Educating the First Digital Generation
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.

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Educating the First Digital Generation
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.

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Educating the First Digital Generation

Educating the First Digital Generation

by Paul G. Harwood, Victor Asal
Educating the First Digital Generation

Educating the First Digital Generation

by Paul G. Harwood, Victor Asal

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780275989590
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/30/2007
Series: Educate US
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Paul G. Harwood is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of North Florida, Jacksonville.

Victor Asal is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rockefeller College, SUNY Albany.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

1 Introduction: Technology in the Classroom, from Chalk and Slate to the Web 1

2 The First Digital Generation: In Their Own Words 27

3 Teachers: In Their Own Words 51

4 Digital Divide: Can America's Children Ever Be "E-qual"? 79

5 Big Brother: Privacy in the Wired Classroom 101

6 The Electronic Cheat: A Culture of Cut and Paste 123

7 Distance Learning: Virtual Teaching 147

8 Conclusion: Looking to the Information Highway Ahead 161

Appendix A Investigating the First Digital Generation: interview Methodology and Interviewee Profiles 169

Appendix B Investigating the Teachers of the First Digital Generation: Interview Methodology and Teacher Profiles 181

Index 189

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