The Best of Learning & Leading with Technology Selections from Volumes 31–35

Table of Contents

preface by Leslie Conery

introduction

chapter 1 The First 30 Years of L&L

chapter 2 Issue Oriented
The Best Defense is a Good Offense
Anita McAnear

Equity in Practice
Anita McAnear

The Magic of Emerging Technology
Anita McAnear

chapter 3 Point/Counterpoint
Is the Goal of K–12 to Produce Employees or Learners?
Francis D. Head and Randy Edwards

Is It Time for a National Student Tracking System?
June Atkinson and Ruth Reynard

Is Chatspeak Destroying English?
Linda Howard and Greg Monfils

chapter 4 Features
Statistics for Success
Robert Kadel

Digital Citizenship: Addressing Appropriate Technology Behavior
Mike S. Ribble, Gerald D. Bailey, and Tweed W. Ross

Digital Citizenship: Focus Questions for Implementation
Mike S. Ribble and Gerald D. Bailey

Are You the Copy Cop?
Doug Johnson and Carol Simpson

Get the Word Out with List Servers
Laurence Goldberg

Avoid the Plague: Tips and Tricks for Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism
J.V. Bolkan

Designing the New School
J.V. Bolkan, Jennifer Roland, and Davis N. Smith

Social Justice: Choice or Necessity? Colleen Swain and Dave Edyburn
Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society Mitchel Resnick

chapter 5 Learning Connections
Business Ed: Simulations as Action Learning Devices
Dan Smith

Computer Science & ICT: Trash or Treasure? Evaluating a Web Site
Kathy Schrock

Early Childhood: Digesting a Story
Stacy Bodin

Foreign Language: Improving Students' Language Learning
Lyn C. Howell and Robert Rose

Health: Dynamic Human Anatomy
Ken Felker

Language Arts: Electronic Read-Arounds
Rick Monroe

Mathematics: Dynamic Visualizations
Margaret L. Niess

Multidisciplinary: Research, Deconstructed
Leslie Yoder

Science: Students as Environmental Consultants: Simulating Life Science Problems
Megan Roberts and Janet Mannheimer Zydney

Social Studies: Kids Galore Helping Kids in Darfur
Wendy Drexler

chapter 6 As I See "IT"
Teacher-to-Teacher Mentoring
Kathleen Gora and Janice Hinson

The Mature Family
Marilyn Brooks

Herding Cats
Don Hall

chapter 7 Research Windows
Research into Practice
John W. Collins

Ethics in Ed Tech Research
Robert Kadel

Does Your District Need a Technology Audit?
Howard Pitler

chapter 8 Media Matters
Substantive Searching: Thinking and Behaving Info-Fluently
Joyce Valenza

Blogging and the Media Specialist
Doug Johnson

Blogging and the Media Specialist, Part 2
Frances Jacobson Harris

Wikipedia: Ban It or Boost It?
Doug Johnson

chapter 9 Project-Based Learning
Building Better Projects
Diane McGrath with Mark Viner and Allen Sylvester

Taking the Plunge
Diane McGrath and Nancy Sands

Visualize, Visualize, Visualize: Designing Projects for Higher-Order Thinking
Pearl Chen and Diane McGrath

chapter 10 Connected Classroom
A Space for "Writing without Writing"
Sara Kajder and Glen Bull

Folk Taxonomies
Glen Bull

Educational Crowdsourcing
Glen Bull

chapter 11 Miscellaneous Columns
Guest Editorial: A Proposal for Banning Pencils
Doug Johnson

ISTE in Action: Systemic Leadership
Idelma Quintana

Voices Carry: Reframing the Debate
Hilary Goldmann

chapter 12 Product Reviews
GTCO CalComp InterWrite PRS RF
J.V. Bolkan

EMTeachline Mathematics Software
David K. Pugalee and Margaret Adams

GeeGuides geeArt16
Savilla Banister

chapter 13 Buyer's Guide
Student Response Systems
Multimedia Laptops
Virtual Worlds

chapter 14 Member Profiles
Hungry Minds: Daphne Griffin
Promoting Ed Tech Use in the Pacific Northwest: NCCE
Texas Instruments Strategies Add Up
Teaching Teachers to Create “Sticky� Learning: SIGTE

chapter 15 The Future of L&L by Kate Conley

color section The Best of L&L: Art

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