Web-Related Exercise 1

E-mail your answers to Questions 1 through 5 to Jeanne.

All five questions are based on the Burbules and Callister article. You are expected to help each other, both in accessing the paper and in finding the answers. But you are expected to e-mail your own answer. HELP, I'M LOST!! Click on HELP for help.

1. Burbules and Callister discuss several ways that higher education has misunderstood high tech. The first of these is:

   1. That high tech can't be relied on to work well - machines are often broken.
   2. Poor schools often have less access to the needed equipment.
   3. People tend to expect that high tech is the answer to all our educational problems.
   4. High tech is really just a marketing ploy.
   5. None of the above.

2. Burbules and Callister call the second misunderstanding of high tech the "computer as tool" perspective. By that they mean:

   1. That people have "too much faith in the technology itself."
   2. That the computer is a neutral tool.
   3. That people, not the computer, are the problem.
   4. That new technologies bring unintended problems along with the intended solutions.
   5. That it is a sign of progress that students no longer need to know math to do statistics.

3. Burbules and Callister speak of a post-technocratic approach to high tech. What do they mean by that?

   1. That in just the way that the head of the coin goes with the tail, "bad" outcomes from high tech will go with the "good" outcomes.
   2. That there are in fact discoverable answers to the use of high tech.
   3. That we must weigh the cost of the "good" effects against the "bad" effects.
   4. That people like Foucault are wrong to be afraid of high tech.
   5. That good measurement of indeterminate consequences will solve the dilemma of high tech.

4. Define in 15 words or less "panacea."

5. Define in 15 words or less "excoriate."

E-mail your answer to Jeanne.
HELP, I'M LOST
BACK to Statistics Site Home Page.

Web Exercise 2 - Search Engines

• The Activity

  LINK to Search Activity. Then look for the links to bring you back to the exercise. Remember that you could use a bookmark for this page so you can get back, if you're lost, or use the Netscape BACK button to return to this exercise page. Navigate safely. HELP, I'm Lost. Click on HELP for help.

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• The Exercise

  1. How many categories did you find on this initial search?
  2. How many sites did you find on this initial search?
  3. What would you have to do to answer a question like: "Name one of the sites the search found? (Trust me, you can't do this without going further." What's the next step?

  Clue: Scroll to the bottom of the first search page and you will see NEXT 20 SEARCHES. Click there, and then see what happens. Play a little. Remember that you can always use the browser's BACK button to get back to previous screens. And FORWARD to go forward to screens you've already visited. E-mail your answers to questions 1 through 3 to Jeanne.

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  HELP, I'M LOST
  BACK to Statistics Site Home Page.
  

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  Web-Related Exercise 3

  • The Activity - Searching Publisher's Information on Books

    LINK to activity: the search example itself. Then look for the links to bring you back to the exercise. Remember that you could use a bookmark for this page so you can get back, if you're lost, or use the Netscape BACK button to return to this exercise page. Navigate safely.

  • The Exercise

    1. Did you try to go directly to the publisher's information on the book?

    2. Did you type in the author's name and do the search?

    3. Did you have to go through the list of titles or did you get directly to the information after your initial search?

    4. Explain in 25 words or less how these searches illustrate Burbules and Calister's "Risky Promises." HELP, I'M LOST. I don't remember "Risky Promises."

    5. And now for some sleuthing. Now in 25 words or less tell me who the author is? "Just the facts," please. It is good to be laconic.

    6. Then just for fun, define "laconic" in 25 words or less.

  Now, isn't this fun?

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  Web-Related Exercise 4

  • The Activity - Evaluating Web Sites

    LINK to activity: Web sites to evaluate. Then look for the links to bring you back to the exercise. Remember that you could use a bookmark for this page so you can get back, if you're lost, or use the Netscape BACK button to return to this exercise page. Navigate safely.

  • The Exercise

    1. Textbooks as sources of classroom information may create less stress than the Web as source because:

       1. You can readily find the textbook.
       2. You don't