61 Cooperative Learning Activities for Computer Classrooms
61 Cooperative Learning Activities for Computer Classrooms

Author: Rachel Anderson

Publisher: Walch Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780825128387

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This is a collection of 61 different computer activities for a middle-school computer program for use in the classroom. There are exciting and challenging activities that require the students to work together. The activities are designed to work on any computer: PC, Macintosh or Apple II. Activities cover the essential computer areas of word processing, database, spreadsheet, drawing and painting, desktop publishing, and programming. Also covered are CD-ROM, educational software, telecommunications, and multimedia presentation software.

Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom
Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom

Author: Timothy D. Green

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1412915740

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"I have not seen a more teacher-friendly resource for using the Web in the classroom. The authors took both novices and experts into consideration. A must-have in every school." a?Elizabeth Alvarez, Math and Science Coach Chicago Public Schools, IL "A user-friendly tool on many levels. I would recommend this book to media specialists, instructional technology teachers, and district coordinators for both content and technology." a?April DeGennaro, Gifted Education Teacher Peeples Elementary School, Fayetteville, GA Translate Web technology into practical applications for the daily curriculum! Designed for novices and experienced users, this comprehensive guide includes all the need-to-know aspects of using the World Wide Web to support student learning. Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom covers the language of the Web, describes Web-editing software, and shows how to use Web tools that offer unique learning opportunities for students. This book examines issues of student safety, appropriate "netiquette," and copyright and other legal considerations and provides field-tested strategies, examples, and reproducibles to help teachers create powerful learning opportunities. Educators will be able to meet ISTE NETS technology and content standards as they: Design and build Web sites Help students develop their own Internet projects Evaluate and manage Web projects Featuring a list of key terms in each chapter, this timely resource will motivate your students and help make technology a seamless part of your classroom instruction.

Completing the Computer Puzzle
Completing the Computer Puzzle

Author: Suzanne Thouvenelle

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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This unique book connects solid knowledge of early education principles with technical computer experiences, emphasizing the role of the teacher and her responsibility for meaningful integration of computer technology in the early childhood classroom. In an easy-to-read format, this book combines an informal style with clear graphics, diagrams, and photographs to enhance every learner's understanding of the critical issues in using computers with young children. Themes range from how to use computers, to supporting brain-based learning, to identifying software that provides electronic portfolios for authentic assessment. Other subjects include choosing appropriate hardware, establishing and introducing classroom computer centers, integrating computers with curriculum, common computer myths, involving parents, and using the Internet. Early childhood educators, teachers, school administrators, and parents.

Language, Classrooms and Computers
Language, Classrooms and Computers

Author: Peter Scrimshaw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1134885407

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The contributors use teachers' accounts together with their own research to examine how the use of computers in school can affect the ways in which children learn and teachers teach.

Computers and Talk in the Primary Classroom
Computers and Talk in the Primary Classroom

Author: Rupert Wegerif

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781853593956

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This text looks at how computers are being used in primary classrooms and how they could be used better. Its three sections focus upon: how do we investigate learning through talk around computers? What affects the quality of group work around computers? What can teachers do to improve this?

Students’ Collaborative Problem Solving in Mathematics Classrooms
Students’ Collaborative Problem Solving in Mathematics Classrooms

Author: Yiming Cao

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-02-04

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 9819973864

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This open access book provides key insights into the social fundamentals of learning and indications of social interactive modes conducive and restrictive of that learning in China. Combining theoretical and technical advances in an innovative research design, this book focuses on collaborative problem solving in mathematics to increase the visibility of social interactions in teachers’ designing, students’ learning and teachers’ instructional intervention. It also explores students’ cognitive and social interaction as well as teacher intervention in students’ group collaboration.

Creative Education, Teaching and Learning
Creative Education, Teaching and Learning

Author: Gayle Brewer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-22

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1137402148

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Educators and education policy has increasingly acknowledged the value of creativity and creative approaches to education in particular. This book highlights a range of innovative teaching techniques successfully employed by teachers from a range of disciplines and education levels in order to share knowledge regarding creative education.