Educating the First Digital Generation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275989590)

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.

Author: Paul G. Harwood,Victor Asal
ISBN-10: 0275989593
ISBN-13: 9780275989590
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2007
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.45h x 6.52w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/2007 pg. 66
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 206
Choice 05/01/2010