Computers in the Classroom: How Teachers and Students Are Using Technology to Transform Learning - Hardcover

Gooden, Andrea R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787902624 ISBN 13: 9780787902629

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 1996

Synopsis

A Jossey-Bass and Apple Publication

Six remarkable stories about the introduction of computers to the classroom and the profound effect it had on students' lives. Informative and entertaining, this book will expand your vision of how technology can be used to enhance classroom.

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Computers in the Classroom tells the stories of six schools that are using computers to revitalize teaching and learning in the classroom. Written in an informative and entertaining manner, these remarkable stories reveal how the introduction of computer technology has transformed the educational experience of the students, the teachers, and their communities.Each portrait shows how computers created for students opportunities that would only be possible using this technology.St. Benedict's Preparatory School, Newark, New Jersey engaged high school students in a cultural, historical, and scientific exploration of their community using computer technology. The Newark Studies program and the student magazine Newark Indepth have put the spotlight on a community struggling to revive itself, bolstered by the hope and determination of its youth.Abita Springs Elementary School, Abita Springs, Louisiana initiated a Hypertext Folklore Project. The school built a curriculum around the local culture, then entered that information into computers. The students and their community have provided a potent source of folk history and information on diverse cultures.South Philadelphia High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania created an innovative project called the Computer Greenhouse Effect. The students cultivated plants and used computers to record growth data, conduct plant growth simulations, and write detailed reports on everything from photosynthesis to acid rain.Dos Palos High School, Dos Palos, California is located in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley. In the school's innovative program Teaching for Transition to the Next Century, students learn computer skills that helped them transition into the work world. Since the program was instituted the school has quadrupled the number of college-bound students.P.S. 125 Ralph Bunche School, New York, New York set up Earth Lab in this Harlem-based school. Students were given the same kind of communications

Reviews

The program manager for Apple Computer's Education Grants program zeroes in on six grant-winning schools in underfunded and underserved communities to see how computers are changing the face of education. Each project described is different: in one, tenth-grade boys in an inner-city school use the computer to investigate contemporary urban issues and publish a magazine that is sold in their community; in another, Louisiana elementary students collect and write stories that reflect the multicultural life of their community to enter in a CD-ROM encyclopedia for local residents. Photographs, comments from teachers and students, and original student writings enrich the accounts. Although there aren't enough basics to use the descriptions as actual models, there's plenty to convince teachers and administrators to take the computers out of the computer labs and put them in the classrooms. Stephanie Zvirin

Six success stories of computer-based curricula, funded in recent years by Apple Computer, Inc., are the focus of this lively, inspiring book for educators and parents. All projects involved minority students in economically deprived areas of the United States, and most were interdisciplinary projects taught by teams of teachers: for example, a greenhouse unit in a Philadelphia high school, a current events newsletter at a Newark, New Jersey, parochial school, and a folklife study at a rural Louisiana elementary school. The text is presented in magazine format and peppered with photographs of smiling students and teachers. Appendixes list written and online sources of information, and a useful glossary of computer terms is included. Educational reformer Herbert Kohl wrote the rather dry introduction. Proceeds from the book's sale will be given to ISTE, a nonprofit educator group. Large public libraries and school districts exploring new technologies will want to purchase.?Joyce W. Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787902624
• ISBN 13: 9780787902629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Silverman Fred