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TechTactics: Instructional Models for Educational Computing 1/e
Carolyn Thorsen
Published July 2002 by Allyn & Bacon
Copyright 2003, 281 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-205-33594-2
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Summary

KEY BENEFITS: This book describes the major educational computer applications and provides methods for using computer tools effectively in the teaching/learning process. KEY TOPICS: The author focuses on the word processor, database, spreadsheet, Internet, and hypermedia software, tools that all classrooms with computers have. The book is independent of hardware x equally applicable to Macs or PCs x and speaks to methods that apply across grade levels and disciplines. The book has been extensively class tested and written with a view of what will work for teachers. Many helpful models, lesson plans, skill x building tips and activities are included to allow students to pick up this book and put it to use in the classroom right away. MARKET: For anyone interested in computer education, computer-based instructional design, professional development seminars.

Features

  • Unique “Virtual Field Trips” in several chapters show readers what works and doesn't work in a real-life setting.
  • Every learning model is evaluated against Bloom's Taxonomy so that readers can see how assignments with a computer can be connected to a learning outcome.
  • Throughout the text, the learning models in use are applied across content areas and grade levels, providing wide application for many levels of teaching.
  • Throughout the text, activities called “Checking Your Understanding” prompt students to use higher-order thinking skills to analyze problems and topics discussed in the text.
  • Lists of computer skills that students must have to use the models are detailed in many chapters so that students can work ahead to acquire needed computer skills prior to applying them in the classroom.
  • Margin notes, boxes, and appendices provide additional resources for students.
  • Extensive and hard-to-find references to data sources on the Internet provide raw material for students to apply as they learn to use databases and spreadsheets (Chs. 12 & 13).
Table of Contents

I. A STARTING POINT.

 1. Computers in Classrooms.

 2. An Introduction to Computers and the Teaching and Learning Process.

II. THE INTERNET: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND COMMUNICATION.

 3. Information Retrieval.

 4. E-mail and Discussion Boards.

III. DISPLAYING INFORMATION.

 5. Presentation Software.

 6. Graphic and Interface Design for Computers.

 7. Outlines, Idea Maps, and Storyboards.

 8. Evaluation of Student Presentations.

 9. Educational Applications of Word Processing.

IV. ANALYZING DATA WITH DATABASES AND SPREADSHEETS.

10. Databases—What They Are for and How They Work.

11. Building a Database-Supported Lesson.

12. Acquiring Data.

13. Using Spreadsheets to Think About Numbers.

Appendix A: Your Network.

Appendix B: File Management.

Appendix C: Synchronous Internet Communication: Chat and Internet Conferencing and Chat.

Appendix D: Concept Maps.

Appendix E: Sample Database for an English Class.



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