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Description:This issue is the first major publication on teaching with laptops in the classroom. Its primary purpose is to show that university instructors make pedagogically productive and novel use of laptops in the classroom. As the chapters illustrate, laptops indeed offer rich new opportunities to make classes more student-active, thereby enhancing student engagement and learning. Moreover, these benefits can accrue without compromising the quality of student-instructor interaction or increasing the student workload. The issue also has a timely secondary purpose: to advise institutional leaders on how to make a laptop mandate successful at their university. Clemson University's mandate has meet with tremendous and documented success. Their Laptop Faculty Development Program ensures that faculty interested in teaching with laptops receive extensive pedagogical as well as technical traiing before they take on a laptop course. Some of the more creative and effective laptop faculty are showcased in this volume.This is the 101st issue of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series "New Directions for Teaching and Learning."Contents: Laptops in class : what are they good for? What can you do with them? / Barbara E. Weaver, Linda B. Nilson --Laptops in psychology : conducting flexible in-class research and writing laboratories / Benjamin R. Stephens --Appreciating music : an active approach / Andrew R. Levin, Roy P. Pargas, with Joshua Austin --Teaching statistics by taking advantage of the laptop's ubiquity / Paul Hyden --Laptops in computer science : creating the "learning studio" / Roy P. Pargas, Kenneth A. Weaver --Teaching with laptops for the first time : lessons from a social science classroom / Ellen Granberg, James Witte --Incorporating laptop technologies into an animal sciences curriculum / Glenn Birrenkott, Jean A. Bertrand, Brian Bolt --Using laptops in engineering courses for real-time data collection and analysis / Matthew W. Ohland, Elizabeth A. Stephan --Laptops in the humanities : classroom walls come tumbling down / Barbara E. Weaver --Concluding comments : laptop learning communities / David G. Brown.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, #101). To get started finding Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, #101), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This issue is the first major publication on teaching with laptops in the classroom. Its primary purpose is to show that university instructors make pedagogically productive and novel use of laptops in the classroom. As the chapters illustrate, laptops indeed offer rich new opportunities to make classes more student-active, thereby enhancing student engagement and learning. Moreover, these benefits can accrue without compromising the quality of student-instructor interaction or increasing the student workload. The issue also has a timely secondary purpose: to advise institutional leaders on how to make a laptop mandate successful at their university. Clemson University's mandate has meet with tremendous and documented success. Their Laptop Faculty Development Program ensures that faculty interested in teaching with laptops receive extensive pedagogical as well as technical traiing before they take on a laptop course. Some of the more creative and effective laptop faculty are showcased in this volume.This is the 101st issue of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series "New Directions for Teaching and Learning."Contents: Laptops in class : what are they good for? What can you do with them? / Barbara E. Weaver, Linda B. Nilson --Laptops in psychology : conducting flexible in-class research and writing laboratories / Benjamin R. Stephens --Appreciating music : an active approach / Andrew R. Levin, Roy P. Pargas, with Joshua Austin --Teaching statistics by taking advantage of the laptop's ubiquity / Paul Hyden --Laptops in computer science : creating the "learning studio" / Roy P. Pargas, Kenneth A. Weaver --Teaching with laptops for the first time : lessons from a social science classroom / Ellen Granberg, James Witte --Incorporating laptop technologies into an animal sciences curriculum / Glenn Birrenkott, Jean A. Bertrand, Brian Bolt --Using laptops in engineering courses for real-time data collection and analysis / Matthew W. Ohland, Elizabeth A. Stephan --Laptops in the humanities : classroom walls come tumbling down / Barbara E. Weaver --Concluding comments : laptop learning communities / David G. Brown.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, #101). To get started finding Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, #101), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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