Bryan P. Sanders

Loyola Marymount University | LMU · School of Education

Why did we ever purchase computers and place them along the wall or in the corner of a classroom? Why did we ever ask students to work individually at a computer? Why did we ever dictate that students should play computer games or answer questions built from a narrow data set? And why are we still doing this with computers in classrooms today? Thi...

Traditional criterion-referenced assessment scores have stayed flat for decades in the USA. This flies in the face of decades’ worth of work to rewrite and reinvigorate pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment. Naturally, educators and policymakers continue the push for not only higher test scores but also meaningful work for students. The following wo...

This article examines the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), notably OpenAI's ChatGPT, into the classroom and emphasizes engagement in a critical thinking model. It provides educators with practical guidance, including sample prompts, to begin working with AI. The article acknowledges valid concerns about AI misuse and invites educators t...

A vision for the student-centered, multidisciplinary, future-looking, human and machine-blended classroom without boundaries or examinations. This optimistic vision builds on the concepts of innovative schools that embrace making and doing in collaboration, and it emphasizes leveraging data and technology for student learning.

This chapter provides a glimpse of the author's life as an elementary school student in the 1980s when Logo and Apple ][ entered the scene.

ACCEPTED PROPOSAL for October 2023 AECT International Convention -- Logo is the only computer programming language and learning environment specifically created for children. Since its inception in 1967, Logo and the theory of Logo have had the potential to shift student learning experiences to constructionism, but this has not been fully realized....

Teachers read Dewey, Montessori, Piaget, Bruner, and Vygotsky, and we know that play is the work of children. Even so, it can feel hard to trust that real learning occurs during play. Given the chance, our students will invent and inquire all day long. They have no shortage of ideas. We do, however, have a shortage of minutes in school to dedicate...

That which was once radical is now mainstream. Case in point, the number of students using computers in classrooms has dramatically increased in the last four decades. Dr. Seymour Papert, widely recognized for his seminal work in educational technology, and his contemporaries envisioned students working on big projects and solving interesting probl...

Technology use in education can certainly speed up our use of paper and how we process and access information. In fact, that is the most understandable and basic goal of using a computer and the one that brings most novice users to convert their workflow to digital. However, replacing paper simply maintains things as they are. For decades, the mach...

Exploring how and why to PIVOT NOW in education amidst this frightening COVID19 reality.

One of the continual challenges facing professors who prepare TK-12 school leaders through the professional educational doctorate (Ed.D. degree), is ensuring a theory-to-practice framework, curriculum, and pedagogy. Furthermore, professors of doctoral programs whose orientation is social justice, often face the dilemma of how to infuse it as a cros...

The most recent draft, in presentation form, of the theoretical approach I am adding to the literature: Critical Techno Constructivism. This is an effort to unify critical theory, computers & computing, and constructivism. My work right now is more of an inflection point, a call to action, a unification of the gospels decades apart but all on the s...

Exploring the work of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and Seymour Papert, I have put together a document analysis founded in an historical study of the computer as a behaviorist tool. The impact of the 'teaching machine' on current classroom computer usage has hindered our imagination to rethink school happening in new ways with computers and computing i...

Relevant to my project on Critical Techno Constructivism, this table shows the instances of the phrasal variations of "technoconstructivism" in major research databases, as of April 2019.

Are you interested in school reform? This toolkit is free for all to download and use to help interrogate the teaching/learning cycle happening at their school site.

This journal article aims to address what is missing in best practices of technology in the classroom. Included in this discussion will be interpretations of cornerstone books written by John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and Seymour Papert. These annotations will add to existing Techno-Constructivist theories and thinking.

Why did we ever purchase computers and place them along the wall or in the corner of a classroom? Why did we ever ask students to work individually at a computer? Why did we ever dictate that students play computer games or answer preset questions built from a narrow data set? And why are we still doing this with computers in classrooms today? When...