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Useful Resources for K-12 Teachers

E-Journal

Electronic Journals

The electronic journals refereed to on this web site  include articles related to Learning Technologies, Communications and Culture.

URL: gopher://ccnucd.cudenver.edu/h0/UCD/dept/edu/IT/ryder/itc_data/ejournals.html

Mining the Internet columns from The Computing Teacher/Learning and Leading with Technology

This is a selection of over 10 articles of Judi Harris' columns from The Computing Teacher/Learning and Leading with Technology.

URL: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/Mining/Overview.html

Articles Related to Technology Education

This Web site provides several on-line articles related to technology education.

URL: http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/trinity/advice.html

The Teacher Talk Home Page

The Teacher Talk is an electronic journal published by the Center for Adolescent Studies at the School of Education, Indiana University. It is a publication for preservice, secondary education teachers. It exists as a series of World Wide Web documents. The topics of previous issues include: classroom management styles, bridging the generation gap, cultural diversity in the classrooms, and mental health issues.

URL: http://www.clearinghouse.net/cgi-bin/chadmin/viewframe/Education/teaching_and_pedagogy/lesson_plans?1010

Lesson Plans Archives

K-12 Lesson Plans Resources

This web site lists several lesson plans archives.

• askERIC Lesson Plans Gopher
• cec mini lessons: Columbia Education Center lesson plans
• connections +: Internet resources linked to subject-area content standards
• ee-link: WWW site for environmental education

 URL: http://www.booksatoz.com/k12/lesson.htm

Software Archives

America Online Game Network

This web site is a good source of free games software for Windows. What makes it a good archive is that it provide a screen shot of the game, software size information, created date, rating, and also a short description.



URL: http://members.aol.com/gamenet/index.html

Softseek

This is a good source of all kinds of software, including games. But users have to use good judgment to decide which ones are educational.

URL: http://www.softseek.com/ 

Virtual Software Library

The Virtual Software Library (VSL) is one of the powerful tool available on the Web for finding software on the Internet. It consists of two parts:

• the VSL back-end which keeps updating a growing database of over 130,000 software files available from the 22 largest shareware, and
• freeware archives on the Internet
URL: http://castor.acs.oakland.edu/cgi-bin/vsl-front

Sander's KeyScreen Previewer

There are thousands of Shareware & Freeware available on the Internet today. To help the user decide which application has all the features you are looking for, Sander's KeyScreen Previewer attempts to show which one is the Best (or Better), and show viewers the first few screens of the program along with some helpful Key Tips. The viewer will then be able to determine which shareware or freeware looks like the right download for you. This is very helpful for the viewer to make selection.

Currently, this web site offers a total of 332 applications ( along with the fast download links ) in 12 different categories.  Each application contains average 4-5 of Key Screen Shot(s) for previewing the features in advance.



URL: http://www.keyscreen.com/relaxfun.htm

Other Resources

Selected Educational Resources on the Web

These useful links are collected by Learning Technology and Distance Education Department at University of Wisconsin.

URL: http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/grp/seledres.htm

On-Line Educational Resources listed by Department of Education

Students, teachers, state education agencies, and others concerned about teaching and learning are using the Internet to create and locate educational materials. This makes the Internet a wonderful place for education. The Department of Education homepage provides links to its own servers and sites run by organizations funded by the Department, as well as other valuable educational locations.

The many resources on the Internet are organized into six categories. These are:
 

• Federal Government Educational and Library Resources
• General Catalogs and Subject Trees on Education
• Educational Institutions and Education Support Institutions
• Libraries
• Educational Associations and Organizations
• Curricular Resources and Networking Projects

URL: http://www.ed.gov/EdRes/EdRes.html

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), established in 1966, is a national information system designed to provide users with access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ERIC is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and the National Library of Education.

• Links to all ERIC Sites
• FAQs About ERIC
• Online ERIC Publications Catalog
• Search the ERIC Database

URL: http://www.aspensys.com/eric/

Celebrities in Cognitive Science

This web site furnishes information on authors, critics and philosophers in the cognitive science field whom are mentioned in this electronic textbook, including : Vannevar Bush, Seymore Papert,  Roger Schank,  Herbert Simon,  Lev Vygotsky.

URL: http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/cogsci.html  

Learning Concepts

This web site provides explanations of learning concepts mentioned in this electronic textbooks, including:

• Cooperative and group learning
• Computers and interactions
• Cognitive styles
• Constructivism
• Context and situation
• Problem-solving
• Scaffolding

URL: http://www.oltc.edu.au/cp/05.html#ref19

Software Module

This page describes several of the software types. It has listed titles that seem to represent the type to help the viewer get an idea. Most titles will fit into several categories.

URL: http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/emc300/software/typ_info.html

Educational paradigms

This on-line paper is taken from a paper written by Professor Tom Reeves (WWW: http://itech1.coe.uga.edu/Reeves.html). It discusses four paradigms that guide research in education and the social sciences.

