In the early 1990s, Chip Bruce created a taxonomy of education technology uses, which the author of the article helped to expand and evaluate. This taxonomy is based on John Dewey's ‘four impulses of the child’: inquiry, construction, communication, and expression. This taxonomy has helped people interested in the uses of technologies for education to better understand the range of uses and it has also helped spur the development of new uses.
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BruceB. (1991) Roles for Computers in Teaching the English Language Arts, in JensenJ.FloodJ.LappD. & SquireJ. (Eds) Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, pp. 536–541. New York: Macmillan.
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BruceB.C. & LevinJ.A. (1997) Educational Technology: Media for inquiry, communication, construction, and expression, Journal of Educational Computing Research, 17(1), 79–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/7HPQ-4F3X-8M8Y-TVCA
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BruceB. & LevinJ. (2003) Roles for New Technologies in Language Arts: Inquiry, communication, construction, and expression, in FloodJ.LappD.SquireJ. & JensonJ. (Eds) The Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, pp. 649–657. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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DeweyJ. (1956) The Child and the Curriculum and the School and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
