1.C.+Essential+Questions

What provocative questions will foster inquiry, understanding, and transfer of learning?

Some provocative questions related to this project include:


 * How does the medium of communication affect the process of communication? (Here [|McLuhan] again comes to mind, but there must be a substantial literature on this topic)
 * Following from the previous question, how does the medium of collaboration affect the process of collaboration?
 * What does "appropriate technology" mean? How do we determine what is "appropriate"?
 * Following from the previous question, when does technology get in the way of genuine communication or collaboration?
 * Technical proficiency with tools of collaboration of course is important. But what other skills are necessary for creating the conditions of successful collaboration for our students (not the target students for this project, i.e. technology teachers, but the middle school students we are serving)?