|
Showing 1 - 6 of
6 matches in All Departments
Everyone can learn science. How can science courses help learners
refine their understanding of science topics by making science
relevant to their lives? This book describes the knowledge
integration approach to science teaching and learning and contrasts
it with typical instruction that implements the absorption
approach. Science Learning and Instruction: * Synthesizes a large
body of literature on knowledge integration patterns * Illustrates
the advantages of knowledge integration * Clarifies how teachers
can guide students to become independent learners * Shows
curriculum developers and designers how to take advantage of
technology to promote inquiry and understanding of science By
viewing the many intuitive ideas that students develop to explain
the natural world as a starting point, this book illustrates how
science activities can lead to coherent understanding. The book
shows how conducting hands-on and virtual experiments,
interrogating scientific simulations, and collaborating with peers
can contribute to lifelong learning. Instruction aimed at knowledge
integration can empower everyone to take advantage of their natural
curiosity about the world and explore the wonder of science.
Everyone can learn science. How can science courses help learners
refine their understanding of science topics by making science
relevant to their lives? This book describes the knowledge
integration approach to science teaching and learning and contrasts
it with typical instruction that implements the absorption
approach. Science Learning and Instruction: * Synthesizes a large
body of literature on knowledge integration patterns * Illustrates
the advantages of knowledge integration * Clarifies how teachers
can guide students to become independent learners * Shows
curriculum developers and designers how to take advantage of
technology to promote inquiry and understanding of science By
viewing the many intuitive ideas that students develop to explain
the natural world as a starting point, this book illustrates how
science activities can lead to coherent understanding. The book
shows how conducting hands-on and virtual experiments,
interrogating scientific simulations, and collaborating with peers
can contribute to lifelong learning. Instruction aimed at knowledge
integration can empower everyone to take advantage of their natural
curiosity about the world and explore the wonder of science.
Most would agree that the acquisition of problem-solving ability is
a primary goal of education. The emergence of the new information
technologiesin the last ten years has raised high expectations with
respect to the possibilities of the computer as an instructional
tool for enhancing students' problem-solving skills. This volume is
the first to assemble, review, and discuss the theoretical,
methodological, and developmental knowledge relating to this
topical issue in a multidisciplinary confrontation of highly
recommended experts in cognitive science, computer science,
educational technology, and instructional psychology. Contributors
describe the most recent results and the most advanced
methodological approaches relating to the application of the
computer for encouraging knowledge construction, stimulating
higher-order thinking and problem solving, and creating
powerfullearning environments for pursuing those objectives. The
computer applications relate to a variety of content domains and
age levels.
Internet Environments for Science Education synthesizes 25 years of
research to identify effective, technology-enhanced ways to convert
students into lifelong science learners--one inquiry project at a
time. It offers design principles for development of innovations;
features tested, customizable inquiry projects that students,
teachers, and professional developers can enact and refine; and
introduces new methods and assessments to investigate the impact of
technology on inquiry learning. The methodology--design-based
research studies--enables investigators to capture the impact of
innovations in the complex, inertia-laden educational enterprise
and to use these findings to improve the innovation. The
approach--technology-enhanced inquiry--takes advantage of global,
networked information resources, sociocognitive research, and
advances in technology combined in responsive learning
environments. Internet Environments for Science Education advocates
leveraging inquiry and technology to reform the full spectrum of
science education activities--including instruction, curriculum,
policy, professional development, and assessment. The book offers:
*the knowledge integration perspective on learning, featuring the
interpretive, cultural, and deliberate natures of the learner; *the
scaffolded knowledge integration framework on instruction
summarized in meta-principles and pragmatic principles for design
of inquiry instruction; *a series of learning environments,
including the Computer as Learning Partner (CLP), the Knowledge
Integration Environment (KIE), and the Web-based Inquiry Science
Environment (WISE) that designers can use to create new inquiry
projects, customize existing projects, or inspire thinking about
other learning environments; *curriculum design patterns for
inquiry projects describing activity sequences to promote critique,
debate, design, and investigation in science; *a partnership model
establishing activity structures for teachers, pedagogical
researchers, discipline experts, and technologists to jointly
design and refine inquiry instruction; *a professional development
model involving mentoring by an expert teacher; *projects about
contemporary controversy enabling students to explore the nature of
science; *a customization process guiding teachers to adapt inquiry
projects to their own students, geographical characteristics,
curriculum framework, and personal goals; and *a Web site providing
additional links, resources, and community tools at
www.InternetScienceEducation.org
Internet Environments for Science Education synthesizes 25 years of
research to identify effective, technology-enhanced ways to convert
students into lifelong science learners--one inquiry project at a
time. It offers design principles for development of innovations;
features tested, customizable inquiry projects that students,
teachers, and professional developers can enact and refine; and
introduces new methods and assessments to investigate the impact of
technology on inquiry learning. The methodology--design-based
research studies--enables investigators to capture the impact of
innovations in the complex, inertia-laden educational enterprise
and to use these findings to improve the innovation. The
approach--technology-enhanced inquiry--takes advantage of global,
networked information resources, sociocognitive research, and
advances in technology combined in responsive learning
environments. Internet Environments for Science Education advocates
leveraging inquiry and technology to reform the full spectrum of
science education activities--including instruction, curriculum,
policy, professional development, and assessment. The book offers:
*the knowledge integration perspective on learning, featuring the
interpretive, cultural, and deliberate natures of the learner; *the
scaffolded knowledge integration framework on instruction
summarized in meta-principles and pragmatic principles for design
of inquiry instruction; *a series of learning environments,
including the Computer as Learning Partner (CLP), the Knowledge
Integration Environment (KIE), and the Web-based Inquiry Science
Environment (WISE) that designers can use to create new inquiry
projects, customize existing projects, or inspire thinking about
other learning environments; *curriculum design patterns for
inquiry projects describing activity sequences to promote critique,
debate, design, and investigation in science; *a partnership model
establishing activity structures for teachers, pedagogical
researchers, discipline experts, and technologists to jointly
design and refine inquiry instruction; *a professional development
model involving mentoring by an expert teacher; *projects about
contemporary controversy enabling students to explore the nature of
science; *a customization process guiding teachers to adapt inquiry
projects to their own students, geographical characteristics,
curriculum framework, and personal goals; and *a Web site providing
additional links, resources, and community tools at
www.InternetScienceEducation.org
This edited collection synthesizes current research on the most
promising methods and models for designing coherent science
instruction. Arising from the National Science Foundation-funded
Delineating and Evaluating Coherent Instructional Designs for
Education (DECIDE) project, this volume combines the insights of
researchers from two Centers for Teaching and Learning. The book
offers principles and criteria for design of instruction leading to
coherent understanding of science. It discusses how courses can
help students interpret contemporary scientific dilemmas like
global warming and take full advantage of technology. Too often in
today's science classes, students learn isolated facts rather than
connections among ideas and are unprepared to apply scientific
thinking and principles outside of checking off answers on
standardized tests.""Designing Coherent Science Education""
demonstrates how effective instruction prepares learners to connect
scientific principles to the schoolyard and beyond. ""Designing
Coherent Science Education"" offers policy recommendations to
transform science courses so that they meet the needs of all
students and lure more students into scientific careers. The
collection further addresses how to use technology in the
classrooms to design coherent science instruction.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|