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Educating the First Digital Generation
Paul G. Harwood, Victor Asal
Book Code: C8959
ISBN: 0-275-98959-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98959-0
208 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 8/30/2007
List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Educate US
Reviews:
  • The two authors (both in political science) discuss the impact of information technology on modern K-12 schools and their students, focusing mainly on the US. Subjects include issues of privacy in a wired classroom, how students and teachers integrate digital technology into the teaching and learning experience, the sources of inequality in access to technology education, electronic cheating, and distance learning.
    —Reference & Research Book News     November 2007
  • [E]xplores how today's information technology is changing how we educate and are educated. The book includes accounts from K-12 teachers who are incorporating technology into their classroom environments. The use of close-circuit cameras, electronic cheating, and distance learning are discussed at length.
    —Library Media Connection     November/December 2007
Description: Asal and Harwood explore how today's information technology is changing how we educate and are educated. Focusing on the United States, with useful insights from the classroom digital revolution in a few other key places (the United Kingdom, Australia, and India), the authors investigate the impact of today's technologies on education -- how they impact teachers and teaching, children and learning, and the intersection of teaching and learning. For example, they tell us what the educational impact of having over 60% of America online is. The authors explain exactly how new technologies are changing the learning environment in and out of the classroom with a focus on the effects on K-12 education. Chapters include vignettes about children who are integrating information technologies into their lives at school and at home and those children who for a variety of reasons, most notably, socio-economic, have found themselves excluded as full members of the first digital generation. There are also accounts from K-12 teachers who are incorporating technology into their classroom environments. Using closed-circuit cameras, electronic cheating, and distance learning are all also discussed at length.
LC Card Number: 2007018648
LCC Class: LB1028
Dewey Class: 371
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