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Book cover image of Teaching with Technology: Designing Opportunities to Learn (with InfoTrac) by Priscilla Norton

Authors: Priscilla Norton, Karin M. Wiburg
ISBN-13: 9780534603090, ISBN-10: 0534603092
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: 2nd Edition

Author Biography: Priscilla Norton

Book Synopsis

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.

Booknews

Norton (George Mason U.) and Wiburg (New Mexico State U.) present the second edition of this textbook for teachers and teacher trainees on how to design effective technology-based learning opportunities for today's students. New to the second edition is the FACTS Web-Based Design Tool, an online interactive environment supporting the transition from the design process presented in the text to designs of action which can be implemented in classrooms. For use in educational technology, curriculum and instruction courses. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	An Introductory Note to Readers	XI
Chapter 1	Today's Technological Challenges	1
	Socrates' Tale	2
	Technology's Place in Education	4
	Today's Technology Users	5
	Realizing Technology's Promise	9
	Chapter Ideas	14
Chapter 2	Designing Opportunities for Learning	17
	The Efficiency Model of Learning	20
	The Efficiency Model and Designs for Learning	21
	Integrated Learning Systems: A Case Study	24
	Questioning the Efficiency Model	27
	Learning in School and Learning Outside of School	28
	Rethinking the Design of Learning Opportunities: Two Important Ideas and an Educational Dilemma	29
	A View of Intelligence	30
	Constructivist Learning	32
	An Educational Dilemma	34
	Six Guiding Questions	36
	Chapter Ideas	37
Chapter 3	The FACTS of Design	42
	The Teacher as Designer	43
	The FACTS of Design	46
	What Foundations of Learning Do Today's Students Most Need to Learn?	46
	What Activities Should Designers Choose to Ensure that Students Become Actively Engaged in Learning Through Construction?	48
	What Contents, Ideas, and/or Concepts Afford a Context for Student Learning?	49
	What Tools Might a Designer Choose to Best Support and Enhance Student Learning?	51
	What System of Assessment Might a Designer Construct to Appropriately Assess Student Learning?	60
	How Might Learning Environments be Constructed to Complement the Overall Learning Design?	61
	The FACTS Web-Based Design Tool	62
	Design Mentors	63
	Design Challenges	64
	Design Examples	65
	Create Your Own Design	65
	Chapter Ideas	65
Chapter 4	Designs for Knowledge	69
	Ways of Knowing	71
	Learning and the Disciplines	72
	Knowledge of Structure and Process: Content as Vehicle	73
	Learning about Structures	74
	Learning about Processes: Doing the Disciplines	76
	Discourse and The Disciplines	80
	Discourse and the Electronic Technologies	82
	Expository Discourse and the Disciplines	83
	Combining Expository Discourse and Teaching Disciplinary Structures	84
	Narrative Discourse and the Disciplines	88
	Narrative Discourse and Learning Disciplinary Structures	89
	Chapter Ideas	95
Chapter 5	Designs for Problem Solving	97
	Inside the Black Box	99
	Memory	101
	Information Extending Processes	105
	Information Rearranging Processes	107
	Thinking about Thinking: Metacognition	110
	Putting the Problem at the Center	114
	Anchored Instruction	114
	Problem-Based Learning	116
	Solving Content-Specific Problems: The ABCS of Activity	119
	A is for Authentic Activities	120
	B is for Building Knowledge Activities	121
	C is for Constructing Activities	124
	S is for Sharing Activities	125
	Chapter Ideas	127
Chapter 6	Designs for Literacy	132
	Defining Literacy	133
	Literacy at the Denotative Level	135
	Literacy at the Connotative Level	136
	An Expanded Definition of Literacy	137
	Designing Opportunities to Learn Literacy	137
	Literacy as Symbolic Competence	138
	Literacy as Cognitive Strategies	141
	Literacy and Discourse Forms	146
	Communicating with Symbols	152
	Chapter Ideas	155
Chapter 7	Designs for Using Information	157
	The Electronic Study	158
	Today's Information Environment	160
	The Information Explosion and Information Overload	161
	Educators' Challenge	163
	Meeting the Challenge: Two Considerations	164
	Becoming Information Users--SSCC	166
	Searching for Information	168
	Sorting and Judging Information	170
	Creating and Communicating	174
	Bringing It All Together	179
	WebQuests	179
	Information and the Virtual Classroom	187
	Chapter Ideas	189
Chapter 8	Designs for Community	192
	Communities of Learners	193
	Attributes of Communities	194
	Cognition and Community	195
	Technology in Diverse Classrooms	196
	Students of Lower Socioeconomic Status	198
	Minority Students	198
	Questions of Equity	198
	Tapping Funds of Knowledge	199
	Learning in Collaborative and Cooperative Communities	202
	Cooperative Learning	203
	Collaborative Learning	205
	Learning in Democratic Communities	207
	Learning in Virtual Communities	211
	Designing Virtual Online Learning Communities	211
	Chapter Ideas	215
Chapter 9	Designing Systems of Assessment	219
	The Evaluation of an Innovation	220
	Traditional Assessment Practices	222
	The Alternative Assessment Movement	224
	Aligning Instruction, Curriculum, and Assessment	225
	Putting Teachers at the Center of Assessment	226
	Alternative Assessment Strategies	227
	Using Rubrics for Assessment	227
	Using Portfolios for Assessment	234
	Creating Electronic Portfolios	236
	Expanding Assessment Audiences	241
	Creating New Knowledge and Publishing Students' Work	244
	Technology and Alternative Assessment	245
	Recording and Observing Process	245
	New Interpretive Tools	246
	Chapter Ideas	248
Chapter 10	Designing Learning Environments	251
	Learning Environments Are Instructional Strategies	252
	Constructing Learning Environments	254
	Designing Places to Learn	256
	Intellectual Learning Environments	259
	Selecting Appropriate Intellectual Learning Environments	262
	The Environment as a Climate of Values	265
	The Values Environment	266
	Exploring Three Schoolwide Learning Environments	267
	Chapter Ideas	271
	Bibliography	273
	Index	289