Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning
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Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning
David H. Rose , and Anne Meyer
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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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5 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Applicable.......2006-02-23

This book was required for a Master's class taken at U of I (IL). It will open your eyes as a teacher. I especially enjoyed the section that discusses Universal Design for Learning. The applictions were very practical. For those wanting to incorporate technology into their lesson plans, this book is for you. It focuses on how to do so for students of all learning types. A great reference book for the future.

5 out of 5 stars A Must-Read.......2004-04-21

This book is a must-read for teachers and administrators faced with the demands of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. NCLB requires that all children progress in the general curriculum. Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age lays the theoretical groundwork and offers practical examples and recommendations on how digital technologies can be used to break down barriers to learning that impair the performance of many students.

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.
E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age
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E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age
Marc J. Rosenberg
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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.

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5 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!.......2003-12-13

This book is a must!!! It is an essential approach for understanding eLearning beyond the myriad of applications and placing it as part of a wider framework.

4 out of 5 stars Knowledge Management = Learning Organization 2K.......2001-11-16

Marc Rosenberg is the Peter Senge of Knowledge Management. He builds on the key aspects that Senge acknowledges as key competitive aspects of organizations that need to learn, adapt, and stay solvent. He starts from identifying the difference between instruction vs information and the fact that so many times organizations get caught up in the "who" and the "how" instead of the "what" and the "why." For any trainer this book was interesting from the standpoint of how he defines different levels of knowledge. There are some key graphics and useful charts that help one grasp the complexity of e-learning. I started reading and thought it would be more about on-line learning, but he really took it much broader quickly. On-line learning is only a drop in the bucket of uses for the intranet. As much as we have out there he points out that there is much more to be saturated. Technology is a useful modality that can complement and enhance existing training. There was no threat to the training industry in his book. Training is still essential--but it needs to accomidate the information age and be much more timely, flexible, relevant. The one criticism I have is the fact that he doesn't address the fact that some people still need to have the classroom experience. There is the framework that you can increase aquisition of information, but if some of the psychological aspects of employee needs are not met--you get a drop in productivity, employee satisfaction and employee retention. There is still a lot to debate but he makes a compeling case regarding e-learning and knowledge management.

5 out of 5 stars Packed With Knowledge!.......2001-09-20

Author Marc Rosenberg provides one of the first books devoted to strategies for developing organization-wide, online learning. He goes beyond the obvious technological challenges of Web-based training to explain that technology and content are meaningless without a culture of learning. But creating this culture means confronting dramatic strategic, organizational and political issues. In this roadmap for building and sustaining a learning culture, Rosenberg offers an essential balance between the structure of e-learning (design and technology issues) and its implementation (acceptance and support issues). His book is an impassioned wake-up call to all executives who are concerned about the future of their organizations. To begin building your company’s culture of learning, ... arm yourself with this practical, yet philosophical, manual — a weapon for professionals on the front lines of the revolution in workspace learning.

3 out of 5 stars good overview and introduction to elearning.......2001-06-29

The author brings a good overview and sense of sincere understanding to the elearning space. The book does any excellent job of arming the internal champion of elearning with the data required to show the executive team the importance, value and return on investment.

5 out of 5 stars E-Learning Review.......2001-04-13

This book walks the reader through all aspects of elearning, from the human side of learning theory to the technical side of capability development and deployment. This was an excellent starter book that covers all the bases when it comes to the subject of elearning. The index clearly presents all of the content so the book may also be used as a quick reference guide where the reader can focus only on those areas of interest.
The Power of eLearning: The Essential Guide for Teaching in the Digital Age
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    Shirley Waterhouse
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    Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States
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    Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States
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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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    5 out of 5 stars Report on a Revolution Underway.......2005-08-25

    While mostly concerned with the university presses this book investigates the changes that the digital revolution has brought to book publishing.

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    The rise and fall of the (...) and its thoughts of e-books.

    The advent of the super on-line stores with all but infinite inventory - amazon.com and barnsandnoble.com.

    The advent of the super chains - (...)

    Print on Demand publishing.

    With all of these changes underway, the total book output (conventional printed on paper editions) has continued to rise. In 2002 there were 147,120 new books published in the U.S.

    Books covering the printing industry in depth do not come around very often. This book represents new research into a revolution that is still in process.
    Multiliteracies for a Digital Age (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)
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      Stuart Selber
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      Just as the majority of books about computer literacy deal more with technological issues than with literacy issues, most computer literacy programs overemphasize technical skills and fail to adequately prepare students for the writing and communications tasks in a technology-driven era. Multiliteracies for a Digital Age serves as a guide for composition teachers to develop effective, full-scale computer literacy programs that are also professionally responsible by emphasizing different kinds of literacies and proposing methods for helping students move among them in strategic ways.



      Defining computer literacy as a domain of writing and communication, Stuart A. Selber addresses the questions that few other computer literacy texts consider: What should a computer literate student be able to do? What is required of literacy teachers to educate such a student? How can functional computer literacy fit within the values of teaching writing and communication as a profession? Reimagining functional literacy in ways that speak to teachers of writing and communication, he builds a framework for computer literacy instruction that blends functional, critical, and rhetorical concerns in the interest of social action and change.



      Multiliteracies for a Digital Age reviews the extensive literature on computer literacy and critiques it from a humanistic perspective. This approach, which will remain useful as new versions of computer hardware and software inevitably replace old versions, helps to usher students into an understanding of the biases, belief systems, and politics inherent in technological contexts. Selber redefines rhetoric at the nexus of technology and literacy and argues that students should be prepared as authors of twenty-first-century texts that defy the established purview of English departments. The result is a rich portrait of the ideal multiliterate student in a digital age and a social approach to computer literacy envisioned with the requirements for systemic change in mind.

      Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age
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      Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age
      The George Lucas Educational Foundation
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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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      5 out of 5 stars Critical Starting Point for Global Transformation.......2007-09-17

      I respectfully encourage all serious reviewers to avoid the video review option. The video review sacrifices both rapid scanning of diverse views, and the ability to create added value from automated text search.

      edutopia is a true gift to humanity from the George Lucas foundation. I consider the book and the DVD to be a superb starting pointfor the necessary global transformation.

      Chapter Nine discusses a dozen promising practices that work:
      01 Peer Instruction
      02 Cross-age tutoring
      03 Bringing local experts into the classroom
      04 Multi-age classrooms
      05 Cooperative learning
      06 Class-size reduction
      07 Team teaching
      08 Looping (teachers stay with same students for several years)
      09 Block scheduling
      10 Schools within schools
      11 School teams
      12 Community service

      This is a superbly crafted multi-media teaching tool that every teacher, parent, and administrator will learn from and be strengthened by.

      My only disappointment is that the book's sponsors and authors focused so narrowly on just the USA and how the wisdom in this book might be applied within our existing academic and vocational infrastructure. My own focus is on the five billion poor who do not have the time for 18 years of rote education. Simply by subsidizing cells phones and creating a global network of 100 million volunteers using Telelanguage.com, we could offer free education to the five billion poor, and our own population, "one cell call at a time." Education is the only way we can create stabilizing wealth--this excellent book set its sights too low.

      5 out of 5 stars Great Resource for Educators.......2005-09-13

      This is one of those text books you have to keep. It's not expensive enough to be a text book in the first place. It has lots of great references to websites teachers should make use of. I've been passing the website information on to my computer literate teaching friends.

      5 out of 5 stars Edutopia... A celebration of effective school reforms.......2003-02-15

      During a time of state budget crises that are calling for drastic changes to the educational system as we know it, Edutopia provides a breath of fresh air and a sense of hope for teachers and parents. With the budget cuts looming , and demand for accountability as measured by performance on simplified tests, and the need to do more with less, the more is, unfortunately, focused on increasing test performance. Conspicuously absent from the center of concerns is the children's learning process.

      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.

      5 out of 5 stars Eutopia--examining the present to discover the future.......2003-02-12

      This is exactly what it promises to be --a very informative description of the best learning contexts that are being built with new technologies. Rather than celebrating the technology it focuses on the relationship between and among people and the way in which new forms of information and communication are reshaping these relationships.

      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.

      1 out of 5 stars Worst Teacher Education Text I Have Read.......2002-12-07

      This book is nothing but George Lucas' personal tribute to the technology that made him a superstar. This book is filled with rhetoric, unsubstantiated claims and lots of full-color pictures. It does not have any use for someone in a teacher education program, as it reads more like a coffee table book. The included CD-ROM is the icing on the huge cake of b.s., and goes to show, once again, that if you are rich and famous, you can publish anything.
      Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age: Sustainable for All in a Changing World (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)
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        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.

        Digital-Age Literacy for Teachers: Applying Technology Standards to Everyday Practice
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          Digital-Age Literacy for Teachers: Applying Technology Standards to Everyday Practice
          Susan Brooks-Young
          Manufacturer: Intl Society for Technology in
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          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.
          Deep Learning for a Digital Age: Technology's Untapped Potential to Enrich Higher Education
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          • Just a sales pitch
          • Van is the MAN!!!!
          • Deep Learning for a Digital Age
          • Great for Educators and Administrators
          • Focus on quality, not revenue potential, of online learning.
          Deep Learning for a Digital Age: Technology's Untapped Potential to Enrich Higher Education
          Van B. Weigel
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          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:

          1 out of 5 stars Just a sales pitch.......2004-04-22

          I had to review this book as part of a post-graduate study. The book is highly disappointing and is little more than a sales pitch for Weigel's so called "Knowledge Rooms". The book also goes into great detail on IBM/Lotus's "Quickpace". Weigel fawns over this product and I expect that he will get a box of chocs from the sales & marketing guys at IBM. Weigel also has a habit of telling irrelevant anecdotes and the book as a whole is ill-structured.

          My advice? Build your own room and write a book about it.

          5 out of 5 stars Van is the MAN!!!!.......2004-04-18

          Van B. Weigel has done it again!!! This book is incredeible!!! My method of teaching will never be the same. I recomend this book to anyone, even if you are not a professor. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPOINTED!!!

          1 out of 5 stars Deep Learning for a Digital Age.......2003-10-17

          I found this book disappointing and not helpful. I work as an instructional designer and saw no information of use to me - just lots of speculation. Chapter 3 ended up as an 'infomercial' for a software program named "quickplace". I cannot recommned this book at all.

          5 out of 5 stars Great for Educators and Administrators.......2003-06-23

          This book represents a modern view of technology. The author describes how to use technology to enhance learning. He gives practical advice to help educators and administrations set realistic goals. Too often, technology is implemented as an addition to educational goals rather than in support of these goals. Weigel examines different educational technologies and highlights factors that you should consider before implementation.

          5 out of 5 stars Focus on quality, not revenue potential, of online learning........2003-01-30

          This book emphasizes one of the most important issues confronting colleges and universities as they plan for online learning: the quality of the experience for the learner. Positing that an increasingly robust contemporary infrastructure (human and technical) can deepen learning and teaching beyond what's possible, even in many face-to-face environments, Weigel rightfully cautions higher education to keep its eye on the real prize -- educational depth and richness -- rather than the false and conflicting fantasy of commercial windfall. Eloquently written and soundly argued, this volume is a sensible guide for educators, administrators and policy-makers in dealing with the confused new world of electronically networked learning.
          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)
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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
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            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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