Web-Based Learning in K-12 Classrooms: Opportunities and Challenges

by Jay Blanchard, James Marshall

Overview

Make sure your students get the most from their online learning experiences

Even though nearly every K-12 public school in the United States has broadband Internet access,
the Web’s vast potential as a teaching and learning tool has still not been realized. Web-based learning opportunities have been expensive, slow to develop, and time-consuming to implement, despite pressure on schools to adopt technology solutions that will cure their educational ills. Web-Based Learning in K-12 Classrooms: Opportunities and Challenges chronicles the up and downs of online learning and offers unique insights into its future, providing a comprehensive, curriculum-wide treatment of K-12 content areas (reading, science, mathematics, social studies), special education, counseling, virtual schools, exemplary schools, implementation issues, and educational Web sites.

The Internet represents a powerful, complex set of technologies that offers your students access to unlimited knowledge—but that access doesn’t replace the human interactions found in classrooms. Placing a student in front of a computer monitor is a supplement to classroom learning, not a substitute for it. Academics and education professionals address questions surrounding the key issues involved in successfully incorporating the wide range of Web-based learning opportunities (formal courses, demonstrations, simulations, collaborations, searches) into the classroom, including technology, content, and implementation.

Web-Based Learning in K-12 Classrooms examines:

• inquiry-based learning
• online interaction
• displaying student work online
• Internet accessibility for students with disabilities
• initiating school counselors into e-learning technologies
• the role of government in virtual schools
• Web-based schools in California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Texas
• a 13-category classification system for online educational resources
• the ATLAS model for program implementation
• evaluations of more than 1,000 pieces of online information (articles, research, reports, news, and statistics) and 900 Web applications (tutorials, drills, games, and tests) with evaluation criteria

Web-Based Learning in K-12 Classrooms is a vital resource for educators interested in online learning applications across the K-12 curriculum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789024930
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/06/2005
Series:	Published Simultaneously As Computers in the Schools, Vol. 22, Nos. 3/4 Series
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

Jay Blanchard,, James Marshall

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION (Jay Blanchard)
• The Web and Reading Instruction (Jay Blanchard, Jared McLain, and Patrick Bartshe)
• The Web and Early Literacy (Marguerite Hillman and Terry J. Moore)
• Supporting Inquiry in Science Classrooms with the Web (Krista Simons and Doug Clark)
• K-12 Mathematics and the Web (Evan Glazer)
• Social Studies and the Web Today (Robert H. Lombard)
• The Web and Special Education (Lucinda Ray and Kimberly Atwill)
• The Web and School Counseling (John Carey and Carey Dimmitt)
• The Web and Virtual Schools (Lynne Schrum)
• Exemplary Web-Based Schools (Michael Milone)
• Analysis of Recognized Web-Based Educational Resources (Trey Martindale, Ward Mitchell Cates, and Yufeng Qian)
• Implementation and Web-Based Learning: The Unimplemented Program Yields Few Results (James Marshall)
• Web-Based Resources and Applications: Quality and Influence (Leping Liu and D. LaMont Johnson)
• The Web in K-12 Eduction: Is There a Future? (Cleborne D. Maddux)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included