Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments: Advancements in Learning
Title | Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments: Advancements in Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Ertl, Bernhard |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2010-05-31 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1615209387 |
"This book details practices of and technologies for e-collaborative knowledge construction, providing insights in the issue of how technologies can bring advancements for learning"--Provided by publisher.
Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments
Title | Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments PDF eBook |
Author | Bernhard Ertl |
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Release | 2010 |
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"This book details practices of and technologies for e-collaborative knowledge construction, providing insights in the issue of how technologies can bring advancements for learning"--Provided by publisher.
E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction: Learning from Computer-Supported and Virtual Environments
Title | E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction: Learning from Computer-Supported and Virtual Environments PDF eBook |
Author | Ertl, Bernhard |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2010-01-31 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1615207309 |
"This book presents best practice environments to implement e-collaborative knowledge construction, providing psychological and technical background information about issues present in such scenarios and presents methods to improve online learning environments"--Provided by publisher.
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
Title | National Educational Technology Standards for Students PDF eBook |
Author | International Society for Technology in Education |
Publisher | ISTE (Interntl Soc Tech Educ |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9781564842374 |
This booklet includes the full text of the ISTE Standards for Students, along with the Essential Conditions, profiles and scenarios.
Learning in Information-Rich Environments
Title | Learning in Information-Rich Environments PDF eBook |
Author | Delia Neuman |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2011-03-31 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1441905790 |
The amount and range of information available to today’s students—and indeed to all learners—is unprecedented. Phrases like “the information revolution”, “the information (or knowledge) society”, and “the knowledge economy” underscore the truism that our society has been transformed by virtually instantaneous access to virtually unlimited information. Thomas Friedman tells us that “The World Is Flat” and that we must devise new political and economic understandings based on the ceaseless communication of information from all corners of the world. The Bush administration tells us that information relating to the “war on terrorism” is so critical that we must allow new kinds of surveillance to keep society safe. Teenage subscribers to social-computing networks not only access information but enter text and video images and publish them widely—becoming the first adolescents in history to be creators as well as consumers of vast quantities of information. If the characteristics of “the information age” demand new conceptions of commerce, national security, and publishing—among other things—it is logical to assume that they carry implications for education as well. In fact, a good deal has been written over the last several decades about how education as a whole must transform its structure and curriculum to accommodate the possibilities offered by new technologies. Far less has been written, however, about how the specific affordances of these technologies—and the kinds of information they allow students to access and create—relate to the central purpose of education: learning. What does “learning” mean in an information-rich environment? What are its characteristics? What kinds of tasks should it involve? What concepts, strategies, attitudes, and skills do educators and students need to master if they are to learn effectively and efficiently in such an environment? How can researchers, theorists, and practitioners foster the well-founded and widespread development of such key elements of the learning process? This book explores these questions and suggests some tentative answers. Drawing from research and theory in three distinct but related fields—learning theory, instructional systems design, and information studies—it presents a way to think about learning that responds directly to the actualities of a world brimming with information. The book is grounded in the work of such key figures in learning theory as Bransford and Anderson & Krathwohl. It draws on such theorists of instructional design as Gagne, Mayer, and Merrill. From information studies, it uses ideas from Buckland, Marchionini, and Wilson (who is known for his pioneering work in “information behavior”—that is, the full range of information seeking and use). The book breaks new ground in bringing together ideas that have run in parallel for years but whose relationship has not been fully explored.
Engaged Learning with Emerging Technologies
Title | Engaged Learning with Emerging Technologies PDF eBook |
Author | D. Hung |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2006-01-16 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781402036682 |
The major purpose of this book is to present and discuss current thinking, theories, conceptual frameworks, models and promising examples of engaged learning with emerging technologies. Contributions come from distinguished academics in the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, China, Korea and Singapore. Following from a constructivist orientation, coupled with social cultural dimensions of learning, this volume documents how emerging learning technologies are appropriated into meaningful and engaged learning and instructional situations. The field of learning technologies is grounded on the theoretical constructs of the learning sciences and thus the chapters in this book balance between theory and practice and prepositions and solutions.
How People Learn
Title | How People Learn PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2000-08-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0309131979 |
First released in the Spring of 1999, How People Learn has been expanded to show how the theories and insights from the original book can translate into actions and practice, now making a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior. This edition includes far-reaching suggestions for research that could increase the impact that classroom teaching has on actual learning. Like the original edition, this book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. When do infants begin to learn? How do experts learn and how is this different from non-experts? What can teachers and schools do-with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methodsâ€"to help children learn most effectively? New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb. How People Learn examines these findings and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. The book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know result in in-depth learning. This new knowledge calls into question concepts and practices firmly entrenched in our current education system. Topics include: How learning actually changes the physical structure of the brain. How existing knowledge affects what people notice and how they learn. What the thought processes of experts tell us about how to teach. The amazing learning potential of infants. The relationship of classroom learning and everyday settings of community and workplace. Learning needs and opportunities for teachers. A realistic look at the role of technology in education.