Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning, Fifth Edition, provides a unique, inviting approach to technology, with an emphasis on meaningful teacher and student learning with technology. It provides future K-12 classroom teachers with the essential information and motivation to use technology as an everyday tool with an abundance of authentic student projects. Highlighting the important balance between practical applications and theoretical issues, the new edition integrates video cases accessible through the Online Study Center to provide actual classroom situations for you to observe. Book jacket.

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Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning provides a unique, non-threatening approach to technology. It includes an abundance of authentic student projects and provides K–12 classroom teachers with essential information on how to use technology as an everyday tool. The Third Edition focuses on emergent technology information and strengthens its hallmark focus on cognitive learning. New coverage includes updated information on the Internet, voice recognition technology, Internet 2, and the use of digital cameras for video projects. Coverage of standards such as ISTE and AECT gives teachers basic understanding of what standards are and how they will impact teaching.

Many school districts are discovering that providing computer technology and using technology to improve student learning are two very different things. In this book, national experts use concrete examples to describe specific knowledge, beliefs, and strategies that will enable teachers and district leaders to support meaningful learning using technology. Chapters examine the intersection between course content, types of technology, and the supports and professional development required to effectively implement technology in the K–12 classroom. This authoritative volume: explores how technology can contribute to meaningful learning, achieving deep understanding of complex ideas that are relevant to students' lives; chronicles the effectiveness of specific technology-based curricula in the sciences and social studies, with a focus on history; and suggests models and approaches for teacher professional development, including a - Meaningful Learning Toolbox- where teachers can co-author web-based curriculum units.

Meaningful Online Learning explores the design and facilitation of high-quality online learning experiences and outcomes through the integration of theory-based instructional strategies, learning activities, and proven educational technologies. Building on the authors’ years of synthesized research and expertise, this textbook prepares instructors in training to create, deliver, and evaluate learner-centered online pedagogies. Pre- and in-service K–12 teachers, higher education faculty, and instructional designers in private, corporate, or government settings will find a comprehensive approach and support system for their design efforts.

Updated and streamlined for easier use, TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE: A STANDARDS-BASED APPROACH, 2E, International Edition equips readers with the knowledge, creative and critical thinking skills, and confidence needed to become "self-directed learners" who can successfully navigate the constantly changing environment of technology integration in the classroom. Using the principles of self-directed learning as its foundation, the book aims to help readers learn to evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning. The first educational technology book organized around the 2008 National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), this standards-based approach provides the framework for developing, modeling, and teaching the skills and knowledge necessary for integrating technology in authentic teaching and learning. An end-of-book supplement provides examples of technology integration in practice within specific content areas, guided by the national standards that apply to each content domain.