Using Technology in Teaching - Softcover

Clyde, William; Delohery, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300103948 ISBN 13: 9780300103946

Verlag: YALE UNIV PR, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Down-to-earth advice for busy teachers on using technology to save time and improve instruction.

Computers can help teachers accomplish many of their tasks more efficiently and effectively, but how can a time-strapped teacher determine which pieces of technology are likely to be most helpful? This easy-to-read book offers useful guidance for real-world situations. Organized around specific instructional goals (improving student writing, promoting collaborative learning) and commonly encountered tasks (communicating with students between class, distributing course materials), the book shows teachers at all instructional levels when and how technology can help them meet everyday challenges.

Written in an anecdotal, non-technical style, the book and its accompanying CD-ROM cover how to use technology to:

communicate with students

distribute course materials

promote collaborative learning

learn through experience

clarify course objectives

improve student writing

develop student research skills

use assessment and feedback

collect course materials

identify plagiarism

and more

Teachers looking for tools to help them work better and more quickly will welcome this invaluable guide to the technology that will expedite their search.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William Clyde teaches finance and is dean of academic technology, and Andrew Delohery teaches English composition and is director of The Learning Center, both at Quinnipiac University.

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Using Technology in Teaching

By William Clyde Andrew Delohery

Yale University Press

Copyright © 2005 Yale University
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-300-10394-6

Contents

Acknowledgments............................................................................ixIntroduction...............................................................................xiChapter One: Communicating with Students..................................................1SCENARIO 1 Sending Information to Students Between Classes.................................2SCENARIO 2 Making Last-Minute Changes and Canceling Class Meetings.........................2SCENARIO 3 Leveraging the Value of Good Questions (and Answers)............................8SCENARIO 4 Students Contacting You Between Classes.........................................13SCENARIO 5 Students Submitting Work........................................................19Chapter Two: Distributing Course Materials to Students....................................25SCENARIO 1 Handing Out Your Syllabus.......................................................26SCENARIO 2 Adding Readings at the Last Minute..............................................39SCENARIO 3 Providing Access to Supplementary Material......................................41SCENARIO 4 Making Up Canceled Classes......................................................47SCENARIO 5 Distributing Graphics, Videos, and Audio Materials..............................50Chapter Three: Promoting Collaborative Learning...........................................54SCENARIO 1 Fostering and Extending In-Class Collaboration..................................55SCENARIO 2 Facilitating Work on Group Projects Outside of Class............................67SCENARIO 3 Building Networks of Collaboration for Learning from Peers......................70SCENARIO 4 Fostering Peer Feedback.........................................................74SCENARIO 5 Assessing and Managing Team Performance.........................................75Chapter Four: Helping Students Learn Through Experience...................................77SCENARIO 1 Experiencing Visual Environments................................................80SCENARIO 2 Experiencing Strategy...........................................................86SCENARIO 3 Experiencing Calculations.......................................................93SCENARIO 4 Experiencing Technology.........................................................97SCENARIO 5 Interacting with Experts and Practitioners......................................98Chapter Five: Clarifying Linkages Within Your Course......................................102SCENARIO 1 Linking the Mission Statement and Objectives....................................103SCENARIO 2 Linking Activities and Assessments to Objectives................................106SCENARIO 3 Linking Activities to One Another...............................................118SCENARIO 4 Linking Activities and Objectives to the Real World.............................121SCENARIO 5 Linking Activities and Objectives to Policies and Resources.....................124Chapter Six: Improving Student Writing....................................................129SCENARIO 1 Increasing Writing Opportunities................................................130SCENARIO 2 Evaluating Writing Assignments..................................................144SCENARIO 3 Collecting and Returning Writing Assignments....................................151SCENARIO 4 Identifying Plagiarism..........................................................151Chapter Seven: Developing Student Research Skills.........................................155SCENARIO 1 "I Can't Find Any/Enough Information"...........................................156SCENARIO 2 Poor Source Review..............................................................160SCENARIO 3 Encouraging Higher-Order Thinking...............................................166SCENARIO 4 Reviewing Progress..............................................................170SCENARIO 5 Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism...............................................173Chapter Eight: Using Assessment and Feedback to Improve Learning..........................176SCENARIO 1 Identifying Points of Student Confusion.........................................177SCENARIO 2 Teaching Students to Self- and Peer-Assess......................................180SCENARIO 3 Improving Student Presentations.................................................185SCENARIO 4 Assessing and Managing Team Performance.........................................188SCENARIO 5 Collecting Student Feedback on Course Activities................................188Chapter Nine: Gathering Course Learning Materials.........................................193SCENARIO 1 Identifying and Organizing Supplemental Resources...............................194SCENARIO 2 Student Access to Specific Resources............................................201SCENARIO 3 Practice Tests and Quizzes......................................................204SCENARIO 4 Supporting Learner-Centered Learning............................................208Appendix...................................................................................213Glossary...................................................................................217Notes......................................................................................225Index......................................................................................227

Chapter One

Communicating with Students

SCENARIO 1: Sending Information to Students Between Classes

You are watching television on a Friday night when a preview comes on for a program, airing on Sunday, that relates to topics you will discuss in class Monday morning. You would like your students to know about it so they may watch it.

SCENARIO 2: Making Last-Minute Changes and Canceling Class Meetings

It's 8 A.M. and you feel a stomach flu coming on (or your car won't start, or something else has come up). You feel certain you will not be able to make your 10 A.M. class and would like to let your students know-particularly those traveling to school just to take your class. You would also like to give them some projects to work on so that the day is not lost entirely.

SCENARIO 3: Leveraging the Value of Good Questions (and Answers)

A student comes to your office for clarification on an assignment, and you realize that the entire class would benefit from that discussion. You would like to make the student's questions and your answers available to everyone in the class.

SCENARIO 4: Students Contacting You Between Classes

You have a big exam coming up in your class. You expect several last-minute questions as your students prepare for the exam. Unfortunately, you must be at a conference the two days before the exam and will miss office hours both days.

SCENARIO 5: Students Submitting Work

One of your assignments is due at 5 P.M. Friday. You will not be in your office until Saturday morning, when you will pick up the assignments to grade over the weekend.

SCENARIO 1: Sending Information to Students Between Classes and SCENARIO 2: Making Last-Minute Changes and Canceling Class Meetings

Because the traditional and the technology solutions to these two scenarios are the same, we deal with them together.

TRADITIONAL SOLUTIONS

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: YALE UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0300103948
• ISBN 13: 9780300103946
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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