Projects for New Technologies in Education: Grades 6-9

by Bloomsbury Academic

Overview

This text integrates CD-ROMs, online databases, telecommunications, and information networks (e.g., CompuServe, America Online, 20th Century Video Encyclopedia) into resource-based instruction-cooperatively planned by the teacher-librarian and the classroom teacher-for students working in cooperative learning groups. Step-by-step procedures for planning and implementing technologies into both library and classroom curriculums help educators use technology to teach research skills. With a hands-on approach, this book complements Barron's New Technologies for Education, 3d edition (Libraries Unlimited, 1997) (p. 00), and will serve as a practical planning tool for busy school librarians and media specialists, classroom teachers, computer coordinators, and anyone involved with educational technology. A variety of subjects are covered in the units (e.g., immigration, environment), and projects are flexible enough to allow for the interchange of technologies. Provided for each are an introd

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563080838
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/15/1994
Series:	Teacher Ideas Press
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	11 - 14 Years

About the Author

NORMA HELLER is a former middle school librarian with the New York City School Library System and a graduate of Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science, Brooklyn, New York.