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Empowering Students With Technology

Second Edition
By: Alan November

Fifty Web sites, lesson ideas, new resources, and real-life examples help educators use technology to expand classroom experiences and strengthen students’ critical thinking, research, and problem-solving skills.

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412974257
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2009
Page Count: 136
Publication date: October 18, 2012

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Expand classroom experiences and spark student excitement with learning adventures powered by technology!

Written by an internationally recognized expert in the field, this second edition of the bestseller provides educators with practical strategies for using technology to "break down" classroom walls and prepare all students to succeed in a digital world.

Making the case for technology's capacity to improve school performance and create communities of best practice, the book demonstrates how appropriate use of computer and Internet technologies enhances students' critical thinking, research, and problem-solving skills. Equally important, informed use of technology can level the learning field for disadvantaged students and allow children who are disabled to participate more fully in mainstream education.

Offering more than 50 Web sites, as well as new resources, realistic lesson ideas, sample activities, more information about online learning, and real-world examples, this timely revision examines:

Information literacy
Learning in a globally connected community
Increased access to information
Applications for digital cameras, fax machines, cell phones, and more
The relationship between technology expenditures and student achievement

Complete with a section on navigating government archives online, this updated edition of Empowering Students With Technology helps students connect instructional content to real life and facilitates their development as independent and collaborative learners.

Key features

Emphasizes the importance of helping students gain the research skills neccessary for solving "real world" problems and inquiring about topics and issues that interest them
Includes a section on how to navigate government archives online
Offers strategies teachers can use to help stduents work independently on the Web
Discusses the relationship between technology expenditures and student achievement
Goes beyond basic computer and Internet technologies to examine classroom uses for digital cameras, fax machines, cell phones, and more
Includes numerous sample activites and Web sites to visit for further resources

Author(s)

Alan November

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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 Growth Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 1

2. Empowering Learning by Expanding Relationships

Planning for Learning (Instead of Technology)

Revisiting the Role of the Family

E-mail in a Cultural Context

Teacher-Created Web Sites

Publishing Student Work on the Web

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. Online Learning

Pioneers on the Digital Frontier

Changing Roles and Interactions

Students Involved in Online Learning

Teachers Involved in Online Learning

Individual Courses: Supporting Learning

Professional Growth Opportunity: Relate and Reflect on Chapter 5

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

“Alan November provides an exceptional lens that clarifies the confusion in the field. Educators know the significance and the impact of technology on education, but many don’t understand how to make good use of technology to further student learning. November presents both the theoretical and practical in such a compelling way that it makes me want to remind educators that we cannot keep doing what we have always done—not with the possibilities that technology opens for us!”

Bena Kallick, Educational Consultant

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