Tech Savvy English Classroom or Program Evaluation

Tech-Savvy English Classroom

Author: Sara B Kajder

This book is not a "plug and play" solution. Instead, it provides ideas and models that can be adapted to meet a teacher's individual level of knowledge as a technology user as well as the unique instructional goals found within each secondary English classroom. Ideas are anchored to national standards both for the teaching of English (NCTE/IRA) and digital literacy/technology integration (ISTE).

Christine Sanderson - VOYA

This guide for teachers who wish to incorporate technology into the fabric of their lessons contains a wealth of information ranging from how to effectively use a search engine to joining an online community. It is not a how-to manual. Although examples from the author's classroom projects abound, she does not offer a blueprint for recreating these projects. Rather, this book is a discussion of available resources and their relevance for teaching English. Believing that "student thinking is empowered when the right tool is joined with the right task and the right student," Kajder introduces the tools and leaves it up to the reader to determine how and when to use them. In an effort to reach teachers with different levels of expertise, technical information is often rather simplistic, "the Internet is a worldwide network of networks." But the use of educational jargon is more complex: "Teachers must learn not only the ways to work with equipment but also skills for facilitating learning in a technology-rich, constructivist learning environment." Much of what this book offers is not new information. For all but technology novices, the discussion of Boolean operators and search engines will not be particularly enlightening. The book's strength lies in its suggestions for classroom management and for integrating tools such as hypertext into the curriculum. The Web site that accompanies the book (http://www.techsavvyenglish.com) is also one of its best features, offering a more in-depth discussion of ideas introduced in the text. Index. Illus. Biblio. Further Reading. Appendix. 2003, Stenhouse, 150p,

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Starting Points	5
2	Where Are You?	13
3	Tech Boot Camp: Where Are Your Students?	23
4	Hypertext in the English Classroom	33
5	Reading the Web: Information Literacy	47
6	Going Beyond Word Processing	65
7	Going on a WebQuest	77
8	Creating Community: Telecommunication and Teleinformation Tools	97
9	Your-Class.com	117
10	Cyberspace, Innovation, and Imagination	127
	Appendix	131
	References	139
	Index	143

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Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches: Third Edition

Author: John M Owen

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