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What is the creative potential of the new technologies? How can computers create new possibilities for artistic and creative work in education?Young People, Creativity and New Technologies describes ways in which ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) can produce new possibilities for creative work both within the formal curriculum and in complementary educational arenas. It provides a series of case studies which show how 'digital arts' are currently being used across school and community arts curricula and demonstrates how ICTs can be used in a genuinely inter-disciplinary way.It is aimed at those who are interested in practical ways to develop the creative uses of new technologies at school and in community arts settings.

Product Description: What is the connection between technology and learning? Do students really learn more in technology-enhanced environments? How does teaching change when technology is introduced? Addresses the gap between technology skills and the application of those skills in teaching and learning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

High Wired is a collection of essays designed to integrate all aspects of the use and administration of the virtual educational communities known as MOOs (Multiple-user, Object-Oriented environments). MOOs were originally designed as a space for online social interaction. While MOOs bear a resemblance to the "chat rooms" with which many people are familiar, they differ in several important respects: participants can not only communicate in actual time from great distances, but they can also add to this virtual world by building new rooms and other objects, and writing programs that alter their particular MOO universe in profound ways. LambdaMOO, developed in 1990 by Pavel Curtis at the Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center, quickly became a popular hangout on the Internet, and has run continuously since then, with thousands of players from around the world. Today, MOOs are increasingly recognized for their value as an educational tool. In MOOs teachers and students can meet on line at scheduled times and exchange ideas, even calling up online reference materials as they participate in discussions. Educators are currently exploring the potential of this technology for such applications as online writing centers, electronic classrooms, netbased collaborative environments, and even complete cyberspace campuses. Teachers, students, and researchers who have long awaited a comprehensive treatment of this powerful technology will welcome the publication of High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs. Editors Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik have brought together a diverse group of experts whose contributions help answer questions and dispel myths surrounding MOOs and their use in education. Contributors include John Barber, Jorge R. Barrios, Mark Blanchard, Amy Bruckman, Juli Burk, Brian Clements, Eric Crump, Pavel Curtis, Diane Davis, Jeffrey Galin, Dene Grigar, Cynthia Haynes, Jan Rune Holmevik, Michael Joyce, Beth Kolko, Ken Schweller, Sherry Turkle, Victor J. Vitanza, Shawn P. Wilbur, and Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs. High Wired's essays are arranged in a practical sequence, beginning with the context and history of MOOs, followed by more technical essays on how to set up and administer a MOO. Subsequent essays discuss applications for the use of MOOs in education, and finally, provide theoretical explorations of the nature of MOO communities. High Wired is at once a textbook, a reference book, and a handbook. Teachers, students, and other interested readers will find that it appeals to both practical needs and theoretical concerns. Cynthia Haynes is Assistant Professor of Literary Studies and Director of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas at Dallas. Jan Rune Holmevik is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway. In 1995, they cofounded Lingua MOO, a text-based virtual space where writing classes are held on the University of Texas at Dallas's computer network. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In The Tower under Siege Brian Lewis, Christine Massey, and Richard Smith explore these important themes and issues from the varying perspectives of students, teachers, policy makers, and administrators. They describe the opportunities, changes, and policies developing in Canadian universities and governments in response to the education revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An impassioned guide to how computers can fundamentally change how we learn and think.Andrea diSessa's career as a scholar, technologist, and teacher has been driven by one important question: can education―in particular, science education―be transformed by the computer so that children can learn more, learn more easily at an earlier age, and learn with pleasure and commitment? This book is diSessa's informed and passionate affirmative answer to that question...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: New Zealand schools have experienced unprecedented change during the lastdecade. Radicalrestructuringoftheframeworksforbothcurriculumand qualificationsfollowedamovementtowards self-managementin 1989. The curriculum framework, consisting of seven essential learning areas, has been progressively introduced with completionnotexpecteduntil 2002...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Learning is a critical worldwide problem for humans, essential to create a peaceful and happy world. We have serious problems in learning in both wealthy and poor areas. New approaches to learning are needed, as the current system may not rise to the new challenges...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The new technology-rich teaching and learning environments are changing traditional higher education. This book offers a practical guide for college and university administrators who must move their institutions to becoming e-learning environments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An artist-in-the-schools presents 20 easy and exciting art projects that enrich your curriculum all year long. Children make a Portrait Flip Book, a Thanksgiving Food-Print Mural, a Chinese Lion Dance Mask, Creepy Crawly Styrofoam Stamps, Ocean-Life Collage, and more! For use with Grades 2-5...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Connect math and reading! First kids read easy and adorable math stories; then they solve companion word problems that reinforce addition, subtraction, place value, patterns, shapes, time, money, and more. Includes lively illustrations and an answer key...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: These must-have reproducible mini-reference books give every student the tools they need to read and write independently! Each mini-book is a snap to make and use. A one-of-a-kind resource and an incredible value! For use with Grades 2-4.

Product Description: Inspire kids to write and build literacy and with easy-to-make, keepsake mini-books they’ll love! Engaging page-by-page prompts invite kids to write and illustrate their own books across a variety of genres – autobiography, fairy tales, tall tales, letters, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Welcome to Cyberschool is a book about two highly charged and often emotional discussions in today's society. One concerns the optimism and promise surrounding information technologies of computers and the internet; the other involves the growing pessimism and despair about the nation's schools...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Written from the viewpoint of the teacher, this successful book does an exceptional job of realistically detailing the use of media and technology in today's classrooms. The focus on the selection, utilization, and evaluation of media, along with new full-color photographs and more than 100 illustrations, make it one of the most comprehensive instructional media texts available...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "An exploration of the benefits and problems of using the Internet in education." (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is changing the face of education. In this timely and accessible book, Chris Abbott examines the process by which ICT, and in particular its role in relation to literacy, has become central to national educational policies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book deals with controversial issues about technology and its use in classrooms. Issues include the educational application and classroom implementation of new communications technologies such as e-mail, the Internet and World Wide Web; laptop computers, school television newscasts, hypermedia environments, distance education, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the like...read more