Cooperative Learning: Critical Thinking and Collaboration Across the Curriculum

Education & Teaching

Hamm, Mary

Adams, Dennis M.

Schools & Teaching

Charles C. Thomas Pub Ltd

Redefining Education in the Twenty-First Century: Shaping Collaborative Learning in the Age of Information

Both the National Academy of Science and the NCTM Standards recognize that successful scientific inquiry and mathematical problem solving require that students be critical and creative thinkers. Adams and Hamm believe that the best way to achieve these results is by integrating math, science, and technology in a cooperative learning environment. Their new book shows elementary teachers how.
Collaborative Inquiry in Science, Math, and Technology offers a pedagogically sound vision of elementary classrooms in which students are encouraged to work together to construct meaning without the constraints of rigid subject matter. That vision is supported throughout by numerous inquiry-based, thematic activities specifically designed to promote reflective thinking.
To make learning meaningful to children requires connecting the curriculum to questions they have about the natural world. Children learn best when they build knowledge from their own experiences. To that end, the authors have carefully chosen activities that focus on everyday phenomena and that highlight the many connections among science, math, technology, and the real world. The authors also provide guidance for fostering genuine collaboration in which students pool their thinking, giving and receiving help in a learning environment where it is safe to make mistakes. 
Preservice and inservice teachers as well as teacher educators will find that Collaborative Inquiry in Science, Math, and Technology not only enhances their understanding of how children learn best, but also provides them with practical support for designing lessons that capitalize on that understanding.

Collaborative Inquiry in Science, Math, and Technology

Science & Math

Adams, Dennis

Technology

Heinemann

Offers a practical survey of the most important trAnds in education--including critical thinking, cooperative learning, and portfolio assessment--and shows how they can be translated into classroom practice.

New Designs for Teaching and Learning: Promoting Active Learning in Tomorrow's Schools (Jossey-Bass Education)

Jossey-Bass

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Literacy Today (Source Books on Education)

Routledge

Book by Adams, Dennis M., Carlson, Helen, Hamm, Mary

Cooperative Learning & Educational Media: Collaborating With Technology and Each Other

Carlson, Helen

Educational Technology Pubns

Literacy in Science, Technology, and the Language Arts: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Technology, a product of science, is pushing against the linear boundaries of traditional storytelling. Moving in the direction of multiform stories and digital formats takes literacy well beyond the 3Rs. Students increasingly need to be critical and creative users of the new media. As the Internet becomes faster, more visually powerful, and easier to manipulate there will be an explosion of virtual environments, with literacy taking on a whole new meaning. While the word literacy has become almost synonymous with the word competence, the authors prefer the definitions found in the new language arts and science standards. For example, the National Science Education Standards suggests that scientific literacy implies that a person can identify scientific issues underlying national and local decisions and express positions that are scientifically and technologically informed.
As this book explores important new dimensions of linguistic and scientific literacy it looks at developing literacies not covered well in schools today. It is the authors' belief that an understanding of science and the processes of science can make major contributions to the ability to learn, reason, make decisions, and solve problems. Thus learning about the natural world helps develop intellectual tools of inquiry that can be used with the language arts and other disciplines. Interdisciplinary activities can help develop the skills in both science and language that are becoming so essential for personal fulfillment, performing in the workplace, and being an informed citizen.
This book is designed as a supplementary text for methods classes in elementary science and language arts education. It is also intended as a resource and guide for preservice and inservice elementary and middle school teachers.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Praeger

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

Literacy Today: New Standards Across the Curriculum (Source Books on Education)

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