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 | | Teaching for Understanding with Technology (Jossey Bass Education Series) by Martha Stone Wiske, Kristi Rennebohm Franz, Lisa Breit (Contributor) ISBN-10: 9780787972301 ISBN-10: 0-7879-7230-4 ISBN-13: 9780787972301 ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-7230-1 Paperback 2004-10-22 Jossey-Bass Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Teaching for Understanding with Technology shows how teachers can maximize the potential of new technologies to advance student learning and achievement. It uses the popular Teaching for Understanding framework that guides learners to think, analyze, solve problems, and make meaning of what they've learned. The book offers advice on tapping into a rich array of new technologies such as web information, online curricular information, and professional networks to research teaching topics, set learning goals, create innovative lesson plans, assess student understanding, and develop communities of learners. | ||
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everything you need to know about TfU This is a great book to cover all the foundations of teaching for understanding with technology. the examples they used in the book are all really life examples that inspired you how to use TfU in classrooms. | ||
essential for every educator an excellent book in order to extent and enhance the use of technology in our classroom. | ||
Not as good as other Teaching with Technology books With this being a brand new book, and having read part of the first chapter on Amazon, I was looking forward to reading it. I was let down. First, I personally think that while the "Teaching for Understanding" model of teaching is not bad, it is similar to the constructivist concept that most technology education books use as their foundation, but I found the "Teaching for Understanding" model to not be as strong or consistant and integrated with itself as the Constructivist model. Further, the examples that are given in the book felt more shallow than examples I have seen with constructivism. While none of the technology use was bad, per se, in Teaching for Understanding with Technology, none of the examples I saw, really worked towards using the technology to change the way students think. I suppose one reason for this, is that the book seems to be written for the very beginning computer user. I applaud this effort, because I have found far too many teachers to be computer illiterate, and worse, are scared to learn. If we want to impress that learning is lifelong to our students, we must be the demonstration. I personally recommend Teaching with Technology: Designing Opportunities to Learn. While this is a textbook, and costs a fair bit more than other books about using technology in education, I think it is the most well rounded and practical book out there on the subject, and I have read a lot of them. | ||