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Book Synopsis Laptops and Literacy by : Mark Warschauer
Download or read book Laptops and Literacy written by Mark Warschauer and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines laptop use in classrooms and how it influences literacy, discussing reading and writing challenges of the twenty-first century, the history of computer use in schools, research on schools implementing one-on-one computing, and other related topics.
Book Synopsis 1-to-1 Learning by : Pamela Livingston
Download or read book 1-to-1 Learning written by Pamela Livingston and published by ISTE (Interntl Soc Tech Educ. This book was released on 2006 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A timely book. . . . 1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs that Work is a comprehensive resource for planning and implementing laptop programs in the classroom."--CDW-G Newsletter
Book Synopsis Learning to Change the World by : Charles Kane
Download or read book Learning to Change the World written by Charles Kane and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO estimates that eleven percent of primary school–age children—seventy-two million worldwide—are not enrolled in or attending school. Children who do attend may find themselves in schools that lack adequate space, facilities, or resources—impossible situations for learning. It is against this backdrop of profound need that One Laptop per Child (OLPC) emerged in 2005. The mission of the organization is to "empower the children of developing countries to learn." They created the first affordable netbook specifically built to withstand harsh climates and the handling of young children—the bright green and white XO. At the 2005 World Economic Forum, Nicholas Negroponte, the MIT researcher who co-founded the Media Lab and OLPC, introduced the XO laptop to the world and described a new approach to changing education in developing countries. First, children must have access to information (through low-cost data communications) and the tools to educate themselves (affordable computers and learning software). Secondly, the fundamental approach to education must shift from passive knowledge acquisition to active construction of knowledge (learning how to learn). Thirdly, OLPC planned to build an organization with the capability to deliver these computers and support these shifts globally. It was an audacious vision of how to bring about a massive educational change. Learning to Change the World is the story of One Laptop per Child—a story that will resonate with entrepreneurs and social innovators in any field. OLPC is an example of a non-profit organization with aspirations for systemic change on a global scale, yet wrestling with tough questions that will be familiar to any social entrepreneur: how to ensure market forces support the scale up of a social program; how to balance the need to repeat past successes but still leave room for innovation; how to leverage a network to expand impact beyond your original capabilities; and how to help people without creating dependence. The authors set out to tell the real story of their journey—both successes and failures. For both ardent supporters and critics alike, this book presents both an invitation and a challenge: to set aside preconceived notions about OLPC and read the inside story of the origins and evolution of the organization.
Book Synopsis Never Mind the Laptops by : Bob Johnstone
Download or read book Never Mind the Laptops written by Bob Johnstone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-08-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What we all hope for our children's education is undiminished curiosity and creativeness, and solid practical preparation for adult work. Today, there's no doubt that easy access to computers is vital for students. Bob Johnstone has brilliantly and passionately told the story of the worldwide struggle to make today's equivalent of the pencil accessible to all students." -Victor K. McElheny, author of "Watson and DNA" If every kid had a laptop computer, what would difference would it make to their learning? And to their prospects? Today, these are questions that all parents, teachers, school administrators, and politicians must ask themselves. Bob Johnstone provides a definitive answer to the conundrum of computers in the classroom. His conclusion: we owe it to our kids to educate them in the medium of their time. In this book he tells the extraordinary story of the world's first laptop school. How daring educators at an independent girls' school in Melbourne, Australia, empowered their students by making laptops mandatory. And how they solved all the obstacles to laptop learning, including teacher training. Their example spread to thousands of other schools worldwide. Especially in America, where it inspired the largest educational technology initiative in US history-the State of Maine issuing laptops to every seventh-grader in its public school system. This lively, intriguing, anecdote-rich account is based on hundreds of interviews. In it, you'll meet the visionary leaders, inspirational principals, heroic teachers, and their endlessly-surprising students who showed what computers in the classroom are really for.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level by : Tan Wee Hin, Leo
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level written by Tan Wee Hin, Leo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on issues in literacy and technology at the K-12 level in a holistic manner so that the needs of teachers and researchers can be addressed through the use of state-of-the-art perspectives"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Computers for Seniors by : Chris Ewin
Download or read book Computers for Seniors written by Chris Ewin and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Kids Just Gave Me a Computer, What Do I Do Now? Computers for Seniors is a step-by-step, full-color guide that will take you all the way from pressing the "On" button on your new computer to being a confident user who can send email to family and friends, shop online safely, read the latest news, watch funny YouTube videos, share cute pictures of your grandkids, check the weather forecast, and much more. You’ll learn to: -Plug in, set up, and turn on your computer -Print and share photos of your grandkids, vacations, pets, friends, and special life events -Install helpful tools like a calendar, money manager, and weather tracker -Search the internet for news, recipes, gardening tips, sports updates, and anything else that interests you -Watch entertaining YouTube videos or educational lectures and make video calls to anywhere in the world -Find and listen to new music (or your favorite classics) and read electronic books -Email your friends and family -Stay safe online and keep your private information secure Computers for Seniors will show you how to get what you really want from your PC, with the help of full-color illustrations, friendly instructions, and a touch of humor. Each lesson has small exercises to test your skills and help you practice, to make sure you feel comfortable with what you’ve learned before you move on. It’s never too late to have fun and get more out of your PC—Computers for Seniors will ease you into the computer generation by guiding you every step of the way.
