Communities Resolving Our Problems: the basic idea
[SUP: Sharing Problems][THINK: Guidance][LEAP: Solving Problems]
Questions are the seeds of solutions. Robert S. Houghton

Question Ambassadors: Lead Your School to
Information, Technology and Innovation

CROP stands for Communities Resolving Our Problems. The basic idea of the CROP web site is to teach reflectively. This means, in part, to teach in order to learn, not to teach because we have learned. This also means to both teach each other and also more effectively teach ourselves as we learn to solve problems, either individually or collectively. CROP's design plans for an integration of school-based and work-based learning communities. CROP, then, is a new kind of application, a web based problem processor. CROP aids two audiences that seek to spell out and solve problems, individuals and communities. This performance-support system integrates a wide range of previous telecomputer applications in principle, both on the net and off. Similar but more specialized web problem processors could be designed for a wide range of disciplines.

Transition Technology - A Path to the Twenty-First Century

  • Low-tech or paper to high-tech transition methods of CROP :

    Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
    Presentation - Friday, 4 pm.

    9th International Conference - Washington, D.C.
    Hyatt Regency Bethesda - March 10-14, , 1998

    Dr. Robert S. Houghton, Director of Technology
    College of Education and Allied Professions
    Dept. of Elementary & Middle Grades Education, Western Carolina University
    Email: houghton@WPOFF.wcu.edu Web: http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/houghton/BobHhome.html