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Using Educational Technology with At-Risk Students : A Guide for Library Media Specialists and Teachers (Greenwood Professional Guides in School Librarianship)
Using Educational Technology with AtRisk Students A Guide for Library Media Specialists and Teachers - Greenwood Professional Guides in School Librarianship Author:Roxanne Baxter Mendrinos Based on extensive research, this practical guide offers library media specialists and teachers solutions and practical applications of educational technology within subject disciplines to help improve the achievement of at-risk students. Working in partnership, library media specialists and teachers at all levels of the educational system will ... more »find lesson plans, successful case studies, and project ideas for replication in language arts, science, and social studies. Mendrinos, an expert in educational technology, provides the results of her research into trends in integrating technology and information literacy into the curriculum and the effects of these cutting-edge efforts on the achievement of at-risk students. She then offers practical applications of successful teaching units for use with at-risk students. Exceptional educational technology programs show how to weave multimedia software, CD-ROM technology, videodiscs, and Internet resources into the curriculum to enhance learning and increase student productivity. Five high school and middle school library media specialists provide detailed educational technology programs for replication that have been successful with at-risk students.« less