| Description |
vii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: @CH = Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Commitment and Focus -- 1. St. Mary's Elementary School -- @Quote = "The school needs new teachers for this new technological era. You can be -- those teachers." -- 2. Harriet Tubman Elementary School -- @Quote = "The computer helps me, but it doesn't take over. I still get to teach and -- monitor progress." -- 3. Longworth High School -- @Quote = "Take away the technology and there is no reason for our kids to be here." -- 4. Washington-Connors Elementary School -- @Quote = "As a superintendent, I'm data-rich but information-poor." -- 5. Mitchell Elementary School -- @Quote = "This school is the only way out for most of the kids here." -- Part II Commitment, Less Focus -- 6. St. John's High School -- @Quote = "The kids were bored; the teachers were bored. I gathered the faculty and -- asked how we could learn to do new things." -- 7. Longfellow Elementary School -- @Quote = "A lot of people turn the computer into a sitter, at school and at home. Not -- here." -- 8. Ludlow Springs School District -- @Quote = "We immerse kids in technology, but the missing piece is, how do we know -- that kids are learning?" -- 9. Western Hills School District -- @Quote = "When technology saves me time, then come see me." -- Part III Hit-or-Miss Commitment -- 10. Springdale High School -- @Quote = "We had plenty of computers, but we didn't have teachers who were ready to -- use them or an administration committed to technology." -- 11. Harrison Elementary Schools -- @Quote = "Whatever its value, technology will never replace good teaching." -- 12. Woodvale Middle School -- @Quote = "I love these kids. That box doesn't love these kids." -- 13. City Academy -- @Quote = "I have curriculum units saved from last year that I can't access." -- 14. Emerson Elementary School -- @Quote = "Computers in the future will be very different from what we have today. We -- can't get caught up with the mechanics." -- 15. Lambert Elementary School -- @Quote = "If you have the choice of providing keyboarding instruction or math -- preparation, it is going to be math." -- 16. Carter Elementary School -- @Quote = "The computers we have in our classrooms are so old I'm not going to take -- time to learn what I can do with them. I'll wait until we get new ones." -- Part IV Too Troubled to Focus -- 17. Alexanderville School District -- @Quote = "We had to clean and re-image each of our 1,150 computers, one at a time." -- 18. Porter Elementary School -- @Quote = "I have a school full of computers that the district won't support." -- 19. Fisher High School -- @Quote = "I spend half my day on authorizations." -- 20. Lincoln Elementary School -- @Quote = "When it's a choice between our test-prep books or the computer lab, I do the -- test prep." -- Part V Conclusions and Next Steps -- 21. Computer Use in the Classroom -- 22. So What Should We Do? -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author |
| Summary |
Publisher description: This inside look at the use of computers in schools takes you on a close-up and personal tour through a variety of schools that illustrate what's right and what's wrong with applications of education technology. Along the way, you'll discover leadership practices, teaching approaches, and management strategies that help you focus your computer usage to meet well-defined outcomes. Pflaum's discusses which students benefit from computers most and why, when the best time is to implement computers in the curriculum, how computers support standards and accountability efforts, and why computers are great tools for improving assessments |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Education -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States -- Case studies.
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Education -- United States -- Data processing -- Case studies.
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Educational technology -- United States -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Author |
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
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| LC no. |
2003024825 |
| ISBN |
0871208423 paperback alkaline paper |
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