Home Business Non Profit Education K-12 Higher and Adult Education Public Health and Health Services Spirituality and Religion Parenting and Relationships Psychology
Join Email Mailing List Join Postal Mailing List
josseybass.com
Computers in the Classroom: How Teachers and Students Are Using Technology to Transform Learning
Andrea R. Gooden
ISBN: 978-0-7879-0262-9
Hardcover
224 pages
October 1996
US $28.00 add_to_cart.gif
 
?The electronic world provides profoundly new challenges to education that both confound all of the other problems and provide hope for solving them. Schools must incorporate computing into everyday functioning and prepare students to live in an adult world where computing is pervasive.? --From the foreword by Herbert Kohl

?Must reading for all school administrators and educators! This book will help your expand your vision as to how technology can be used to truly improve student learning and achievement. It also describes approaches to using technology that works in the classroom.? --Kenneth M. Bird, superintAndent, The Westside Community Schools, Omaha, Nebraska

?Teachers, parents, students, and administrators can produce surprising and valuable learning when they apply their own creativity in ways that meet their own local needs. Computers in the Classroom provides a rich, in-depth cases that will inform and inspire other communities to take advantage to technologies in similarly powerful ways.? --Beverly Hunter, program manager, Educational Technology System, BBN, and author of My Students Use Computers

?I applaud the six schools described within these pages for their masterful creations of seamless technology integration! These tremAndous learning experiences can only take place, however, if schools invest wisely and businesses remain supportive. The education of today's child requires an investment from the entire community. This is a `must read' book for those interested in the effective integration of technology into the classroom.? --Scott R. Muri, technology specialist, Celebration School, Celebration, Fla.

"In this book...the examples give teachers, parents, and administrators proven models of how technology can revitalize the educational process and most of all, free the imagination of the children." --Patterns, an ASCD newsletter
 
If you are an instructor, you may request an evaluation copy for this title.
Find supplements, online resources, and technology solutions for this title on Wiley.com.
upsell plus Buy Both and Save 25%!

Buy Computers in the Classroom: How Teachers and Students Are Using Technology to Transform Learning (List Price = US $28.00)

with Teaching for Understanding with Technology (List Price = US $29.00)

Total List Price
$57.00
Discounted Price
$42.75
Save $14.25
Cannot be combined with any other offers. Read more of the fine print.
Share This      Printer Ready Printer-ready version