks to:

• improve teaching by making it a more creative and intellectually stimulating undertaking for teachers;
• contribute to a growing professional knowledge base in technology use;
• increase the energy, enthusiasm, and interaction in classrooms; and
• enhance teaching through project-based learning.

CTSC recognizes that learning technology applications, in isolation, will not result in the integration of technology in the classroom by teachers. Technology is a tool that must be taught in the context of creating curriculum through classroom teachers' hands-on participation in the learning process. CTSC also recognizes that integrating technology is a developmental process.

Our Strategies

One of CTSC's strategies is to develop practitioner leadership to initiate and sustain this transformation process. Other strategies with regards to classroom practices have been adapted from the innovative educator Michael Fullan (2001):

• inform teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning with the use of technology;
• inspire interest in new approaches to working in the classroom; and
• create an understanding of how materials--in this case, technology--can transform teaching and learning in the classroom.