Education and Technology
Subtitle: Reflections on Computing in Classrooms (Jossey Bass Education Series)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; Jossey-Bass Publishers
Published: July 12, 1996
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780787902384
Subjects: Educational resources & technology; Education / Teaching; Computer-Aided Instruction (General); United States; Education; General; Educational Software; Education / Administration; Aids & Devices; Computer-assisted instruction; Educational technology
First sentence: For the past ten years, Apple Computer, Inc., in partnership with several school districts, has sponsored a research and development project called Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT).
Description: Education and Technology commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) Project. In 1985, Apple Computer, Inc., in partnership with a handful of far-flung school districts, launched ACOT to carry out long-term research and development on productive uses of technology in schools. From the outset, ACOT worked in real classrooms with real teachers and real students. The contributors to this volume, most of whom have had an association with ACOT, are veterans in studying and using technology in schools. While recognizing that technology is not a panacea for education's problems, they shed light on ways in which it can serve as a powerful catalyst for student learning.
Table of contents: title: Part One: Learning in the age of technology.; title: The Imperative to change our schools / David C. Dwyer; title: Dilemmas / Jan Hawkins; title: Whither technology and schools? Collected thoughts on the last and next quarter centuries / Allan Collins; title: Hope and joy in a rational world: kids, learning, and computers / Kristina Hooper Woolsey; title: Toward an ACOT of tomorrow / Decker F. Walker; title: Part Two: Tools, tasks, teaching, and student learning.; title: Learning to compute and computing to learn / Charles Fisher; title: The Role of new technologies in designing mathematics education / Jere Confrey; title: Reflections on computer-supported writing / D. Midian Kurland; title: Redefining computer appropriation: a five-year study of ACOT students / Robert J. Tierney; title: Does technology work in schools? Why evaluation cannot tell the full story / Eva L. Baker, Joan L. Herman, Maryl Gearhart; title: New technologies, new literacies, new problems / Brian Reilly; title: The Image processing for teaching project / Richard Greenberg; title: Part Three: Engaging teachers on the road ahead.; title: Developing and spreading accomplished teaching: policy lessons from a unique partnership / Jane L. David; title: In the midst of change / Robert A. Carpenter; title: Conversation: an essential element of teacher development / Keith Yocam; title: Teacher change in technology-rich classrooms / Judith Haymore Sandholtz, Cathy Ringstaff