Technology in School Classrooms: How It Can Transform Teaching and Student Learning Today

by James G. Cibulka (Editor), Bruce S. Cooper PhD, emeritus professor a (Editor)

Overview

This book provides an excellent analysis of whether and how digital technologies can transform teaching and learning in classroom settings. The authors collectively provide a multi-dimensional perspective on how and under what conditions technology can be productively employed by teachers to more effectively meet the challenges presented by a rapidly evolving world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475831047
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/31/2017
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.07(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

James G. Cibulka, Ph.D. Throughout his career as an educator, Cibulka has advocated for reforms that support greater student learning opportunities, particularly for disadvantaged youth. He has been a K-12 teacher, university professor, dean, and founding president of the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation. He is a former president of the Politics of Education Association (PEA) and senior editor of Educational Administration Quarterly.

Bruce S. Cooper, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at Fordham University, a scholar and researcher in the areas of private and religious schools, with an interest in school administration and policy. He was President of the Politics of Education Association (PEA), a recipient of the Jay D. Scriber Mentoring Award, from University Council Educational Administration, 2008; and President: Associates for Research on Private Education (ARPE), SIG of AERA; and Editor of the Private School Monitor, 2007-2012.

Table of Contents

Foreword. Next-Generation Learning in School
Chris Dede
Introduction to the Topic — and the Book
James G. Cibulka and Bruce S. Cooper
Chapter 1: Technology’s Role and Place in Student Learning: What We Have Learned from Research and Theories
Kui Xie and Nathan A. Hawk
Chapter 2: Teacher Professional Development in the Digital Age: Design and Implementation of Learning Without Limits
Stephanie Hirsh and Michelle Bowman King
Chapter 3: The State of K-12 Online Learning
Michael K. Barbour
Chapter 4: Building Foundational Skills in Learners with Special Needs Through the Use of Technology
Ted S. Hasselbring and Margaret E. Bausch
Chapter 5: Assessment Technology as a Tool to Strengthen Teaching and Student Learning
Michael Russell
Chapter 6: Emerging Technologies and Changing Practices in Science Classrooms
John A. Craven III and Tracy Hogan
Chapter 7: Economic Effects of Technology: Costs and Distribution of Resources to Support Student Learning
Lawrence O. Picus
Chapter 8: The Role of School Leaders in Leveraging Technology to Transform P-12 Classrooms
James G. Cibulka
Chapter 9: The Current Role of Schools of Education in Preparing a Technologically Literate Teaching Workforce
Karen Symms Gallagher
Chapter 10: Conclusion
James G. Cibulka
About the Authors
Index

Editorial Reviews

This insightful book bridges a gap between dedicated technologists and educators; patently, the fissure between unquestioning enthusiasm for all-things digital and the uncertainties of schools’ scarcities in funding, including debates about effective instructional practices and material. Cibulka and Cooper engineered a conceptual architecture for which chapter authors cannily link the promise of technology with teaching and learning and reality of schools’ ongoing financial and technological challenges. This book offers readers a comprehensive overview of the core conditions for technology use in learning, while acknowledging the political, cultural, and human influences on schools’ efforts in spanning the digital divide.

Jane Clark Lindle

You might enjoy Technology in School Classrooms if you want to keep up with the topics and thinking in the field of next generation learning. If you are teaching, you might like your students to get exposed to the ideas here.

Technical Communication

This book is an insightful read about the use of technology as a powerful tool to infuse global knowledge and skills – not only in our classrooms, but more broadly for the teaching profession. It speaks to teachers and will help them address their research, curriculum development, professional development and real classroom situations to enhance their practice and impact student learning.

Peggy Brookins

Educational technology grabs headlines as advocates and critics vie for advantage. But Cibulka and Cooper do a real service by cutting through that and instead diving into what it will take to make it work for students.

Andrew Rotherham