Books · Smart Education · Social Media · Springer

Social Media Tools in Experiential Internship Learning

Title: Social Media Tools in Experiential Internship Learning

Social Media Tools in Experiential Internship Learning

English | ISBN: 981151559X | 2020 | 144 pages


This book describes how a support structure can be built to enhance peer-to-peer (and also students-to-lecturers) communication and support. It informs lecturers on how they can decide if they should adopt one or more social media tools to facilitate students’ learning, communication, and support for an internship program. This book introduces a participatory design approach that can help develop a pedagogy that will make good use of social media tools on internship learning. It presents a framework for experiential internship learning, integrating helpful educational practices such as participatory design approach and the use of social media.

Books · Emerging Trends · Smart Education · Teaching · Uncategorized

Information Systems and Technologies to Support Learning

Title: Information Systems and Technologies to Support Learning: Proceedings of EMENA-ISTL 2018

Information Systems and Technologies to Support Learning: Proceedings of EMENA-ISTL 2018
English | Oct 2018 | ISBN: 303003576X, 3030132196 | 707 pages

This book features a selection of articles from the second edition of the conference Europe Middle East & North Africa Information Systems and Technologies to Support Learning 2018 (EMENA-ISTL’18), held in Fez, Morocco between 25th and 27th October 2018. EMENA-ISTL’18 was a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent findings and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges in information systems & technologies to support learning.

The main topics covered are: A) information systems technologies to support education; B) education in science, technology, engineering and Mathematics; C) emerging technologies in education learning innovation in the digital age; D) software systems, architectures, applications and tools; E) multimedia systems and applications; F) computer communications and networks; G) IOT, smart cities and people, wireless, sensor and ad-hoc networks; H) organizational models and information systems and technologies; I) human–computer Interaction; J) computers & security, ethics and data-forensic; K) health informatics, and medical informatics security; l) information and knowledge management; m) big data analytics and applications, intelligent data systems, and machine learning; n) artificial intelligence, high performance computing; o) mobile, embedded and ubiquitous systems; p) language and image processing, computer graphics and vision; and q) the interdisciplinary field of fuzzy logic and data mining.

Books · Educational Philosophy · ICT · Smart Education · Uncategorized

Creating a 21st Century Teaching and Learning Environment

Title: Creating a 21st Century Teaching and Learning Environment

Creating a 21st Century Teaching and Learning Environment
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1425807577 | 152 pages

Build the foundation for a 21st century learning environment! This professional resource provides strategies, suggestions, lesson ideas, and helpful planning tools to create a 21st century environment in the classroom and at school. Teachers and students will feel empowered to use technology in teaching and learning.

Books · Computer Science · Educational Philosophy · Emerging Trends · Smart Education · Teaching

Developing Educational Technology

Title: Developing Educational Technology at an Urban Community College

Developing Educational Technology at an Urban Community College
English | ISBN: 3030170373 | 2019 | 209 pages

This book uses a mix of personal narratives, anecdotal evidence, and research-based findings to tell the story of a small, urban community college’s efforts to develop and nurture a Community of Practice (CoP) that would galvanize the campus’ adoption of Educational Technology. Located in one of the poorest congressional district in the United States, Hostos Community College, a Hispanic-serving institution and part of the City University of New York (CUNY), has a unique history rooted in activism, advocacy, and community outreach, and has built a reputation for technology innovation. This book is a collection of writing from faculty and staff members whose decades of experience integrating technology into the classroom pre-dates many of the official initiatives now in place at CUNY.

Computer Science · Educational Philosophy · Smart Education · Teaching

Teachers Discovering Computers

Title: Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology in a Changing World

(Shelly Cashman Series), 8th Edition

 Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology in a Changing World (Shelly Cashman Series), 8th Edition
2014 | ISBN: 1285845439 | English | 515 pages

TEACHERS DISCOVERING COMPUTERS: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN A CHANGING WORLD, EIGHTH EDITION introduces future educators to technology and digital media in order to help them successfully teach the current generation of digital students.

Books · Gamification · Smart Education · Teaching

Gamification Mindset

Title: Gamification Mindset

Author: Ole Goethe

Gamification Mindset
English | ISBN: 303011077X | 2019 | 138 pages

This book explores how gamification techniques are used to leverage users’ natural desires for achievement, competition, collaboration, learning and more. Compared to other books on this topic, it gives more than just an introduction and develops the readers understanding through frameworks and models, based on research to make it easier to develop gamified systems.
The concept of gamification achieved increased popularity in 2010 when a number of softwares and services started explaining their products as a ‘gamification’ design. Gamification Mindset explains how game elements and mechanics are important, how video games are learning systems and examines how video game aesthetics are vital in the development of gamification. The book will challenge some common beliefs when it comes to gamifications’ abilities to immerse and change the user’s intrinsic and extrinsic motivations.
Gamification Mindset aims to develop new models in gamification to enable easier gamification scenarios. It is a comprehensive analysis and discussion about gamification and serves as a useful tool, since it acquaints readers with gamification and how to use it, through illustrated practical theoretical models. Academic researchers, students, educators and professional game and gamification designers will find this book invaluable.

