Computer Integrated Instruction Inservice Notebook Elementary School

Download or read book Computer-integrated Instruction Inservice Notebook, Elementary School written by David Moursund and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this notebook is to assist educators who are designing and implementing inservice education programs to facilitate the effective use of computer integrated instruction (CII) in schools. It is divided into the following five sections: (1) Effective Inservice (a brief summary of inservice literature focused on inservice dimensions and design principles); (2) Background Information (an overview of computers in education and a discussion of the roles of computers in problem solving); (3) Initiating/Planning an Inservice (suggestions for preliminary planning and activities and a sample timeline for those activities); (4) An Eight-Session Elementary School Inservice (2-hour sessions on interpreting data with graphs, integrating graphing software with existing materials, unstructured and structured data, structuring and analyzing data, database and word processing, prewriting activities with word processing, process writing conferences and Formula Vision, and revising and editing with a word processor); and (5) Instruments and Evaluation (a variety of instruments for needs assessment, formative evaluation, and summative evaluation). Each 2-hour elementary school inservice session contains some or all of the following: narrative overview, script (topics, objectives, materials, activities), timeline, handouts, and readings. Also included are appropriate articles from issues of "The Computing Teacher," and a Macintosh diskette. References are listed in the first three sections. (DB)