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Vaccare, Carmel; Sherman, Greg – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 2001
The 4S model uses the criteria "Simple, Stable, Scalable, and Sustainable" as a filter for selecting instructional technologies. This paper considers a social dimension that uses culture and interaction as the primary consideration in the deployment of any instructional technology within the context of the 4S model. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Classification, Cultural Influences, Educational Technology
Nichols, Randall G. – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 1994
Argues that educational technology has profound and questionable effects, including teaching the superiority of technology to human communication; creation of a gap between technology haves and have nots; potential for fostering social turbulence; and emphasizing the authority of reason and a consciousness separate from the body, which encourages…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Ecology
