Information and communication technologies: : considerations of current practice for teachers and teacher educators

The question of whether technology has lived up to its potential in educational settings has been debated for decades. This volume seeks to bring new perspectives to bear on that question. It aims to highlight critical issues that teachers, teacher educators, researchers and policy makers must grapple with in their efforts to realize the educational potential of information and communication technologies. It is devoted to classroom teachers and teacher educators who are uniquely situated to close the gap between the reality and the promise of information and communication technology in education. Chapters include such topics as learning from current research related to ICT in education, the multiple and complex digital divides that impact students and teachers, and promising technology related professional development practices.

1. Information and Communication Technologies in Schools: Stimulating a Dialogue, Louanne Smolin & Kimberly Lawless .

2. Reinventing the Role of Information and Communications Technologies in Education, Chris Dede .

3. The Internet Landscape in College, Steve Jones, Camille Johnson Yale, Francisco Seoane Pérez, and Jessica Schuler .

4. Teacher Education and Technology: Initial Results from the "What Works and Why" Project, James W. Pellegrino, Susan R. Goldman, Meryl Bertenthal, & Kimberly Lawless .

5. Teacher Professional Development and ICT: Strategies and Models, Charalambos Vrasidas & Gene V. Glass .

6. Technology Tools for Collecting, Managing, and Using Assessment Data to Inform Instruction and Improve Achievement, Geneva D. Haertel, Barbara Means, & William Penuel .

7. Educational Technology Policy: Educators Influencing the Process, Hilary Goldmann .

8. A Teachers Place in the Digital Divide, Mark Warschauer .

9. Re considering the Digital Divide: Using Online Content to Understand.

Teaching & Learning, Sharon Tettegah, Eun Won Whang, Nakia Collins, &.

Kona Taylor.

10. Technology Out of School: What Schools can Learn from Community based Technology, Olga A. Vásquez .

11. E Lessons Learned, Nicholas Burbules, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Graduates and faculty in education