2004 - 2005 |
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Chapter 3 -- Research and Theory: Do Computers Help Education |
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These
resources are chosen to help supplement the ED 205
textbook. |
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These links help to provide remediation and enrichment to the ED 205 textbook. Your instructor will let you know if any of these links are mandatory for you to visit and read. | |||
Benefits of Technology Use -- This is the portion of the Department of Education’s web page dealing with the benefits of technology in the classroom | |||
The Benefits of Information Technology -- This article discusses some of the benefits of using technology in the schools | |||
NCREL's Critical Issue: Promoting Technology Use in Schools -- This article discusses the strengths of educational technology, and the importance of overcoming the hurdles to technology use in the classroom | |||
Students Speak Out on Benefits of Technology -- Not a scientific study, but a teacher discusses the benefits of using technology in the schools with her students (this is called anecdotal research). Interesting reading. | |||
The Impact of Computers on Schools: Two Authors, Two Perspective -- This is a nice article describing the books Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation by Donald Tapscott and Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds—for Better and Worse by Jane Healy. These books contend that there are negative effects of using computers in the schools | |||
The following links are from the actual chapter | |||
http://caret.iste.org/ | |||
http://www.big6.com/ | |||
http://www.microworlds.com/ | |||
Examples of Rubrics: http://www.expage.com/page/lebeaurubrics http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ |