Emerging Technologies for the Classroom A Learning Sciences Perspective [Paperback]

This book provides contemporary examples of the ways in which educators can use digital technologies to create effective learning environments that support improved learning and instruction. These examples are guided by multiple conceptual and methodological traditions evolving from the learning sciences and instructional technology communities as well as other communities doing important work on learning technologies. In particular, the book provides examples of technology innovations and the ways in which educators can use them to foster deep understanding, collaboration, creativity, invention, and reflection. Additional examples demonstrate the ways in which emerging mobile and networked technologies can help extend student learning beyond the confines of the classroom wall and support student-directed learning and new media literacies.This book surveys innovative technology, showing how educators can use it to foster understanding, collaboration, creativity, invention and reflection. Describes emerging mobile and network technology that can help extend learning beyond the classroom.

From the reviews:

This book will be an asset to educators from high schools to universities. It should also be of interest to researchers wishing to communicate new research findings. (Soubhik Chakraborty, Computing Reviews, September, 2013)

Nancy C. Lavigne is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on students problem solving and reasoning on tasks that require application of statistical knowledge, and using the research on students thinking to design environments that foster and enhance learning in STEM. She is a member of the International Society for the Learning Sciences, the American Educational Research Association, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. She received her M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in l3A