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Changing How We Teach and Learn With Handheld Computers

By: Carolyn Staudt

Foreword by Alan November

Create a dynamic, interactive environment that extends beyond the classroom!In this digital era, how can educators seamlessly incorporate technology into everyday classroom use? The economical, portable solution is handheld and other portable technologies. Handheld devices are already a part of the student's world. Now educators can embrace this technology and create a powerful learning environment. This book discusses the rationale for handhelds in today's learning environments and gives educators practical applications employing this technology through:

  • Surefire learning activities in all content areas
  • Resources for downloading student friendly software
  • Beaming and data sharing tips
  • Step-by-step processes for manipulating and displaying data
  • Field knowledge from classrooms already employing handhelds

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9780761939962
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2004
  • Page Count: 184
  • Publication date: February 08, 2005

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Description

Description

"Crystal clear examples that are rich in content and aligned to standards...from a leading expert in the field."
Alan November
Author and Consultant

Create a dynamic, interactive environment that extends beyond the classroom!

In this digital era, how can educators seamlessly incorporate technology into everyday classroom use? What tools will empower students, promote digital equity, and extend thoughtful learning? The economical solution is handheld and other portable technologies. In this resource, educators learn how to build learning experiences that use technology to support thinking, data analysis, and information retrieval and sharing for standards-linked learning both in and beyond the classroom.

Changing How We Teach and Learn With Handheld Computers shows how handheld computing can broaden the locales and communities in which students can grow in academic understanding. These tools enable students to collaborate and network while promoting the extension of learning beyond the time and space of a classroom.

Carolyn Staudt, a leading expert in technology integration, gives educators practical applications through:

  • Surefire learning activities in all content areas
  • Resources for downloading student-friendly software
  • Beaming and data sharing tips
  • Step-by-step processes for manipulating and displaying data
  • Field knowledge from classrooms already employing handhelds

Handheld devices are already a part of the students' world. Now educators can embrace this technology and create a powerful learning environment that leaves no student behind.


Key features

  • Focuses on the next generation of leaner, less expensive technology for education
  • Demonstrates how to use handhelds for high levels of engagement and critical thinking
  • Lights a path to equity across the digital divide
  • Shows how to use handhelds to involve families in learning
  • High profile author combines practicality with NSF developed research and classroom applications
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Carolyn Staudt

Carolyn Staudt is a curriculum designer for technology- and Internet-based projects, including Technology Enhanced Elementary and Middle School Science (TEEMSS 1 & 2), JASON Academy, Modeling Across the Curriculum, Models and Data, Mobile Inquiry Computing, Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT), Science Learning in Context (SliC), Virtual High School, Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), Kids as Global Scientists (KGS), and NetAdventure at the Concord Consortium. She is especially intrigued with allowing students to collect real-time data with portable sensors and probes attached to desktop and handheld computers. She has designed professional development that includes implementation of technology into the classroom curriculum, teacher and student utilization of existing software, design of tailored activities, and manipulation of software up to, and including, scripting as vice president of KidSolve, Inc. She has 20 years of experience teaching science and math, including physics, chemistry, geoscience, and space science. She holds a master’s of education in Curriculum and Instruction in Science from Kent State University. She was a Christa McAuliffe Fellow in 1990 and the Fairlawn, Ohio, Citizen of the Year in 1991.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

About the Author

Foreword

1. Handheld Computers as Educational Tools

2. Organizing and Planning

Daily Log

Around the World in Eight Days

Displaying Student Models

3. Referencing Information

Spelling Bee

Chemical Periodicity

Starry Sky

4. Data Gathering

Surveying Homework Practices

Fitness for Life

The Pickle Pond Study

5. Manipulating and Displaying Data

Frequent Sines

Rate of Change

Field Guide

6. Communicating and Collaborating

Viking Times Project

What If Builder

Continuous Water Cycle

7. Individual Learning and Assessment

Impacting the World's Resources

Team Check List

Concept Journaling

8. Empowering Teachers

References References

Bibliography

Index

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