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Features

• Focus on how a learner uses technology for meaningful learning and how this informs instructional practices in the classroom through a constructivist approach.
• Readers learn to coach the learning of technology skills that encourage students to experiment with technologies, articulate their own beliefs, and construct, and co-construct ideas to build knowledge. 

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Table of Contents

Introduction

1. What is Meaningful Learning?

            How Does Technology Facilitate Learning?

Conclusion

Things to Think About

2. Investigating with Technologies

Information Gathering with Internet Resources  

Collecting Data with Mobile Technologies

Finding Opinions with Online Survey Tools

Summary

Things to Think About

3. Exploring with Technologies

Learning to Reason Causally

Hypothesizing with Microworlds

Experimenting with Simulations

Venturing into Games

Immersing into Virtual Worlds

Testing Ideas with Simulations

Summary

Things to Think About

4. Supporting Student Writing with Technology

Supporting writing organization and planning

Supporting presentation writing

Supporting creative writing with technology

supporting Collaborative writing with technology

Supporting Peer Feedback on Writing

Summary

Things to Think about

5. Modeling with Technologies

            Learning by Building Models

Modeling Knowledge with Concept Maps

Modeling Systems with Systems Dynamics Tools

Modeling Problems with Spreadsheets

Modeling Thinking with Expert Systems

Modeling Experiences with Databases

Why Build Models with Mindtools?

Summary

Things to Think About

6. Community Building with Technologies

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING WITH KNOWLEDGE FORUM

CO-CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE WITH WIKIS

FINDING COLLEAGUES WITH INTERACTIVE BLOGS

BUILDING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES WITH iEARN LEARNING CIRCLES/GLOBAL SCHOOLHOUSE/KIDLINK

BUILDING PROFESSIONAL TEACHER COMMUNITIES WITH TAPPED IN/TEACHERTALK

DISCUSSING INTERESTS WITH USENET/NETNEWS GROUPS

SUMMARY

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

7. Communicating with Technologies

EXCHANGING IDEAS ASYNCHRONOUSLY WITH DISCUSSION BOARDS

EXCHANGING IDEAS SYNCHRONOUSLY WITH INTERACTIVE CHATS AND MESSAGING

MAKING CONNECTIONS THROUGH VIDEOCONFERENCING

BROADCASTING WITH PODCASTS AND INTERNET RADIO

SUMMARY

Things to Think About

8. Designing and Constructing with Technologies

Learning By Designing In and Out of SchoolsDrawing Design Ideas with Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software

Testing Designs and Building Mental Models with Simulation SoftwareDeveloping Programming Skills While Designing in the Media ArtsComposing Music with Impromptu

Summing Up

Things To Think About

9. Visualizing with Technologies

What are Visualization Tools?

Visualizing Scientific Ideas with Computers

Visualizing Mathematical Ideas with Technologies

Visualizing With Digital Cameras and Mobile Phones

Visualizing With Video

Things to Think About

10. Assessing Learning with Technology

Assessing meaningful Learning: Authentic and Performance Assessment

Technology-Based Assessments

Assessing Growth over time with Electronic Portfolios

Assessing Performance with Technology-Based RUBRICS

Clicker Assessment Tools

Assessing Learning with Computer-Based Tests and surveys

Summary

Things to Think about

Epilogue: Implications of Learning With Technology

Courses

Instructional Media and Technology  [CORE]   (Instructional Technology)
Computers in Education  [CORE]   (Instructional Technology)

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• Meaningful Learning with Technology, 4/E
  Howland, Jonassen & Marra
  ©2012  |  Allyn & Bacon  |  Paper; 288 pp  |  Instock
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  Grounded in constructivist teachings, this popular text demonstrates how teachers can use technology to engage and support meaningful learning of their students.

   

  Organized around learning processes such as inquiring, experimenting, writing, modeling, community building, communicating, designing, visualizing, and assessing, Meaningful Learning with Technology, Fourth Edition, demonstrates for the reader how learners can use different technologies for meaningful learning. Numerous examples from teachers in K-12 classrooms, give readers a clear understanding of how technology can be used with different types of students, including expanded coverage of effective technology use with young learners.

  All chapters now present learning objectives as well as ISTE NETS for Students and 21^st Century Skills that may be met through the learning activities described.  The text is further strengthened by the inclusion of practical application with technologies that many teachers currently use; discussion of widely available web-based tools for learning and collaboration; and the addition of Assessing Meaningful Teaching and Learning rubrics which give readers a tool for reflecting on their practice. Each chapter extends learning by culminating with questions and issues for readers to think about.

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