Preparing to Use Technology: A Practical Guide to Curriculum Integration - Softcover

Blanche, O'Bannon; Kathleen, Puckett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0135084210 ISBN 13: 9780135084212

Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2010

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Book by OBannon Blanche W Puckett Kathleen

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Preparing to Use Technology is a concise and comprehensive guide to the technology applications that are essential skills in the classrooms of today. This text features a basic understanding of current software applications, adaptations for special learners, and ideas for curriculum integration. Instructors will find a user-friendly format with an appropriate balance of directive skill building activities and exploration. Each chapter focuses on a technology concept and includes 1) research frameworks 2) basics which includes how teachers as well as students can use the technology in teaching and learning 3) provides a testimonial from a technology using teacher that has implemented lessons successfully, 4) offers example "curriculum connections" and shares ways to adapt for special learners with each. The entire text is aligned with the revised NETS *S and NETS*T standards. Prospective teachers, as well as teachers who want to use technology, will find the style is direct and easy to follow.

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Known for its practical suggestions for integrating technology into the content areas, Preparing to Use Technology is a concise yet comprehensive guide to the technology applications that are essential skills in today's classrooms. This text provides teachers with a basic understanding of current software applications, adaptations for special learners, and ideas for curriculum integration without extensive discussion of history and foundations of technology. A user-friendly format combined with an appropriate balance of directive skill-building activities and exploration prepares teachers to take what they are learning directly into the classroom.

 

The second edition provides teachers with the latest content and resources to take into their classroom including:

• New coverage of Web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used to impact learning (Ch. 5).
• Content aligned with the revised professional technology standards for Teachers (ISTE NETS-T) and Students (ISTE NETS-S)
• Updated with the revised Bloom's taxonomy
• Increased assessment coverage addresses the issues of assessment in today's teaching climate and what role technology has to play (Ch. 1).
• Thoroughly updated with new research throughout providing new teachers with the most current research-based methods and strategies to take into their classroom.
• Updated! “Voices from the Classroom” features in every chapter provide personal accounts of technology activities so that students can see how this material will work for them.
• Updated! “Curriculum Connections” offer successful, class-tested lessons for technology integration across content areas with links to the full lessons.  These mini-lessons will make it easy for students to use technology in their classes.
• On the Web text feature provides an annotated list of popular websites of particular importance to the chapter topic. Linking directly to these sites is made possible through the On the Web virtual site located at the companion site of the book (www.pearsonhighered.com/obannon2e). New to this edition's website users can download directions for projects, rubrics, chapter slideshows and artifacts.

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• Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0135084210
• ISBN 13: 9780135084212
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312