A Tale of Two High Schools: An Investigation of Reform Contexts and Technology Use Among Students, Teachers, and Administrators in Two Urban High Schools

PI寻求以新颖和创新的方式建立在NSF目前支持的研究议程上，该议程的奖项编号为REC-9815026，“希勒项目：无处不在的便携式技术在城市学校的影响”。“PI有一个时间敏感的机会，扩大她的家庭学校网络技术的使用调查，她所在地区的第二所高中。 PI建议比较技术在两个非常不同的高中环境中的作用，一个在改革竞技场（爱默生高中）中取得了长足的进步，另一个在以学生为中心的教学法之前还有很长的路要走（联合高中）。 该项目将使PI能够进行研究，使她能够系统地调查技术与高中教育系统改革之间的关系。 PI还将能够在这些背景下查看城市环境中家庭-学校获取技术的可供性。

The PI seeks to build in novel and innovative ways upon the research agenda currently supported by NSF under award number REC-9815026, "Project Hiller: The Impact of Ubiquitous Portable Technology in an Urban School." The PI has a time-sensitive opportunity to expand her investigation of the use of home-school networking technology to her district's second high school. The PI proposes to compare the role of technology in two very different high school contexts, one that has made substantial strides in the reform arena (Emerson High School) and another that has a long way to go before a more student-centered pedagogy can take hold (Union High School). The project will enable the PI to conduct research which will allow her to systematically investigate the relationship between technology and systemic educational reform at the high school level. The PI will also be able to look across these contexts at the affordances of home-school access to technology in an urban environment.