EDUCATIONAL-TECHNOLOGY - MEDIA FOR INQUIRY, COMMUNICATION, CONSTRUCTION, AND EXPRESSION

We describe a new way of classifying uses of educational technologies, based on a four-part division suggested years ago by John Dewey: inqu iry, communication, construction, and expression. This taxonomy is com pared to previous taxonomies of educational technologies, and is found to cover a wider range of uses, including many of the cutting-edge us es of educational technologies. We have tested the utility of this tax onomy by using it to classify a set of ''advanced applications'' of ed ucational technologies supported by the National Science Foundation, a nd we use the taxonomy to point to new potential uses of technologies to support learning.