The Technology Facade: Overcoming Barriers to Effective Instructional Technology in Schools

by Lawrence A. Tomei

Based on a specific 20-question checklist and "how-to" recommendations, this text is designed to help educators choose and implement appropriate technology for their schools. This easy-to-follow... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205326765
• ISBN13: 9780205326761
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Grading Educational Technology- A Wasted Opportunity?

Aimed at a broad cross-section using technology for educational purposes, "Façade" powerfully offers a fact-filled holistic viewpoint plus more importantly checklists, tools and steps to assess current success/failure and action items to improve. Bottom line, it's suggested that as with office workers, despite billions spent, the raw usefulness of most IT falls way short of realistic expectations. {aside, Yourdon, Constantine, Booch, Jacobsen and other software gurus over the years have backed up this viewpoint}.Thorough, attractive and provocative chapters span:- Definitions- Surveying as is- Instructional technologies for the classroom- Competencies and skills of students and teachers- Taxonomy of technology- People in the façade- Funding the façade- Resources - including plans and equipment- Planning the curriculum- Integration of technology- Successful learning- Reflections & lessons learntBy avoiding specifics of technology, and focusing on applications and management processes, this book is unlikely to date rapidly. It's a recommended "workbook" to getting the most out of educational IT.