• Paradigm # 1: Analytic-Empirical-Positivist-Quantitative Paradigm
• Paradigm # 2: Constructivist-Hermeneutic-Interpretivist-Qualitative Paradigm
• Paradigm # 3: Critical Theory-Neomarxist-Postmodern-Praxis Paradigm
• Paradigm # 4: Eclectic-Mixed Methods-Pragmatic Paradigm

The purpose of the on-line paper is to provides readers with a better basis for understanding that other ways of knowing, whether it is constructivist, critical, or pragmatic,  are all valid in thinking about and implementing models of instructional design to maximize effective teaching and learning.

URL: http://www.oltc.edu.au/cp/refs/reeves_paradigms.html 

K-12 Projects connecting people, classes, educators

This page collects k-12 projects related with connecting people, classes, and educators.  It may be used as a starting point for a collaborative learning project.

URL: http://infoserver.etl.vt.edu/~/Laughon/Sally_p.html 

AERA Home Page - American Educational Research Association

This is the home page of AERA. AERA is one of  the most prominent international professional organization with the primary goal of advancing educational research and its practical application. Its more than 20,000 members include educators; administrators; directors of research, testing or evaluation in federal, state and local agencies; counselors; evaluators; graduate students; and behavioral scientists. The broad range of disciplines represented by the membership includes education, psychology, statistics, sociology, history, economics, philosophy, anthropology, and political science.

Users may start a search on the abstracts of all articles appearing in the five journals of the American Educational Research Association since 1966. The five journals are:
 

• Educational Researcher (ER)
• American Educational Research Journal (AERJ)
• Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA)
• Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (JEBS)
• Review of Educational Research (RER)

URL: http://aera.net/ 

Instructional Design Perspectives on Mathematics Education with Reference to Vygotsky's Theory of Social Cognition

The purpose of this web page is to offer some perspectives on mathematics education from an instructional design viewpoint. The authors do this in a somewhat eclectic fashion, beginning with an overview of the ideological "paradigm wars" within the instructional design community. Alternative philosophies of mind, including Vygotsky's emphasis on the social origins of cognition, have implications for the teaching of mathematics, as well as for instructional design generally. The authors conclude with some recommendations for the instructional design of mathematics education curricula that are consistent with a Vygotskian framework.

URL: http://ouray.cudenver.edu/~jlteslow/mathed.html 

Technology Glossary

This is an on-line glossary of terminology commonly used in the instructional technology fields.

URL: http://www.abacon.com/reynolds/ch4glo.html 

The EdWeb Dictionary

This dictionary defines Internet related words from ARPAnet to World-Wide Web especially for the K-12 educators.

URL: http://k12.cnidr.org:90/dic.html 

The University of Alberta's Cognitive Science Dictionary

The University of Alberta provides a good resource for understanding the cognitive science terminology.

URL: http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Pearl_Street/Dictionary/dictionary.html 
 

References in the Electronic Textbook

Copley, J.  (1992).  The integration of teacher education and technology: A constructivist model. In D. Carey, R. Carey, D. Willis, & J. Willis (Eds.), Technology and teacher education annual -- 1992 (pp. 617-622). Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Holland, J., & Skinner, B. (1961). The analysis of behavioral. New York: McGraw Hill.

Jonassen, D.  (1994, April). Thinking technology: Toward a constructivist design model. Educational Technology, 34(4), 35-36.

Knox, A. B. 1987. Helping adults learn. San Francisco/London: Jossey-Bass.

Levin, S. R.,  Toth, E. E., & Douglas, C.  (1993).  Earth Day treasure hunt: Developing successful activities on electronic networks. In  G. Davies and B. Samways (Eds.) Teleteaching ( pp. 557-562). Proceedings of the IFIP TC3 Third Teleteaching Conference, TeleTeaching 93, Trondheim, Norway, 20-25 August, 1993.

Maddux, C. D., Johnson, D. L., & Willis, J. W.  (1997).  Educational computing: Learning with tomorrow's technologies.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Maddux, C., & Willis, J. (1993).  Integrated learning systems and their alternatives: Problems and cautions. In G. Bailey (Ed.), Computer-based integrated learning systems (pp. 121-136).  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology.

Martin, L. (1992).  Detecting and defining science problems: A study of video-mediated lessons.  In L. Moll (Ed.), Vygotsky and education: Instructions and applications of sociohistorical psychology (pp. 372-402). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University.

Melnick, S. (1991, February). Electronic encyclopedias on compact disk (reading technology). Reading Teacher, 44 (6), 432-434.

Papert, S.  (1993).  The children's machine: Rethinking school in the age of the computer. New York: Basic Books.

Picciano, A. G. 1993. Computers in the schools. New York: Macmillan. (ILS)

Shore, A., &  Johnson, M. (1992, September).  Integrated learning systems: A vision for the future. Educational Technology, 32(9),36-39.

Williams, S. (1994).  Improving qualitative reasoning with an anchored computer simulation.  In T. Ottmann & I. Tomek (Eds.), Educational multimedia and hypermedia, 1994 (p. 692). Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

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