Standards-Based Lessons for Tech-Savvy Students: A Multiple Intelligences Approach »

Build a space colony, become a time traveler, or be elected president! The possibilities are endless when your students are ready for the Information Age. Adapt and use these teaching units, based on the work of Howard Gardner, Heidi Hays-Jacobs, and Grant Wiggins, to develop instructionally sound lessons for students.

Susan Allen - VOYA

Those who found McKenzie's Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology (International Society for Technology in Education, 2002) thought provoking and practical will feel the same about his new work. Time is taken to discuss how reform best takes place in the school. Readers are then charmed by a number of educators who recount their "moments of wonder" when they really learned something in a remarkable way. These beginning sections lead into a discussion of Levels of Technology integration (LoTi) as per Dr. Chris Moersch and their place within the integration framework. Readers are then led step-by-step through a unit design that is an amalgam of Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Dr. Howard Gardner, Grant Wiggins, and Roger Taylor with McKenzie thrown in. From here readers are presented with seven chapters, each being a thematic unit designed to be replicated and adapted. There are units for elementary schools, such as "Build a Classroom Space Colony"; middle school, such as " Become Time Travelers"; or high school, such as "Exploring the Future of Science." Each has the standards that are addressed, the big idea, need-to-know questions, learning tasks, resources, and assessments. The final chapter is devoted to assessment, especially rubric building. This resource has a good overview of change and technology as an integration tool. If one is seeking well-designed, preplanned, thematic lessons, this one is the right book. 2004, Linworth, 160p.; Index. Charts. Source Notes., Ages adult professional.