Book Synopsis The Computer in Reading and Language Arts by : Jay S. Blanchard
Download or read book The Computer in Reading and Language Arts written by Jay S. Blanchard and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stimulating and readable book, educators--most of whom have long been involved in computer-based literacy research efforts--provide up-to-date information on computer-based activities in reading and language arts. These experts offer valuable goals and strategies for integrating computer technology into the reading/language arts curriculum, including suggestions for activities that should and should not be used. They also address the basics of developing, evaluating, and using computer-based reading instruction programs. The unique benefits of computer technology to teach English as a second language, writing skills, and the reading process to early readers are thoroughly explored. Innovative Uses of the Computer in the Language Arts Classroom Computerized readability assessment Reinforcement and instructional objectives Student interest profiles Class book files This exciting book--in a broader sense--corrects the failure by many to consider the literacy issues that invariably surround and govern computer use. While the types of computer-literacy environments differ, the literacy requirements are still the same--the computer and the user must communicate through text. Thus, The Computer in Reading and Language Arts provides essential understanding of the literacy requirements and environments involved in computer use.
Book Synopsis The Charisma Machine by : Morgan G. Ames
Download or read book The Charisma Machine written by Morgan G. Ames and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences. In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why—despite its failures—the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development. Announced in 2005 by MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop per Child promised to transform the lives of children across the Global South with a small, sturdy, and cheap laptop computer, powered by a hand crank. In reality, the project fell short in many ways—starting with the hand crank, which never materialized. Yet the project remained charismatic to many who were captivated by its claims of access to educational opportunities previously out of reach. Behind its promises, OLPC, like many technology projects that make similarly grand claims, had a fundamentally flawed vision of who the computer was made for and what role technology should play in learning. Drawing on fifty years of history and a seven-month study of a model OLPC project in Paraguay, Ames reveals that the laptops were not only frustrating to use, easy to break, and hard to repair, they were designed for “technically precocious boys”—idealized younger versions of the developers themselves—rather than the children who were actually using them. The Charisma Machine offers a cautionary tale about the allure of technology hype and the problems that result when utopian dreams drive technology development.
Download or read book Literacy Online written by Myron C. Tuman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of ideological debates in the 1980s concerning literacy, an entirely different kind of revolution in the practice of literacy was occurring. Everyone - students, teachers, authors, and their readers - was starting to use computers to compose texts. The very notions of reading and writing were being altered with the use of online library catalogues, computer databases, and electronic mail. With access to laser printing and desktop publishing software, writers were also able to control not only what they said but how it looked.
Book Synopsis Emergent Computer Literacy by : Helen Mele Robinson
Download or read book Emergent Computer Literacy written by Helen Mele Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is currently grappling with how to prepare our students to be computer literate citizens in the competitive technological world we live in. Understanding how children develop computer knowledge, and the ways that adults are able to guide their computer learning experiences, is a vital task facing parents and educators. This groundbreaking book is an attempt to fill a gap in current understanding of how we become computer literate and proposes a theory of how computer literacy skills emerge in computer users.
Book Synopsis Multiliteracies for a Digital Age by : Stuart A. Selber
Download or read book Multiliteracies for a Digital Age written by Stuart A. Selber and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2004-01-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the majority of books about computer literacy deal more with technological issues than with literacy issues, most computer literacy programs overemphasize technical skills and fail to adequately prepare students for the writing and communications tasks in a technology-driven era. Multiliteracies for a Digital Age serves as a guide for composition teachers to develop effective, full-scale computer literacy programs that are also professionally responsible by emphasizing different kinds of literacies and proposing methods for helping students move among them in strategic ways. Defining computer literacy as a domain of writing and communication, Stuart A. Selber addresses the questions that few other computer literacy texts consider: What should a computer literate student be able to do? What is required of literacy teachers to educate such a student? How can functional computer literacy fit within the values of teaching writing and communication as a profession? Reimagining functional literacy in ways that speak to teachers of writing and communication, he builds a framework for computer literacy instruction that blends functional, critical, and rhetorical concerns in the interest of social action and change. Multiliteracies for a Digital Age reviews the extensive literature on computer literacy and critiques it from a humanistic perspective. This approach, which will remain useful as new versions of computer hardware and software inevitably replace old versions, helps to usher students into an understanding of the biases, belief systems, and politics inherent in technological contexts. Selber redefines rhetoric at the nexus of technology and literacy and argues that students should be prepared as authors of twenty-first-century texts that defy the established purview of English departments. The result is a rich portrait of the ideal multiliterate student in a digital age and a social approach to computer literacy envisioned with the requirements for systemic change in mind.
