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Changing How We Teach and Learn With Handheld Computers

Foreword by Alan November



December 2004 | 184 pages | Corwin
`Crystal clear examples that are rich in content and aligned to standards from a leading expert in the field' - Alan November, Author and Consultant

Create a dynamic, interactive environment that extends beyond the classroom!

In this digital era, how can educators seamlessly incorporate technology into everyday classroom use? What tools will empower students, promote digital equity, and extend thoughtful learning? In this book, teachers learn how to build learning experiences that use technology to support thinking, data analysis, and information retrieval and sharing for standards-linked learning both in and beyond the classroom.

Changing How We Teach and Learn With Handheld Computers shows how handheld computing can help students grow in academic understanding. These tools enable students to collaborate and network while promoting the extension of learning beyond the classroom.

Carolyn Staudt, a leading expert in technology integration, gives educators practical applications through:

- Learning activities in all content areas

- Advice on downloading student friendly software

- Beaming and data sharing tips

- Step-by-step processes for manipulating and displaying data

- Case studies from classrooms already employing handhelds

Handheld devices are already a part of the students' world. Now educators can embrace this technology and create a powerful learning environment that leaves no student behind.

 
About the Author
Allan November
Foreword
 
1. Handheld Computers as Educational Tools
 
2. Organizing and Planning
Daily Log

 
Around the World in Eight Days

 
Displaying Student Models

 
 
3. Referencing Information
Spelling Bee

 
Chemical Periodicity

 
Starry Sky

 
 
4. Data Gathering
Surveying Homework Practices

 
Fitness for Life

 
The Pickle Pond Study

 
 
5. Manipulating and Displaying Data
Frequent Sines

 
Rate of Change

 
Field Guide

 
 
6. Communicating and Collaborating
Viking Times Project

 
What If Builder

 
Continuous Water Cycle

 
 
7. Individual Learning and Assessment
Impacting the World's Resources

 
Team Check List

 
Concept Journaling

 
 
8. Empowering Teachers
 
References
References
 
Bibliography
 
Index

“Crystal clear examples that are rich in content and aligned to standards...from a leading expert in the field."

Alan November
Author and Consultant

Carolyn Staudt

Carolyn Staudt is a curriculum designer for technology- and Internet-based projects, including Technology Enhanced Elementary and Middle School Science (TEEMSS 1 & 2), JASON Academy, Modeling Across the Curriculum, Models and Data, Mobile Inquiry Computing, Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT), Science Learning in   Context (SliC), Virtual High School, Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), Kids as Global Scientists (KGS), and NetAdventure at the Concord Consortium. She is especially intrigued with allowing students to collect real-time data with portable sensors and probes attached to... More About Author

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