Projects for New Technologies in Education: Grades 6-9

By Norma Heller

This text integrates CD-ROMs, online databases, telecommunications, and information networks (e.g., CompuServe, America Online, 20th Century Video Encyclopedia) into resource-based instruction-cooperatively planned by the teacher-librarian and the classroom teacher-for students working in cooperative learning groups. Step-by-step procedures for planning and implementing technologies into both library and classroom curriculums help educators use technology to teach research skills. With a hands-on approach, this book complements Barron's New Technologies for Education, 3d edition (Libraries Unlimited, 1997) (p. 00), and will serve as a practical planning tool for busy school librarians and media specialists, classroom teachers, computer coordinators, and anyone involved with educational technology. A variety of subjects are covered in the units (e.g., immigration, environment), and projects are flexible enough to allow for the interchange of technologies. Provided for each are an introd

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563080834
• ISBN13: 9781563080838
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9

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