Books · Computer Science · Emerging Trends · Smart Education · Teaching

Emerging Technologies for Education

Title: Emerging Technologies for Education: Third International Symposium

SETE 2018, Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2018, Chian

Emerging Technologies for Education: Third International Symposium, SETE 2018, Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2018, Chian
English | ISBN: 3030035794 | 2018 | 255 pages

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Symposium, SETE 2018, held in conjunction with ICWL 2018, Chiang Mai, Thailand, in August 2018.
The 23 full and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Emerging Technologies of Design, Model and Framework of Learning Systems; Emerging Technologies Support for Intelligent Tutoring; Emerging Technologies Support for Game-Based and Joyful Learning; Emerging Technologies of Pedagogical Issues; UMLL (International Symposium on User Modeling and Language Learning); ETLTL (International Workshop on Educational Technology for Language and Translation Learning)

Educational Philosophy · Emerging Trends · Smart Education · STEM · Teaching

Emergent Practices and Material Conditions

Title: Emergent Practices and Material Conditions in Learning and Teaching with Technologies

Emergent Practices and Material Conditions in Learning and Teaching with Technologies
English | ISBN: 3030107639 | 2019 | 278 pages

This book explores the complexities of interacting with digital technologies in the everyday flow of practices in schools, museums, and the home. In particular, the authors pay attention to the material conditions of such practices via the exploration of media discourses on information and communication technologies in the classroom; the ongoing digitization of the school; the use of video chat for language learning; the instantiation of CrossActionSpaces in an urban science classrooms; the development of symbolic technologies such as the Carbon Footprint Calculator; the design of apps and virtual museums for learning science; the use of text message tools for collaborative learning in teacher education and the design, implementation, and evaluation of Augmented Reality apps in outdoor learning. The book is grounded in case studies presented by scholars at the workshop, “Changing Teaching and Learning Practices in Schools with Tablet-Mediated Collaborative Learning: Nordic, European and International Views” and the workshop “Emergent Practices and Material Conditions in Tablet-mediated Collaborative Learning and Teaching” both of which have been held at the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning conference (CSCL). This volume brings together inspirational and high-quality chapters that raise a range of important ideas and showcase the importance of looking beyond technology-enhanced learning. Taken together, this volume unpacks a variety of everyday situations by engaging with what is really happening with digital technologies rather than what is expected to happen with them in educational settings. The take-away message is a call for research on learning, teaching, and digital technologies that enables engagement with the materiality of educational practices and, in particular, their constitutive relationships that configure the contemporary educational practices of the digital age.

Books · Emerging Trends · Smart Education · Springer · Uncategorized

Foundations and Trends in Smart Learning

Title: Foundations and Trends in Smart Learning: Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on Smart Learning Environments

Foundations and Trends in Smart Learning: Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on Smart Learning Environments
English | ISBN: 9811369070 | 2019 | 194 pages

This book focuses on the interplay between pedagogy and technology, and their fusion for the advancement of smart learning environments. It discusses various components of this interplay, including learning and assessment paradigms, social factors and policies, emerging technologies, innovative application of mature technologies, transformation of curriculum and teaching behavior, transformation of administration, best infusion practices, and piloting of new ideas.

The book provides an archival forum for researchers, academics, practitioners and industry professionals interested and/or engaged in reforming teaching and learning methods by promoting smart learning environments. It also facilitates discussions and constructive dialogue among various stakeholders on the limitations of existing learning environments, the need for reform, innovative uses of emerging pedagogical approaches and technologies, and sharing and promoting best practices, leading to the evolution, design and implementation of smart learning environments.

Books · Educational Philosophy · Emerging Trends · Smart Education · Teaching

Brain-Based Teaching in the Digital Age

Brain-Based Teaching in the Digital Age

Brain-Based Teaching in the Digital Age
English | 177 pages | ASCD (15 Mar. 2010) | 1416609180

Smartphones, videogames, webcasts, wikis, blogs, texting, emoticons. What does the rapidly changing digital landscape mean for classroom teaching? How has technology affected the brain development of students? How does it relate to what we know about learning styles, memory, and multiple intelligences? How can teachers close the digital divide that separates many of them from their students?

In Brain-Based Teaching in the Digital Age, Marilee Sprenger answers these and other questions with research-based information and practical advice gained from her years as a classroom teacher and a consultant on brain-based teaching. As she puts it, “It’s time to meet the ‘digital brain.’ We need to use the technology tools, learn the digital dialogue, and understand and relate better to our students.” At the same time, she emphasizes the importance of educating the whole child by including exercise, music, and art in the classroom and helping students develop their social-emotional intelligence. Creativity, empathy, and the ability to synthesize material are 21st century skills that can’t be ignored in the digital age.

Readers will find easy-to-understand information about the digital brain and how it works, “high-tech” and “low-tech” strategies for everyday teaching and learning, and inspiration for creating classroom environments that will entice and encourage students at all grade levels. With this book as a guide, educators can move confidently across the digital divide to a world of new possibilities–for themselves and their students.