A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

Examples: Research Collaborations

At Open Charter School, Apple Computer paid teachers as consultants to work on developing instructional applications during their three-week breaks. Teachers were involved also in field testing experimental software.

At Hawthorne Elementary School, teachers trying out CSILE had extensive interaction with the software developers and their site support team. While teachers received valuable insights into how the CSILE software might support what they were trying to do in their classes, the developers received feedback from the teachers on how the system was working. For example, teachers pointed out that the original interface was too difficult for their students to navigate; students were much more successful with the system after a new interface was implemented. In this way, the teachers gained experience as professional collaborators in a research and development activity.

At Ralph Bunche Computer Mini-School, computer coordinator Paul Reese has had a long-standing relationship with external research teams, sharing in the development of research proposals and the ongoing design of research activities as well as in the resulting funding.