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Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning
David H. Rose , and Anne Meyer Manufacturer: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0871205998 |
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As a teacher in a typical classroom, there are two things you know for sure: Your students have widely divergent needs, skills, and interests . . . and you're responsible for helping every one attain the same high standards.This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the principles and applications of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)--a practical, research-based framework for responding to individual learning differences and a blueprint for the modern redesign of education.
The first part of Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age lays out the foundation of UDL, including neuroscience research on learner differences, the effective uses of new digital media in the classroom, and how insights about students who do not "fit the mold" can inform the creation of flexible curricula that help everyone learn more effectively. The second part of the book addresses UDL's practical applications--how UDL principles can help you
*Set appropriate goals for every student.
*Choose the methods and materials that give every student optimum instructional support.
*Ensure the fair and accurate assessment of every student's progress.
Along with references to digital tools and links to online resources, the authors provide a set of templates to facilitate classroom implementation of UDL, share the experience of a school district already succeeding with UDL, and highlight plans for UDL implementation on a national scale.
David H. Rose and Anne Meyer are the founders and co-directors of the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), a not-for-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people, including those with disabilities.
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Wonderfully Applicable.......2006-02-23
A Must-Read.......2004-04-21
Authors Rose and Meyer cite two converging dynamics at play that are helping eliminate such barriers: one is the discoveries of neural science that explain the great diversity in student learning; the other is the growth in digital technologies. As they see it, digitization makes possible a rich array of media that are beginning to match the complex of ways that students learn and express that learning.
Rose and Meyer urge material developers to follow principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Just as buildings today are designed to be accessible to all, without added ramps, so say the authors, educational materials should be created without barriers to content. If type is a barrier, alternative routes to content (such as audio, enlarged type, or shifts in foreground and background color) can and should be provided.
As I noted, this book has an excellent balance between theory and practice. It is supported by a rich Web site (http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent) and would make an excellent text for pre-service or in-service programs.
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E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age
Marc J. Rosenberg Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071362681 |
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Internet and intranet technologies offer tremendous opportunities to bring learning into the mainstream of business. E-Learning outlines how to develop an organization-wide learning strategy based on cutting-edge technologies and explains the dramatic strategic, organizational, and technology issues involved.Written for professionals responsible for leading the revolution in workplace learning, E-Learning takes a broad, strategic perspective on corporate learning. This wake-up call for executives everywhere discusses:
• Requirements for building a viable e-learning strategy
• How online learning will change the nature of training organizations
• Knowledge management and other new forms of e-learning
Marc J. Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Hillsborough, NJ) is an independent consultant specializing in knowledge management, e-learning strategy and the reinvention of training. Prior to this, he was a senior direction and kowledge management field leader for consulting firm DiamondCluster International.
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Learn what companies like AT&T, Cisco Systems, Dell Computer, IBM, Lucent Technologies, Merril Lynch, Prudential, and U S West and others have accomplished with e-learning.Customer Reviews:
Excellent!!!.......2003-12-13
Knowledge Management = Learning Organization 2K.......2001-11-16
Packed With Knowledge!.......2001-09-20
good overview and introduction to elearning.......2001-06-29
E-Learning Review.......2001-04-13
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The Power of eLearning: The Essential Guide for Teaching in the Digital Age
Shirley Waterhouse Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0205375642 |
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Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States
John B. Thompson Manufacturer: Polity Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0745634788 |
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The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been transformed by the economic and technological upheavals of recent years, and how is it likely to change in the future?This is the first major study of the book publishing industry in Britain and the United States for more than two decades. Thompson focuses on academic and higher education publishing and analyses the evolution of these sectors from 1980 to the present. He shows that each sector is characterized by its own distinctive `logic' or dynamic of change, and that by reconstructing this logic we can understand the problems, challenges and opportunities faced by publishing firms today. He also shows that the digital revolution has had, and continues to have, a profound impact on the book publishing business, although the real impact of this revolution has little to do with the ebook scenarios imagined by many commentators.
Books in the Digital Age will become a standard work on the publishing industry at the beginning of the 21st century. It will be of great interest to students taking courses in the sociology of culture, media and cultural studies, and publishing. It will also be of great value to professionals in the publishing industry, educators and policy makers, and to anyone interested in books and their future.
