Enhancing learning with laptops in the classroom / Linda B. Nilson, Barbara E. Weaver, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nilson, Linda Burzotta.

Weaver, Barbara E.

Series:

New directions for teaching and learning 0271-0633 ; no. 101.

New directions for teaching and learning, 0271-0633 ; no. 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer-assisted instruction--United States.

Computer-assisted instruction.

Computer literacy--Study and teaching.

Computer literacy.

United States.

Laptop computers.

Computers--Study and teaching.

Computers.

Educational technology--United States.

Educational technology.

College teaching--United States.

College teaching.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

98 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2005]

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.

Notes:

"Spring 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0787980498

OCLC:

58969261