Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching - Softcover

Roblyer, M. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013042319X ISBN 13: 9780130423191

Publisher: Pearson, 2002

Synopsis

For courses in Computers in Education, Instructional Technology, or Instructional Media.

• Integration methods should be based in both learning theory and teaching practice. Integration should match specific teaching and learning needs.
• Old integration strategies are not necessarily bad; new strategies are not necessarily good.
• Using these three premises as a foundation, this text presents effective theory- and research-based strategies for integrating technology resources and technology-based methods into everyday classroom practices. It is written from the teacher's perspective, making it ideal for both novice and experienced computer users.

About this title

About the Author

M. D. Roblyer has been a technology-using teacher and a contributor to the field of educational technology for nearly 30 years. She began her exploration of technology's benefits for teaching in 1971 as a graduate student at one of the country's first successful instructional computer training sites, Pennsylvania State University, where she helped write tutorial literacy lessons in Coursewriter II on an IBM 1500 dedicated instructional mainframe. While obtaining a Ph.D. in instructional systems at Florida State University, she worked on several major courseware development and training projects with Control Data Corporation's PLATO system. After working as instructional technology coordinator for the Florida Educational Computing Project (the predecessor of what is now the state's Office of Educational Technology), she became a private consultant, working for companies such as Random House and the Apple Computer Company. In 1981-1982, she designed one of the early microcomputer software series, Grammar Problems for Practice, in conjunction with the Milliken Publishing Company.

She has written extensively and served as contributing editor for educational technology publications such as Educational Technology and Learning and Leading with Technology. Her book with Castine and King, Assessing the Impact of Computer-based Instruction: A Review of Research (Haworth, 1988), is widely considered the most comprehensive review and meta-analysis ever written on the effects of computer technology on learning. Her recent research has focused on identifying ways to help make distance learning courses and programs more effective learning experiences for students in high school and postsecondary education.

Currently, she is Adjunct Professor of Educational Technology, teaching online for the University of Maryland University College's web-based graduate programs from her home in Carrollton, Georgia. She is married to William R. Wiencke and is the mother of a daughter, Paige.

From the Back Cover

Integration methods should be rooted in both learning theory and teaching practice. Integration should match specific teaching and learning needs. Old integration strategies are not necessarily bad; new strategies are not necessarily good.

Using these three premises as a foundation, this text presents effective theory- and research-based strategies for integrating technology resources and technology-based methods into everyday classroom practices. It is written from the teacher's perspective, making it ideal for both novice and experienced computer users.

Features of the third edition include:

• New! Chapter 2 includes a Technology Integration Model for Teachers.
• New! Additional coverage of learning theories and assessment.
• New! A focus on relative advantages of technology tools.
• Unique coverage of integrating technology into specific content areas in Part IV.
• Free CD-ROM, updated and expanded for this edition, contains more than 500 technology integration ideas and strategies that are linked to the ISTE standards and to content area standards where appropriate―these strategies demonstrate the effective integration of a wide array of technology into every content area.
• CD-ROM is integrated with the text and the Companion Website through end-of-chapter activities that ask the reader to use content knowledge from the chapter and resources on the Companion Website and CD-ROM to create meaningful and technology-rich lessons, strategies, and projects.
• Free Starting Out on the Internet booklet packaged with the text

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 013042319X
• ISBN 13: 9780130423191
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 400