Teaching with Technology Designing Opportunities to Learn (with InfoTrac)

Name: Teaching with Technology Designing Opportunities to Learn (with InfoTrac)
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ISBN: 9780534603090

ISBN-10: 0534603092

ISBN-13: 9780534603090

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Priscilla Norton, Karin M. Wiburg

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The distinctive characteristic of TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY, Second Edition is its clear correlation between theory and practice. This text focuses on ways to use technology to foster learning in K-12 classrooms, instead of presenting the mechanics of computer operation. Norton and Wiburg's chapters are not based on computer applications; they are based instead on how technology can support student acquisition of literacy, content knowledge, problem-solving, participating in communities, and student utilization of information and systems of assessment.

Book details

List price: $171.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 7/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Dr. Karin M. Wiburg is Associate Dean for Research at New Mexico State University and continues to spend one quarter of her time involved in research related to mathematics education and closing the achievement gap on the border She was a professor of curriculum and learning technologies in the C&I Department in the College of Education (COE) at NMSU since 1994. Prior to that she taught in higher education in California and served as Coordinator of the Technology Consortium at the San Diego county office. She also spent 13 years as a teacher and administrator in the Seattle Public Schools in areas related to math, technology and reading. nbsp; nbsp;She has been involved in distance…



An Introductory Note to Readers



Today's Technological Challenges


Socrates' Tale


Technology's Place in Education


Today's Technology Users


Realizing Technology's Promise


Chapter Ideas



Designing Opportunities for Learning


The Efficiency Model of Learning


The Efficiency Model and Designs for Learning


Integrated Learning Systems: A Case Study


Questioning the Efficiency Model


Learning in School and Learning Outside of School


Rethinking the Design of Learning Opportunities: Two Important Ideas and an Educational Dilemma


A View of Intelligence


Constructivist Learning


An Educational Dilemma


Six Guiding Questions


Chapter Ideas



The FACTS of Design


The Teacher as Designer


The FACTS of Design


What Foundations of Learning Do Today's Students Most Need to Learn?


What Activities Should Designers Choose to Ensure that Students Become Actively Engaged in Learning Through Construction?


What Contents, Ideas, and/or Concepts Afford a Context for Student Learning?


What Tools Might a Designer Choose to Best Support and Enhance Student Learning?


What System of Assessment Might a Designer Construct to Appropriately Assess Student Learning?


How Might Learning Environments be Constructed to Complement the Overall Learning Design?


The FACTS Web-Based Design Tool


Design Mentors


Design Challenges


Design Examples


Create Your Own Design


Chapter Ideas



Designs for Knowledge


Ways of Knowing


Learning and the Disciplines


Knowledge of Structure and Process: Content as Vehicle


Learning about Structures


Learning about Processes: Doing the Disciplines


Discourse and The Disciplines


Discourse and the Electronic Technologies


Expository Discourse and the Disciplines


Combining Expository Discourse and Teaching Disciplinary Structures


Narrative Discourse and the Disciplines


Narrative Discourse and Learning Disciplinary Structures


Chapter Ideas



Designs for Problem Solving


Inside the Black Box


Memory


Information Extending Processes


Information Rearranging Processes


Thinking about Thinking: Metacognition


Putting the Problem at the Center


Anchored Instruction


Problem-Based Learning


Solving Content-Specific Problems: The ABCS of Activity


A is for Authentic Activities


B is for Building Knowledge Activities


C is for Constructing Activities


S is for Sharing Activities


Chapter Ideas



Designs for Literacy


Defining Literacy


Literacy at the Denotative Level


Literacy at the Connotative Level


An Expanded Definition of Literacy


Designing Opportunities to Learn Literacy


Literacy as Symbolic Competence


Literacy as Cognitive Strategies


Literacy and Discourse Forms


Communicating with Symbols


Chapter Ideas



Designs for Using Information


The Electronic Study


Today's Information Environment


The Information Explosion and Information Overload


Educators' Challenge


Meeting the Challenge: Two Considerations


Becoming Information Users--SSCC


Searching for Information


Sorting and Judging Information


Creating and Communicating


Bringing It All Together


WebQuests


Information and the Virtual Classroom


Chapter Ideas



Designs for Community


Communities of Learners


Attributes of Communities


Cognition and Community


Technology in Diverse Classrooms


Students of Lower Socioeconomic Status


Minority Students


Questions of Equity


Tapping Funds of Knowledge


Learning in Collaborative and Cooperative Communities


Cooperative Learning


Collaborative Learning


Learning in Democratic Communities


Learning in Virtual Communities


Designing Virtual Online Learning Communities


Chapter Ideas



Designing Systems of Assessment


The Evaluation of an Innovation


Traditional Assessment Practices


The Alternative Assessment Movement


Aligning Instruction, Curriculum, and Assessment


Putting Teachers at the Center of Assessment


Alternative Assessment Strategies


Using Rubrics for Assessment


Using Portfolios for Assessment


Creating Electronic Portfolios


Expanding Assessment Audiences


Creating New Knowledge and Publishing Students' Work


Technology and Alternative Assessment


Recording and Observing Process


New Interpretive Tools


Chapter Ideas



Designing Learning Environments


Learning Environments Are Instructional Strategies


Constructing Learning Environments


Designing Places to Learn


Intellectual Learning Environments


Selecting Appropriate Intellectual Learning Environments


The Environment as a Climate of Values


The Values Environment


Exploring Three Schoolwide Learning Environments


Chapter Ideas


Bibliography


Index