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by Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn
Amazon Price: $21.75
Customer Review: "Disrupting Class" is a very interesting read for people interested in improving education here in the U.S. Dr. Christensen argues that the main problem with traditional schools is that they cannot provide individualized instruction that best meets each student's needs. As a home educator, I couldn't agree with him more. He sees computer-based learning as a "disruptive innovation" that will solve the problem of how to provide this type of "student-centric" learning to the masses (since not everyone can homeschool or hire a tutor for their offspring).
Dr. Christensen revisits the argument from his earlier book "The Innovator's Dilemma" that "disruptive innovations" don't initially compete directly against the current market leader's product but rather against nonconsumption. For example, in the '70's Digital had a very successful market for $200k minicomputers. Apple couldn't directly compete with DEC's minicomputers because their personal computers weren't good enough at the time to solve the problems that DEC's customers had. So Apple marketed its IIe PC as a relatively affordable toy for kids. Kids were nonconsumers so it didn't matter to them that the Apple wasn't as powerful as the existing DEC minicomputers. A few years down the road, however, improvements in PC technology rendered DEC's minicomputers obsolete.
Dr. Christensen argues that the traditional government-run education system will in the near future be "disrupted" by the innovation of computer-based learning. At first, online learning will compete against nonconsumption by offering classes in subjects where there isn't enough demand in any given school to justify offering a traditional course (such as a very advanced math one or an unusual foreign language). But eventually, He believes that the technology will improve such that computer-based learning will render the traditional model of education obsolete.
In "Disrupting Class", he postulates that demand for computer-based high school classes will follow an S-curve that will start to "flip" (significantly accelerate) in the year 2012. In the years between 2012 and 2018, Dr. Christensen projects that the share of online courses will grow from 5% to 50% of all high school courses. That timetable seems a bit ambitious to me personally, but I believe he's got the basic right idea about the growth in the demand for online classes.
The main problem I had with "Disrupting Class" is with the way...
by Will Richardson
Amazon Price: $26.05
Customer Review: I am an elementary school teacher who values technology integration in classrooms. Initially, the book begins slow with an overabundant amount of details about the simplicity of blogging. Some advice is given to lead novices in the right direction tailored to their blogging interests.
An aside: As I was searching on the Internet for safe and secure blog sites for young students, I found this website: http://mhetherington.net/blogs/?p=8 which was created by a middle school teacher with similar interests in student technology involvement. It details steps that can lead any teacher into a free (yet time consuming) setup for students to use. (I used this website to create my own blog site for my 32 fourth grade students and it worked marvelously!)
The author then introduced the power of wikis. I really appreciated the real-life accounts from actual educators who use wikis for group projects with students. I did feel a like the examples came mostly from secondary education and did not focus heavily on primary student possibilities with wikis. PB wiki (peanut butter wiki) for educators was explained and the book offered some great resources for teachers on a low budget with wiki interests.
Next, RSS feeds were explained. Although much of the explanations of RSS feeds were still above my head in understanding, I learned a number of values in using RSS feeds with the Web. One of the examples used in the book was that one could subscribe to all RSS feeds in Cyberspace about a topic of interest. If a person is interested in "Global Warming in California," they can subscribe to any place on the Internet that may use those words as an update when stories or writing is produced and submitted on websites you may not know existed. RSS feeding is a promising method of allowing the computer to do the searching for you.
During my reading of this book, I posted two blogs (on blogger.com) about my reflections. Within 3 days of my writing, the author of this book, Will Richardson, posted a comment on my blog thanking me for reading his book. My inferences told me he may have an RSS feed in Cyberspace that brings him news about whenever information is posted about himself or his book. I was impressed by his comment as this showed me he practiced what he preached in his book and really values the technology he promotes.
By the end of the book, podcasting, screencasting, and videos were introduced as well. In all...
by Michael J. Crawley
Amazon Price: $76.23
Customer Review: The graduate student as well as PhD researchers and Industry consultants are often faced with learning programs in double quick time and need references which are clear, concise, and have numerous worked out examples of how the program works. Furthermore it is often a daunting task not only to search the web for references, help, and worked out examples but searching through the numerous available books on the subject "using R."
I took a wild stab on this title from an advertisement I received from Wiley. In my opinion this text is not only has a great introduction to the essentials of the R language but a well rounded amount of information for nearly all foreseeable tasks I would be using R for.
To put it short, the title should be called "De 'ARGGHH!!!'ing R"
by Gwen Solomon, Lynne Schrum
Amazon Price: $34.95
Customer Review: I think it's a useful books for those who want to know more about web2 and desire to start using web2 in educational contexts especially in classes which creative writing and written collaboration is desired.
by Jason Cole, Helen Foster
Amazon Price: $35.99
Customer Review: Very pleased with the book, its content, and usefulness. Also, pleased with delivery and timing.
by Susie VanHuss, Connie Forde, Donna Woo
Amazon Price: $62.95
by Stewart Mader
Amazon Price: $19.79
Customer Review: Wikipatterns is a good book, but not a great one. It did help me clarify a lot of my doubt regarding the wiki technology and the book has a lot of case studies.
There are many patterns discussed in the book and also on the website. Choosing the right pattern would still be complicated task even after reading this book.
by Stephen M. Alessi, Stanley R. Trollip
Amazon Price: $100.26
Customer Review: Had to buy it for a class; execellent resource for it's target audience. Make sure you're a memeber of that target audience (instructional technologists) before you buy :)
by Howie Southworth, Kemal Cakici, Yianna Vovides, Susan Zvacek
Amazon Price: $16.49
Customer Review: I found this book to be very helpful when I began teaching on Blackboard. Sure, it's incomplete as previous reviewers have noted, and Blackboard is constantly evolving, so this book may not have the latest/greatest bells and whistles, but it serves a solid purpose as an introduction to Blackboard.
Tim Warneka
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by Gary R. Morrison, Deborah L. Lowther
Amazon Price: $79.52
Customer Review: This book presents the NteQ (iNtegrating Technology for inQuiry) model for integrating computers into the K-12 classroom (although most examples seem to come from grades 5-6). The model, which involves specifying objectives, specifying the problem, manipulating the data, presenting the results, and assessment, is very sound and effective. The organization of the book is very clear, and it would make a great choice for a graduate or upper level undergraduate education text, or even a self-study text. There are no study questions, but each chapter closes with a list of references and/or resources that will help readers find more information about the covered topics. I found the first 6 chapters, about general topics concerning integrating computers into the classroom, most useful. The remaining chapters each focus on how a particular type of application (such as word processing) can be integrated into classroom teaching. These chapters may contain some ideas for beginners, but they seemed a little basic relative to the depth of information in the earlier chapters.
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