Powering up : learning to teach well with technology /
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| Author / Creator: | Coppola, Eileen M. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Teachers College Press, c2004. |
| Description: | xvi, 189 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5456649 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Paradox: The Promise and Perils of New Technologies
- Researching Success: A Natural Experiment
- Part I. Computers, Pedagogy, and School Reform: Relationships and Intersections
- 1. High Technology, High Standards, and Cognitive Research: How Can Schools Meet Their Promise?
- The Vision: Computers, New Pedagogies, High Standards
- New Approaches: Merging School Reform, Standards, and Technology
- 2. Keeping Your Eye on the Ball: Instruction at the Center of School Organization
- Researching Instruction in Context: Moving from the Center Outward
- Background Knowledge: The Baseline School
- Part II. Learning to Teach with Technology: Five Narratives
- 3. Beginning with the Whole: Contexts and Commonalities
- Woodland High School
- Professional Learning: Commonalities
- 4. Using Computers to Measure, Analyze, Model: The Physics Class
- Instruction: A Hands-On Approach
- Professional Learning: Theory, Intensive Experience, Continuous Improvement
- 5. Strengthening Interdisciplinary and Multidimensional Understanding: Ancient Greek Language, History, and Literature
- Instruction: Motivation, Sequencing, Depth
- Professional Learning: University-Based, Self-Taught, Relying on Students
- 6. Simulating the Real World: Modern Economics
- Instruction: "Knowing When Someone Is Trying to Do You In"
- Professional Learning: Waiting for Technology to Meet the Need
- 7. The Soul and Process of Writing: Required Sophomore English
- Instruction: The Writing Workshop
- Professional Learning: Developing a Pedagogy Based on the Writing Process
- 8. Powering Up Business Tools: A Course in Entrepreneurship
- Instruction: Integrating Computers into the Business World
- Professional Learning: A Computer User from the Beginning
- Part III. Teacher Learning and Organizational Culture: Implications for Leadership and Policy
- 9. Teacher Learning: How New Uses of Technology Are Created in Classrooms
- The Commitment to Use Computers
- Defining Instructional Problems
- Scanning for New Ideas and Practices
- Creating New Curriculum and Practice
- Trying, Reflecting, and Refining
- Relationships Among the Five Learning Processes
- 10. Completing the Puzzle: Learning and Organizational Culture
- The Technological Infrastructure
- Time, Space, and Opportunities to Work with Colleagues
- Norms, Values, and Ideas: The Essence of Culture
- Not a Formula: Cultural Coherence, Consistency, and Appropriateness
- Moving Back Toward the Center: Organizational Culture's Influence on Professional Learning
- 11. Recommendations for Leaders
- Appendix. Method and Approach
- References
- Index
- About the Author
