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| Title: | Teaching in the digital age : using the Internet to increase student engagement and understanding / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kristen Nelson |
| ISBN: | 1412955661 (pbk.); 9781412955669 (pbk.); 1412955653 (cloth); 9781412955652 (cloth) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-142) and index. Content: 1. Designing Internet-based activities -- What does a well-designed Internet activity look like? -- Understanding by design framework -- Nine steps to a successful Internet-based project -- Example lesson: Getting started -- Taking it to the classroom: So many ways to be smart -- 2. Connecting brain-compatible learning, multiple intelligences, and the Internet -- Brain-compatible learning -- Multiple intelligences theory -- The Internet -- 3. Assessing Internet-based activities -- Assessment: The great debate -- Performance tasks: Six facets of understanding rubrics -- 4. Using the Internet to strengthen interpersonal skills -- The history of the Internet -- Taking it to the classroom: What is the Internet? -- Searching for information: Search engines -- Taking it to the classroom: Getting to know search engines -- Favorites and web site notebooks -- Electronic mail -- Interpersonal exchange activities -- Taking it to the classroom: Reflective writing -- 5. Enhancing information gathering and analysis skills -- Information literacy skills -- Taking it to the classroom: Mini-research project -- Information gathering and analysis activities -- Taking it to the classroom: What makes good writing good? -- Taking it to the classroom: Virtual field trips -- 6. Improving questioning and problem-solving skills -- Uncoverage -- Questioning -- Problem-solving activities -- Taking it to the classroom: Social action project -- Appendix A: Web site addresses -- Appendix B: Rubrics. |
| Description: | xv, 147 p. ; 28 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Designing Internet-based activities -- What does a well-designed Internet activity look like? -- Understanding by design framework -- Nine steps to a successful Internet-based project -- Example lesson: Getting started -- Taking it to the classroom: So many ways to be smart -- 2. Connecting brain-compatible learning, multiple intelligences, and the Internet -- Brain-compatible learning -- Multiple intelligences theory -- The Internet -- 3. Assessing Internet-based activities -- Assessment: The great debate -- Performance tasks: Six facets of understanding rubrics -- 4. Using the Internet to strengthen interpersonal skills -- The history of the Internet -- Taking it to the classroom: What is the Internet? -- Searching for information: Search engines -- Taking it to the classroom: Getting to know search engines -- Favorites and web site notebooks -- Electronic mail -- Interpersonal exchange activities -- Taking it to the classroom: Reflective writing -- 5. Enhancing information gathering and analysis skills -- Information literacy skills -- Taking it to the classroom: Mini-research project -- Information gathering and analysis activities -- Taking it to the classroom: What makes good writing good? -- Taking it to the classroom: Virtual field trips -- 6. Improving questioning and problem-solving skills -- Uncoverage -- Questioning -- Problem-solving activities -- Taking it to the classroom: Social action project -- Appendix A: Web site addresses -- Appendix B: Rubrics. |
| Responsibility: | Kristen J. Nelson. |
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Nelson, Kristen. Teaching in the digital age. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2008 (OCoLC)608733630 |
| Year: | c2008. |
| Publisher: | Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2007011192; National Library: 013795629 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: LB1044.87; Dewey No.: 371.33/44678 |
| OCLC No.: | 105434720 |
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