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Report on a Revolution Underway.......2005-08-25
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Multiliteracies for a Digital Age (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)
Stuart Selber Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0809325519 |
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Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age
The George Lucas Educational Foundation Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787960829 |
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Here's a tantalizing glimpse into the classrooms of innovative educators who are using technology to connect with students, colleagues, the local community, and the world beyond. Edutopia offers a unique perspective on education in which technology is employed to make schools more exciting and dynamic for everyone involved -- students work on real-world projects and consult with the best outside experts; teachers learn by tapping into the best people and practices in their field; and classrooms regularly connect with the rich resources of their communities and the world beyond.A lively resource that teachers and parents will want to refer to again and again, Edutopia is filled with more than forty full-color photos, has a useful resource section, and comes with a unique CD-ROM that contains more than seventy minutes of video footage of these classrooms in action.
"This book provides educators and parents alike with an unprecedented opportunity to see the future. We must support the efforts of these national heroes--teachers and students from primary and secondary education, foundation and community leaders--as they use technology to make our students and our nation more competitive." - Bob Kerrey, president, New School University and former United States Senator and chair of the Congressional Web-Based Education Commission
"This book provides a glimpse of the future by showing us the best work of innovators today. Anyone involved in creating the schools of the future shoud read it." - Linda Darling-Hammond, professor, School of Education, Stanford University
"Edutopia is an exciting guide to help teaching and learning move into the twenty-first century." - Richard Riley, former Secretary of Education
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Critical Starting Point for Global Transformation.......2007-09-17
Great Resource for Educators.......2005-09-13
Edutopia... A celebration of effective school reforms.......2003-02-15
In creating Edutopia, the book, the newsletter and the web resources, The George Lucas Educational Foundation's work finds our children and their learning processes at the heart of the educational system. While many of us have grown weary of reforming education, and have resigned ourselves to the concept of "tinkering" with the system (Tyack and Cuban, 1995, Tinkering Toward Utopia), Edutopia has held on to the belief in the power of the people to make significant, lasting, and positive changes to the way our children learn, develop, and grow through the educational process. While there is great value to tinkering, Edutopia shows us that the only limitations we have are those that we place on ourselves. The contributors to this book shows us how much power is unleashed when we allow ourselves to let go of our fears of change and our reluctance to embrace the possibilities that lie in the amazing digital age.
Edutopia is not a traditional educational book. If you are looking for a book on learning theories, research studies, or foundations of a discipline, Amazon will be able to help you locate them. There are also books that will tell you how poorly we are doing at educating all children. Edutopia is a unique book filled with creative approaches to learning, assessment, community involvement, expanding the classroom, creatively shaping the learning environment. This book is about the passion that we have for the development of our children. The authors urge us to break out of the lament which plagues our practice, to free our imagination to use emerging technology to energize learning. The book is filled with real life examples with ordinary teachers who take extraordinary steps to inculcate innovative and substantial changes to the children's learning process. These are examples of people who believe that they can make a difference, that real learning can occur despite budget cuts and "uncontrollable" outside forces. The stories are about people who refuse to settle.
When I read the newspapers or listen to the evening news and get discouraged with talks of the demise of our children's education, and I am tempted to settle for the mere tinkering of our children's educational process, I pick up Edutopia and am reminded that there are people out there who are making incredible differences in the lives of children.
Eutopia--examining the present to discover the future.......2003-02-12
If you want to think beyond the two covers of a book and 4 walls of a classroom, if you want to redesign schools and their communities as places of serious, playful learning in social contexts, this book will push your thinking. Yes, this book (and the 11 short movies) celebrates learning. No, this book is a not a critical examination of research that validates the learning outcomes although, for some of these projects, such studies exist.
A "success story" has value because it shows us how people have come to work together to create projects that push the boundaries past the routine. The purpose of these stories is to not simply to inform. We need stories like the ones in this book to inspire us, to energize us to move beyond what is now, and to realize that each of us can and should be thinking about what can be.
I use this book in my graduate courses to expose students to the range of project-based learning applications of technology, the evolving role in technology in assessment, the ways in which communities have become more involved in education and how communication technology is reshaping professional development into a continual everyday process. While a consistent philosophical and theoretical position underlies the examples, students need to abstract the principles.
