What is the process of adopting an innovation?
chip bruce
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Subject Areas
| Education, Educational Technology, Information Science |
Grade Levels
| Undergraduate, Graduate, Continuing |
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Background and Resources
Background
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Bruce, B. C., & Rubin, A. D. (1993). Situated evaluation. In Electronic Quills . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Loucks-Horsley, Susan (1996). The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A model for change in individuals. From "Professional development for science education: A critical and immediate challenge." In Rodger Bybee (Ed.), National standards & the science curriculum. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt.
Resources
Bruce, B. C. (1993). Innovation and social change. In B. C. Bruce, J. K. Peyton, and T. W. Batson (Eds.), Network-based classrooms: Promises and realities (pp. 9-32). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bruce, B. C. (1999, March). Challenges for the evaluation of new information and communication technologies. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 42 (6), 450-459.
Bruce, B. C. (1999, September). Educational reform: How does technology affect educational change? Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 43 (1), 42-47.
Bruce, Bertram, & Levin, James. (2003). Roles of new technologies in language arts: Inquiry, communication, construction, and expression. In J. Flood, D. Lapp, J. R. Squire, & J. R. Jensen (Eds.), Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts, 2nd edition (pp. 649-657). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bruce, Bertram, & Levin, James (1997). Educational technology: Media for inquiry, communication, construction, and expression. Journal of Educational. Computing Research, 17(1), 79-102.
Contractor, Noshir S. (1993, June). Theoretical frameworks for the study of structuring processes in group decision support systems. Human Communication Research, 19 , 528-68.
DeSanctis, G., & Poole, M. S. (1994). Capturing the complexity in advanced technology use: Adaptive structuration theory. Organization Science, 5 , 121-147.
FM Interviews. (1996, May 6). Spreadsheet anthropologist Apple researcher Bonnie Nardi observes digital villagers at work. First Monday, 1 (1). Available: www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue1/nardi/index.html.
Levin, James, & Bruce, Bertram (2001). Technology as media: The learner centered perspective. Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle WA.
Malone, T. W., & Crowston, K. (1994, March). The interdisciplinary study of coordination, ACM Computing Surveys , 26 (1), 87-119. Available: http://ccs.mit.edu/CCSWP157.html.
Merton, Robert K. (1957). Social theory and social structure . Glencoe, IL.: The Free Press.
Misa, T. J. (1994). Retrieving sociotechnical change from technological determinism. In M.R. Smith & L. Marx (Eds.), Does technology drive history? The dilemma of technological determinism (pp. 115-142). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Nardi, B. A., & O'Day, V. L. (1999). Information ecologies . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Poole, M. S., & DeSanctis, G. (1990). Understanding the use of group decision support systems: The theory of adaptive structuration. In J. Fulk and C. Steinfield (Eds.), Organizations and communication technology (pp.175-195). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Raymond, E. S. (1998). The cathedral and the bazaar. First Monday, 3 (3).
Rogers, Everett M. §§1, Elements of diffusion in Diffusion of Innovations (pp. 1-37).
Rogers, Everett M. (1986). Communication technology: The new media in society. New York: Macmillan Free Press.
Schon, Donald A., Sanyal, Bish, Mitchell, William J. (Eds.) (1999). High technology and low-income communities: Prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Tenner, E. (1996). Why things bite back: Technology and the revenge of unintended consequences . New York: Random House. |
Dialogues, Discussions, and Presentations
Rheingold, Look who's talking
Howard Rheingold asks, "How often do we interrupt a conversation with someone who is physically present in order to answer the telephone? Is the family meal enhanced by a beeper? Who exactly is benefiting from call waiting? Is automated voicemail a dark hint about the way our institutions value human time and life? Can pagers and cell phones that vibrate instead of ring solve the problem? Does the enjoyment of virtual communities by growing numbers of people enhance or erode citizen participation in the civic life of geographic communities?"
He ends with the big question, "If we decided that community came first, how would we use our tools differently?"
Consider your use of communications tools such as the telephone, with associated tools of beepers, pagers, call waiting, automated voicemail, cell and portable phones, or email, and its cousins of instant messaging, bulletin boards, blogs, and so on. Do these promote community in Rheingold's sense? How might they be designed or used differently to accomplish that? |
Assessment, Related Questions, and Story of the Unit
- What are the contributors to organizational capacity for innovation?
- How and why are innovation realized differently in different settings?
- How do latent functions (cf. Merton, Tenner) operate?
- What is adaptive structuration?
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