Book Synopsis Computer-Mediated Communication for Linguistics and Literacy: Technology and Natural Language Education by : Bodomo, Adams B.
Download or read book Computer-Mediated Communication for Linguistics and Literacy: Technology and Natural Language Education written by Bodomo, Adams B. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book investigates the way humans communicate through the medium of information technology gadgets, focusing on the linguistic, literacy and educational aspects of computer-mediated communication"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Word Perfect written by Myron C. Tuman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1992 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Word Perfect recounts the transition from one historical epoch to another - from a modern age both rooted in the unprecedented industrial expansion of the last hundred years and committed to the reading and writing of books to a postmodern age rooted in the equally unprecedented expansion in the ability to manage information and likely just as committed to reading and writing with computers."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Digital Literacy by : Mandy Reininger
Download or read book Digital Literacy written by Mandy Reininger and published by Chemeketa Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Literacy provides computer literacy students with the essentials needed to understand what computers are, how they work, and why they are so important. It is written in plain language with visual examples and clear explanations so that even students who are typically confused by computer terminology will understand these ideas and learn how to apply them. This compact, college-level textbook introduces a wide range of concepts including: • Input and output component lists and explanations • File management best practices • Software categories • Communication and network types • Cybersecurity and safety • Expanding ethical concerns in a digital world Written by community college faculty using decades of teaching experience, Digital Literacy is written for students in the classroom, not theoretical computer users. This classroom-tested textbook features clear and friendly language to demystify computers in ways that set students up for success.
Author :Management Association, Information Resources Publisher :IGI Global ISBN 13 :1522576649 Total Pages :2194 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (225 download)
Book Synopsis Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by : Management Association, Information Resources
Download or read book Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 2194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a diverse society, the ability to cross communication barriers is critical to the success of any individual personally, professionally, and academically. With the constant acceleration of course programs and technology, educators are continually being challenged to develop and implement creative methods for engaging English-speaking and non-English-speaking learners. Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines the relationship between language education and technology and the potential for curriculum enhancements through the use of mobile technologies, flipped instruction, and language-learning software. This multi-volume book is geared toward educators, researchers, academics, linguists, and upper-level students seeking relevant research on the improvement of language education through the use of technology.
Book Synopsis Leonardo's Laptop by : Ben Shneiderman
Download or read book Leonardo's Laptop written by Ben Shneiderman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the inspiration of Leonardo da Vinci to build a new, humanistic computing that focuses on users' needs and goals.
Book Synopsis Technologies of Learning by : Ambigapathy Pandian
Download or read book Technologies of Learning written by Ambigapathy Pandian and published by Common Ground. This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intertwining of education and new information and communication technologies is creating a new multi-channelled learning environment where learners study and connect with one another across classroom, community and country borders in new and exciting ways. Conventional ideas about education institutions as sites for transmitting knowledge efficiently and effectively are currently being challenged as we pave ways to focus on the digital economy, knowledge workers and lifelong learning in diverse settings. This expansion of new knowledge will demand that workers learn rapidly and keep their skills current. In this regard lifelong learning is a fundamental component of the new times where one perseveres to learn and enhance skills in order to take full advantage of the changes in the information and knowledge revolution. This volume: * explores the use of e-mail, online discussion groups, interactive websites and Internet relay chats to facilitate basic language skills * discusses the ethical, cultural and political responsibilities of individuals in a cyber community and the need for a safe learning environment for students * explores on line mentoring via the World Wide Web, allowing one to one interaction between teacher and students * presents the findings of a pilot study examining the collaborative aspects of online learning and the difficulties and benefits of distance learning using online software * discusses the use of laptop computers with speech synthesis as a tool for children with learning difficulties * provides a case study of the use of technology in the workplace: the design of an online education testing tool for multiple choice questions * presents the results of research into technologies implementation issues arising from changes in the higher education sector * looks at current student readiness to accept the use of interactive technologies and cautions against celebratory assumptions.
