{"product_id":"educating-the-first-digital-generation-9781578867981","title":"Educating the First Digital Generation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAsal 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[E]xplores how today's information technology is changing how we educate and are educated. The book includes accounts from K-12 teachers who are incorporating technology into their classroom environments. The use of close-circuit cameras, electronic cheating, and distance learning are discussed at length. * School Library Connection, November\/December 2007 *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a serious analysis of critical issues, far more than a mere summary of survery data. . . . The broad coverage of critical issues, the insightful discussion, the clarity of expression, and the colorful excerpts all make this book engaging and thought provoking. * Educational Technology, March\/April 2010 *\u003cbr\u003ethis text challenges educators to assess the value of contemporary digital technologies as modes of instruction....Recommended. * CHOICE, May 2010 *\u003cbr\u003eThe two authors (both in political science) discuss the impact of information technology on modern K-12 schools and their students, focusing mainly on the US. Subjects include issues of privacy in a wired classroom, how students and teachers integrate digital technology into the teaching and learning experience, the sources of inequality in access to technology education, electronic cheating, and distance learning. * Reference and Research Book News, November 2007 *","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041503445335,"sku":"9781578867981","price":36.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781578867981.jpg?v=1750950537","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/educating-the-first-digital-generation-9781578867981","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}