Empowering Students With Technology
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-57517-372-6 (ISBN)
Description
From an international leader in facilitating the integration of technology into learning and critical thinking, Empowering Students With Technology will energize the classroom with exciting ideas that will spark students' interest and rekindle the thrill of teaching.
This timely handbook helps students and teachers connect content to real life through new resources and learning relationships that are available through technology. E-VENTURES, learning adventures powered by technology, will provide practical lesson ideas. Featured real-life stories demonstrate not only what is possible but also what technology is already accomplishing in classrooms. Fifty Web sites to support great teaching and learning are also included.
This timely handbook helps students and teachers connect content to real life through new resources and learning relationships that are available through technology. E-VENTURES, learning adventures powered by technology, will provide practical lesson ideas. Featured real-life stories demonstrate not only what is possible but also what technology is already accomplishing in classrooms. Fifty Web sites to support great teaching and learning are also included.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57517-372-6 (9781575173726)
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Person
Alan November began his education career as a science and math teacher and a residential dorm counselor on an island reform school in Boston Harbor. November went on as a teacher and administrator in the Boston Public Schools, Lexington and Wellesley (Massachusetts) Public Schools, and the Glenbrook High Schools in Illinois. He has also taught in the graduate schools of education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Seton Hall in New Jersey. He was the cofounder of the Institute for Education Leadership and Technology at Stanford University. He has presented in all 50 states, every province of Canada, across Europe, Asia, Central America, and South Africa. He is most proud of being named one of the first Christa McAuliffe Educators in the United States. November is the author of the best-selling book Empowering Students With Technology. Each July, November leads the international Building Learning Communities summer conference near Boston.
Content
Preface
Introduction
1. Teaching and Learning the Structure of Information
Information Literacy: A New Basic Skill
MAPping the Internet: Meta-Web Information, Author, and Purpose
Confusing Technical Mastery with Critical Thinking
Blocking Versus Access
Professional Growith Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 1
2. Empowering Learning by Expanding Relationships
Planning for Learning (Instead of Technology)
The Underused Fax Machine
Video Conferencing
E-mail in a Cultural Context
Teacher-Created Web Sites
Publishing Student Work on the Webq
Professional Growth Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 2
3. Emerging Roles Within the Knowledge Community
Teachers as Digital Immigrants
Help and Support in Your Own Backyard
Benchmarking Educational Practice to the Knowledge Community
Shifting Control
Raising Expectations: Students as Knowledge Producers
Managing Fear
Professional Growth Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 3
4. Accessing Primary Sources to Enhance Critical Thinking
Using Primary Sources
Teaching the Skills to Assess Primary Sources
Professional Growth Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 4
5. Building Knowledge Without Boundaries: Online Learning
Online Learning
Pioneers on the Digital Frontier
Changing Roles and Interactions
Students Involved in Online Learning
Teachers Invloved in Online Learning
Individual Courses: Supporting Learning
Building on Exceptional Programs
Professional Growth Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 5
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. Teaching and Learning the Structure of Information
Information Literacy: A New Basic Skill
MAPping the Internet: Meta-Web Information, Author, and Purpose
Confusing Technical Mastery with Critical Thinking
Blocking Versus Access
Professional Growith Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 1
2. Empowering Learning by Expanding Relationships
Planning for Learning (Instead of Technology)
The Underused Fax Machine
Video Conferencing
E-mail in a Cultural Context
Teacher-Created Web Sites
Publishing Student Work on the Webq
Professional Growth Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 2
3. Emerging Roles Within the Knowledge Community
Teachers as Digital Immigrants
Help and Support in Your Own Backyard
Benchmarking Educational Practice to the Knowledge Community
Shifting Control
Raising Expectations: Students as Knowledge Producers
Managing Fear
Professional Growth Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 3
4. Accessing Primary Sources to Enhance Critical Thinking
Using Primary Sources
Teaching the Skills to Assess Primary Sources
Professional Growth Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 4
5. Building Knowledge Without Boundaries: Online Learning
Online Learning
Pioneers on the Digital Frontier
Changing Roles and Interactions
Students Involved in Online Learning
Teachers Invloved in Online Learning
Individual Courses: Supporting Learning
Building on Exceptional Programs
Professional Growth Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 5
Appendix
Bibliography
Index