What I do

1. interpret theory, research, and evaluation to help educators make informed, well-considered decisions about technology-based educational programs and practices.
2. use information technology to foster more adventurous, authentic teaching of important, powerful ideas in secondary schools.
3. conduct design research to improve the design of educational materials and programs

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Writing

In progress:
• Fundamentals of Curriculum, Second Edition.
• "From Virtual Frog to Frog Island: Design Studies in a Development Project." (forthcoming) Journal of Curriculum Studies.
• "Teacher Centered Evaluation." with Miriam Ben-Peretz.

On the back burner for now...
• Designing Interactive Media with Students - A basic book for teachers on designing informal interactive teaching and learning materials with their students.
• Teaching with Computers - A guide for teachers to incorporating computer technology into their teaching.
• "Formative studies in the design of a flexible computer classroom" (with Charles Kerns, Rachel Wilson, and Ruth Huard)
• "The meaning of information technology for education"

Recently completed:
• "Why won't they listen? Reflections of a formative evaluator."  Advances in Program Evaluation 3:121-137, 1997.
• Curriculum & Aims Third edition, 1998.
• "Will Computers Dehumanize Education?" (with Helen Nissenbaum). Technology and Society.
• "An ACOT for Tomorrow." in Charles Fisher (ed.)Education and Technology: Reflections on a Decade of Experimentation in Classrooms. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
• Review of Janet Schofield's book, Computers in the Classroom in Journal of Curriculum Studies Winter, 1996.

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Research & Development Projects

• IBJ Negotiation Project
• Design of Technology to Supplement Teachers' Subject-Matter Knowledge
• External Evaluation of the Lewis and Clark Project

On the back burner...

• Teaching Historical Research Using the Web
• Designing Interactive Media with Students

Student research projects

Dissertations underway
• Marta Forero's
• Mary Slattery Johnson's
• Steve Herman's
• Doug Jackson's
• Chris Rohrer's
• Beth Schneider's
• Nomi Martin's
• Ali Borjian's

Dissertations recently completed
• Gabriela Magaña Banks's
• Liz Lazeroff's
• Derek Reamon's
• Ruth Huard's
• Andy Winzelberg's
• Karen Yamamoto's

Other student projects underway
• Aha! project (Caitlin  Martin, Katherine Emery)
• Joshua Vura-Weiss's honors project

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Teaching

 
• Ed 224 - Information Technology in the Classroom
• Ed 229a - Learning, Design, and Technology Seminar (Summer)
• Ed 229d - Learning, Design, and Technology Seminar (Spring)
• Ed 106 - Interactive Media in Education
• Ed 208c - Introduction to Curriculum

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Service

 
• Member, Search Committee, Technology in Education (Cluster II)
• Director, Learning, Design, and Technology Program
• Faculty Sponsor, The Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology

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Who I am

This section is more under construction than the rest. See my curriculum vitae below for more details of my professional life.

Name: Decker F. Walker

Birth: Catlettsburg, Kentucky, USA

Marital Status: Divorced, three children, ages 35, 33, 17

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D. Stanford University, l97l (Education)

M. A. Carnegie Mellon University, l966 (Natural Science)

B. S. Carnegie Mellon University, l963 (Physics)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Professor of Education, Stanford University, 1990-

Program officer, Secondary materials development, NSF, 1988-9

Associate Professor of Education, Stanford University, 1973-1989

Associate Professor of Elementary Education, University of Illinois, l972-73

Assistant Professor of Education, Stanford University, l971-73

Science Teacher, Taylor-Allderdice High School, Pittsburgh, PA, l963-67

Member, Commission on Technology in Teaching and Learning, Stanford, 1994-5

Chair, Curriculum and Teacher Education Area Committee, 1986-88, 1992-present

Member, Advisory Committee, Academic Software Development Group, Stanford University, 1993-present

Member, Steering Committee, Stanford and the Schools Collaborative, 1986-8, '93-4

Director, Interactive Educational Technology Program, Stanford, l982-1986

Chairman, Panel on Technology, Study of Stanford and the Schools, 1982-5

Director, Stanford-Hoover Teacher Corps Project, l975-77

Elected Member, Dean's Advisory Committee, School of Education, Stanford,

elected by the faculty, 1985-7 and other years dating back to 1973-5

Chair, Academic Senate Committee on Libraries, 1986-8

Chair, Search Committee on teacher education, 1981-82

Member, Search Committee for Dean of the School of Education, 1979-80.

AWARDS

Landsdowne Scholar, University of Victoria, 1982

Spencer Fellow, National Academy of Education, 1972-77

Deans Honors Fellowship, Stanford University, 1970

GRANTS highlights

IBJ Foundation, International Negotiation Project, HS use of e-mail, 1994- present

California Advocacy for Mathematics and Science, formative evaluation, 1992-4

Getty Trust for Education and the Arts, qualitative evaluation of arts programs, 1988-9

Stanford and the Schools Collaborative, studies of technology in Bay Area Schools,1988-89

IBM, Advanced Education Projects, Interactive Educatonal Technology Program,1984-6

Lilly Endowment, Technology Panel, Study of Stanford and the Schools, 1982-4

Ford Foundation, Studies of the classroom use of textbooks, 1980-1

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Handbook of Research on Curriculum, 1988-90

Member, National Steering Committee, Study on Computers in Education Study, Ron Anderson, U. of Minnesota, Principal Investigator, 1988-90

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Supervision & Curriculum, 1984-1991

Member, American Educational Research Association, l969- present,

Vice-President for Division B, AERA, l975 (elected)

Member, Computer Using Educators, l98l-

Member, International Society for Technology in Education, 1986-

Member, National Steering Committee, IEA study of computers in education, Center for the Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University, 1988

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Curriculum Inquiry, l974-80

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Reviews of Research in Education, l974-77

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

In Progress: Teaching With Information Technology

1991. (with Jonas F. Soltis) Curriculum and Aims. (Second Edition) New York: Teachers College Press.

1990. Fundamentals of Curriculum. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

1986. (with Jonas F. Soltis) Curriculum and Aims. New York: Teachers College Press. (Second edition, 1991)

1984. (with Robert Hess) Instructional Software. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

1981. (with Lee J. Cronbach and others) Toward Reform of Program Evaluation. Berkeley, CA: Jossey-Bass

In progress: "Formative research in developing a flexible computer classroom" with Charles Kerns, Ruth Huard, and Rachel Wilson.

1996: "An ACOT for Tomorrow." in Charles Fisher (ed.)Education and Technology: Reflections on a Decade of Experimentation in Classrooms. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.

1993: "New information technology and the curriculum" pp 4081-88 in Thorsten Husen and Neville T. Postlethwaite (eds.). The International Encyclopedia of Education (2nd Edition) v. 7 1994. Pergamon Press.

1992: "Computers in California high schools: Implications for teacher education." Journal fo Computing in Teacher Education. v8 n4, summer, 1992.

1991: "Methodological Issues in Curriculum Research" pp. 98-118 in Philip W.Jackson (editor), Handbook of Research in Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

"Curriculum Policy" pp. 112-115 in Marvin C. Alkin (ed). Encyclopedia of Educational Research. (Sixth Edition) Washington, D.C: American Educational Research Association.

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