Instructional Technology and Media for Learning - Softcover

Smaldino, Sharon E.; Russell, James D.; Heinich, Robert; Molenda, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131136828 ISBN 13: 9780131136823

Publisher: Pearson, 2004

Synopsis

For courses in Instructional Media and Technology.

Now even more applied, the eighth edition of Instructional Technology and Media for Learning offers a unique chapter-case framework grounded in the popular ASSURE model. This new, integrated chapter-case framework teaches readers to apply current and future computer, multimedia, Internet/intranet, learning foundations, and audiovisual technologies to classroom instruction. It also assists readers in connecting chapter concepts, Companion Website, and CD-ROM resources to classroom application, guides readers through a full case using the ASSURE model, and provides readers with valuable practice in applying the ASSURE model to create lesson plans for their own classrooms.

About this title

About the Author

Sharon E. Smaldino. Dr. Smaldino is the L. D. and Ruth Morgridge Endowed Chair for Teacher Education in the College of Education at Northerp Illinois University. She was a professor of Educational Technology at the University of Northern Iowa for many years prior to moving to NIU. Sharon received her Ph.D. in 1987 from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Prior to that she received an M.A. in Elementary Education and served for more than a dozen years as teacher, speech therapist, and special educator in school districts from Florida to Minnesota. At Northern Iowa she taught an introductory educational media course for undergraduates and graduate majors and served as coordinator of the Educational Technology program. Dr. Smaldino also taught graduate courses in Instructional Development, Instructional Computing Design, Desktop Publishing, and Selection and Integration. She has received several awards for her outstanding teaching. In her current role, she is focused in working with faculty and teachers to integrate technology into the learning process. Presenting at state, national, and international conferences, Sharon has become an important voice on applications of technology in the classroom and in distance education. In addition to her teaching and consulting, Dr. Smaldino serves as president of AECT, served on the board of directors of IVLA, and has written articles for state and national journals on her primary research interest, effective technology integration in learning. She worked on a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology (PT3) grant using the Web to deliver information and case studies of teachers using technology in schools. She has also worked on a Teacher Quality Enhancement grant which identified technology as an important aspect of ensuring quality learning environments.

James D. Russell. Dr. Russell is Professor Emeritus of Educational Technology at Purdue University. He still teaches at Purdue during the summer and fall semesters. Jim works part-time for Purdue's Center for Instructional Excellence, where he conducts workshops on teaching techniques and consults on instructional improvement. During spring semesters he is visiting professor of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems at Florida State University. There he also works part-time for the Office of Distributed and Distance Learning. A former high school mathematics and physics teacher, Jim has taught for more than forty years. He has won numerous honors for his teaching at Purdue, including his department's Outstanding Teacher Award and the School of Education's Best Teacher Award. He was also selected as a member of Purdue's teaching academy and inducted into Purdue's Book of Great Teachers. His specialty areas, in which he has achieved national prominence through his writings and presentations, are presentation skills and using media and technology in classrooms. Through his teaching, workshops, consulting, and this textbook, Jim continues to make a significant impact on classroom teaching practice.

From the Back Cover

Now even more applied, the eighth edition of Instructional Technology and Media for Learning offers a unique chapter-case framework grounded in the popular ASSURE model. This new, integrated chapter-case framework teaches readers to apply current and future computer, multimedia, Internet/intranet, online learning, and audiovisual technologies to classroom instruction. It also assists readers in connecting chapter concepts, Companion Website, and CD-ROM resources to classroom application; guides readers through a full case using the ASSURE model; and provides readers with valuable practice in applying the ASSURE model to create lesson plans for their own classrooms.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• ASSURE: Case Challenge – Engaging case scenarios are introduced at the beginning of Chapters 4-12 to illustrate for readers how technology and media can be integrated into learning activities.
• ASSURE Case Connection – Questions throughout the chapter encourage readers to connect the chapter content to the ASSURE Case Challenge and classroom practice.
• ASSURE Case in Practice – Engaging case scenarios are introduced at the beginning of Chapters 4-12 to illustrate for readers how technology and media can be integrated into learning activities.
• ASSURE Case Challenge – An expanded ASSURE Case Challenge, this end-of-chapter feature provides readers with a complete classroom example of technology integration using the ASSURE model.
• Create Your Own ASSURE Lesson – After experiencing a full ASSURE Case in Practice, readers can create their own lesson plan using the ASSURE model and scenarios from their own classroom situations or from those provided on the Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/smaldino.
• Classroom Link Portfolio CD-ROM – Enhanced functionality provides more accessible lesson planning, and selection rubric tools allow students to easily create more than one development portfolio linked to the ISTE NETS"T standards.
• Connection to ISTE NETS"T Standards – Authors provide a chapter-by-chapter connection and end-of-chapter activities tied to the ISTE NETS"T standards. See a correlation table of these connections inside the front cover.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131136828
• ISBN 13: 9780131136823
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432