Education : Computers & Technology

Packed with ideas and instructional activities that cut across all content areas, this engaging book provides a comprehensive framework for promoting vital Web literacy skills in grades 3-8. Teacher-friendly special features include helpful graphics, sidebars, practical tips, and nearly 100 reproducibles. Using a research-based, classroom-tested model of Internet inquiry, the authors explain the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of helping diverse learners:. *Locate useful information sources on the Web. *Navigate the contents of a website. *Critically evaluate what they read online. *Synthesize the results of an Internet inquiry. *Express new knowledge in their own words more...

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What the book covers : ACT! 2007 For Dummies shows new users how to use the ACT! contact management/CRM software. The book is also for existing users who want to know more about ACT!, who are familiar with the basic features, but have yet to apply some of the more advanced features. more...

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The papers in this volume serve to highlight both recent progress in research on networked learning, and some of the main areas in which the students' perspectives on networked learning, patterns of interaction and online discourse, and the role of contextual factors are not yet fully understood. more...

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This work creates a foundation for the study and practice of computer-assisted language learning and provides an overview of ways to conceptualize and to conduct research in Call. It posits that all approaches to research have a place, and that researchers, teachers, and students have a role in the study of computer-enhanced language learning. more...

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How do young people navigate their way through school, home and the Internet? What value systems are they adopting? What strategies are young people using to learn: problem solving, trial and error, risk taking, common-sense learning, intuition or activity based learning? In order to motivate children to learn in classrooms, educational practices need to evolve from the content and range of young people’s personal experiences. In their first book, The Child’s World (ACER Press 2000), Margaret Robertson and Rod Gerber examined the idea that insight into how children interact with the world around them can be used to improve their ways of learning. Children’s Ways of Knowing explores further the experiences of children as they make sense of their environment. This collection of essays draws on contributions from experts in fields as diverse as education, information technology, popular culture, philosophy, geography, architecture and the environment. more...

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