Recapturing Technology for Education Keeping

Illustrates how technology can be used to enrich and enhance traditional approaches to instruction and re-establishes the legitimacy and urgency of tapping technology to make our schools relevant and effective once again. All who are interested in understanding Instructional Technology and its potential to positively impact education will want to read this book.

Mark Gura is former director of instructional technology for the New York City public school system. He works with Fordham University's Regional Educational Technology Center

Introduction: Must Tomorrow Remain the Prisoner of Yesterday?	v
1 Bits, Bytes, and Yeah Buts	1	(16)
2 What's at Stake?	17	(24)
3 Conceptions, Misconceptions, and Reconceptions: Instructional Technology Misunderstood	41	(32)
4 Let There Be No Doubt	73	(20)
5 Saying Nay to the Naysayers	93	(22)
6 The Convergence of Industry and Education: A New Relationship for a New Education	115	(18)
7 Higher Education: The Typewriter Generation and the Information Age	133	(14)
8 Dream Big	147	(14)
9 Eleven Ways Technology Reinvigorates Learning	161	(6)
Bibliography	167	(2)
Index	169	(10)
About the Authors	179

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