Gregg Brownell (1987)
School of Teaching and Learning
Professor, Curriculum Studies/Media Literacy/Classroom Technology
521 Education
(419) 372-9546
gbrowne@bgsu.edu

Education
B.A. Villanova University
M.A. University of Connecticut
Ed.D. University of Kansas

Research Interests
Media Literacy and Democracy.
The Influence of "Corporateering" on Public Education.
Alternative Forms of Representing Information.

Courses Taught
EDTL 611 The Curriculum
EDTL 630 Media Literacy Across the Curriculum
EDTL 638 Seminar on Technoogy and Learning
EDTL 639 Media Literacy, Democracy and the Schools
EDLS 761 TEchnology Trends in Institutional Leadership

BIOGRAPHY
Gregg Brownell earned his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Kansas in 1979, his master's in Education from the University of Connecticut in 1976, and his bachelor's degree in the Humanities from Villanova University in 1973. He has taught grades one, and six, English grades seven and eight, and secondary English at an inner–city high school. Gregg developed his interest in computers and technology by taking postdoctoral courses and working for several years as a programmer analyst at The Hartford Insurance Group on a major development project. He went on to develop and teach courses in programming and information systems at Mohegan Community College (and later the University of New Hampshire at Manchester) while developing the first course for teachers on computers and education at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the author of the early, highly successful text Computers and Teaching (1987, 1992) and lead author of the texts, A Mac for the Teacher (1994, 1996) and A PC for the Teacher (1999). Gregg has numerous refereed journal publications, refereed proceedings, and national presentations including both refereed and invited papers. From 1992 to 1995 Gregg served as the Director of the College Clinical and Computer Labs and from 1995 to 1998 he was Director of Technology Services for the College. He is the founder, coordinator and teaches in the M.Ed. in Classroom Technology program and wrote and teaches EDLS 761 Technology Trends in Institutional Leadership, in the Leadership Studies doctoral program. He worked with our community partners, “Become the Media,” to develop and implement BGSU's annual Symposium on Media Literacy for Educators which takes place at BGSU each June, and continues this collaboration as other projects arise.

In 2003, Gregg was fortunate to spend a semester as a fellow at BGSU's Institute for the Study of Culture and Society studying media literacy, its relationship to curriculum studies, and the interplay of media literacy, culture and society. His article, “Media Literacy and Technology in the Schools: Searching and Re–Searching for the Meta–Story of Our Time,” (published in the Spring, 2005 issue of Telemedium: The Journal of Media Literacy ) won a writing award when he was selected from an international field as one of eleven scholars presenting important emerging scholarship in the field of media literacy.

His research interests include applying the reconceptualized curriculum studies field to an understanding of technology integration, educational policy and politics, and, most especially, media literacy and how it affects our society, culture, leadership, and the practicing teacher. He is interested in how pro–democratic uses of technology in schools and society spread, how they can be encouraged, and the part media literacy skills and concepts can play in the work of leaders. Most recently, he has been researching relevant culture studies, political, curriculum studies and historical texts regarding his next major writing project, with the working title, “Alien Nation: A Primer on Empire, Corporations, and Restoring Democracy.”

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RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

MASTERS IN CLASSROOM TECHOLOGY