The range and choice of stories is excellent but the stories are brief. Personally, I would have preferred a single spaced book with twice the information on each of the projects and examples. But in a multimedia connected world, stories can link to web sites, videos, and more extensive information on the Edutopia site and on the web. Celebrating success may not fit the critical stance that some take toward the work of education, but with all of the challenges, it is inspiring when people connect.
Worst Teacher Education Text I Have Read.......2002-12-07
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Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age: Sustainable for All in a Changing World (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402078420 |
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in Lifelong Learning supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In this overview, the following issues are discussed:
-Changing environments,
-What is Lifelong Learning?
-Who are the learners?
-Characteristics of learning environments,
-Sustainability of learning environments,
-Learning communities,
-Role of educational institutions,
-Role of ICT.
Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age contains reviewed papers by invited authors, as well as a comprehensive report with resource materials produced by a Focus Group of invited participants in the Lifelong Learning Working Track at the e-Train conference, "E-Training Practices for Professional Organizations". The conference was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Technical Committee 3 (Education), and was held in Pori, Finland in July 2003.
Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age will help both decision makers and educational designers to deal with the issues connected with Lifelong Learning. Solutions will have to be unique for each culture and each country, but this book will certainly inform and should considerably assist decision-making and problem resolution.
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Digital-Age Literacy for Teachers: Applying Technology Standards to Everyday Practice
Susan Brooks-Young Manufacturer: Intl Society for Technology in ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1564842290 Release Date: 2007-01-01 |
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Technology integration requires systemic reform, which must be supported by the entire school community. Most teachers and administrators need help to implement and sustain change on this scale. Regardless of their current level of technology proficiency, Digital-Age Literacy for Teachers will help teachers systematically reexamine their curriculum and classroom management to develop effective strategies for incorporating technology. The book provides readings and activities that will support classroom teachers, professional development providers, and teacher preparation instructors as they strive to incorporate twenty-first century learning tools and skills into daily practice.
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Deep Learning for a Digital Age: Technology's Untapped Potential to Enrich Higher Education
Van B. Weigel Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787956139 |
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In this timely book, Weigel presents an innovative and effective framework for e-learning in higher education that can be woven into the fabric of classroom-based education to better cultivate connection and collaboration between students and educators. Written for presidents, deans, trustees, faculty, and distance education providers, this book outlines a dynamic new approach to distance learning and shows that the ability to manage knowledge, rather than just accumulate it, should be the chief priority of higher education in a technological world. The author decries the use of distance education to simply expand enrollments and demonstrates how effective education can connect knowledge across fields and age levels rather than segmenting it. He also shows how the rich resources of the Internet can be plumbed creatively to add depth and meaning to the college curriculum and to immerse learners, whether in the classroom or at a distance, in a continuum of knowledge and experience.Customer Reviews:
Just a sales pitch.......2004-04-22
My advice? Build your own room and write a book about it.
Van is the MAN!!!!.......2004-04-18
Deep Learning for a Digital Age.......2003-10-17
Great for Educators and Administrators.......2003-06-23
Focus on quality, not revenue potential, of online learning........2003-01-30
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Learning Right from Wrong in the Digital Age: An Ethics Guide for Parents, Teachers, Librarians, and Others Who Care About Computer-Using Young People (Managing the 21st Century Library Media Center)
Doug Johnson Manufacturer: Linworth Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1586831313 |
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In this day and age when educators often have to question the validity of student work, this book teaches "computer ethics" to children to help them learn right from wrong when it comes to technologies uses."When students start using technology, particularly computers, they're operating in a virtual world where they find it harder to decide which behaviors are right or wrong," said author Doug Johnson. "Most of us would never shoplift, but software piracy is widespread. That's because many people don't see their online actions as having the same significance as actions in the real world. Plus, the perceived low risk and often game-like nature of the online world can encourage children to go beyond their normal ethical boundaries."
Learning Right from Wrong in the Digital Age contains numerous scenarios and discussion questions dealing with issues such as privacy, property and appropriate use. The final chapter, which focuses on teaching and promoting ethical behaviors, contains plagiarism-proofing assignments.
"This title includes ethical codes from the Computer Ethics Institution, Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer Learning Foundation," said Marlene Woo-Lun, president of Linworth Publishing, Inc. "We've ensured that users have all the tools they need to decide on principled action in the online world."
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