Use media, technology, and the Internet to strengthen student learning and higher-level thinking skills.
Technology plus classroom equal success for students whose teachers act as agents for change through brain-friendly media. Topics covered:
- The effect of media on student motivation, behavior, and learning modalities
- Using media for lesson planning: objectives, information, skills, meaning, knowledge, models, real-world applications, and more
- Using media for teaching: from the basics through creative thinking, critical thinking, and higher-level thinking skills
- Using media to enhance student research projects and learning products
- Keeping up with the ‘Big Picture’
- Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
- Bibliography and index
Table of Content
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Vocabulary Pre-Test
1. The Importance of Media in the Classroom
Why Media is Brain Friendly
The Effect of Media on Student Modalities
The Effect of Media on Motivation
The Effect of Media on Behavior Management
The Effect of Media on Reaching Higher Levels of Thought
The Effect of Media on Real-World Applications
2. Using Media to Plan and Introduce a Lesson
Begin With Goals for the Learning
Build Declarative Objectives
Develop Procedural Objectives
Provide a Matrix or Rubric
3. Using Media for Teaching
The Basics
Using Technology to Teach Standards
Higher-Level Thinking Skills
4. Using Media to Enhance Student Products
Making Choices on Products
Following a Guide for Research
5. Viewing the Big Picture: Keeping Up
Being an Agent of Change
Creating a Plan for the Classroom
Technology = Success
Vocabulary Summary
Vocabulary Post-Test
References
Index
About the author
Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin′s bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her Ed D from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com
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