Getting Smarter At Solving Problems: Teacher’s Manual

224 p. Copyright © David Moursund 1990, 2004. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Permission is granted to make use of this document for non-commercial educational purposes by schools, school districts, colleges, universities, and other non-profit preservice and inservice teacher education organizations and groups. Additional free materials written by David Moursund are available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/Free.html.Getting Smarter at Solving Problems is specifically designed to be used as a supplementary text in a junior high school or secondary school computer literacy course. This Teacher's Manual is specifically designed to help teachers of such computer literacy courses make appropriate use of the instructional materials. Although this manual is designed for computer literacy teachers, it likely that many other teachers will make use of the text and the Teacher's Manual. Getting Smarter at Problem Solving can be used in a wide variety of learning settings. For example, the text might be used in a course on problem solving or as supplementary material in a social studies course. Also, the text has been used extensively in graduate courses for teachers. This Teacher's Manual is aimed at two distinct audiences. One audience is inservice teachers who face the day to day challenge of helping a wide range of students to become more computer literate. The other audience is educators, both inservice and preservice, who want to know more about how we can help students to become better prepared for life in an Information Age Society which is placing more and more demands on people's ability to solve problems

Planning, Forecasting, and Inventing Your Computers-in-Education Future

128 p. Copyright (c) 2005 by David Moursund. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Permission is granted to make use of this document for non-commercial educational purposes by schools, school districts, colleges, universities, and other non-profit preservice and inservice teacher education organizations and groups. Additional free materials written by David Moursund are available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/Free.html.The focus in this book is on two aspects of improving our educational system: 1. Improving the quality of education that K-12 students are receiving. 2. Improving the professional lives of teachers and other educators. This book is mainly designed for preservice and inservice teachers and other educators. If you fall into this category, you will find that this book focuses on your possible futures of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. It will do this by: Helping you make and implement some ICT-related decisions that will likely prove very important to you during your professional career in education. Helping you to increase your productivity and effectiveness as you work to improve the quality of education being received by your students. A second audience for this book is individuals and stakeholder groups that represent schools, school districts, and other educational organizations. This book is designed to help such audiences carry out long-range strategic planning for ICT in their organizations. The goal is to help improve the productivity and effectiveness of our education system as it works to improve the quality of education of the students it serves

Introduction to Information and Communication Technology in Education

121 p. Copyright (c) 2005 David Moursund. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Permission is granted to make use of this document for non-commercial educational purposes by schools, school districts, colleges, universities, and other non-profit preservice and inservice teacher education organizations and groups. Additional free materials written by David Moursund are available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/Free.html.Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a major challenge to our educational system. This book is designed for use by PreK-12 preservice and inservice teachers, and by teachers of these teachers. It provides a brief overview of some of the key topics in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. I wrote this book to help serve the needs of my students in a course titled Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

Brief Introduction to Educational Implications of Artificial Intelligence

75 p. Copyright © 2005, 2006 David Moursund. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Permission is granted to make use of this document for non-commercial educational purposes by schools, school districts, colleges, universities, and other non-profit preservice and inservice teacher education organizations and groups. Additional free materials written by David Moursund are available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/Free.html.This book is designed to help preservice and inservice teachers learn about some of the educational implications of current uses of Artificial Intelligence as an aid to solving problems and accomplishing tasks. Humans and their predecessors have developed a wide range of tools to help solve the types of problems that they face. Such tools embody some of the knowledge and skills of those who discover, invent, design, and build the tools. Because of this, in some sense a tool user gains in knowledge and skill by learning to make use of tools. This document uses the term “tool” in a very broad sense. It includes the stone ax, the flint knife, reading and writing, arithmetic and other math, the hoe and plough, the telescope, microscope, and other scientific instruments, the steam engine and steam locomotive, the bicycle, the internal combustion engine and automobile, and so on. It also includes the computer hardware, software, and connectivity that we lump together under the title Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of the field of computer and information science. It focuses on developing hardware and software systems that solve problems and accomplish tasks that—if accomplished by humans—would be considered a display of intelligence. The field of AI includes studying and developing machines such as robots, automatic pilots for airplanes and space ships, and “smart” military weapons. Europeans tend to use the term machine intelligence (MI) instead of the term AI. The theory and practice of AI is leading to the development of a wide range of artificially intelligent tools. These tools, sometimes working under the guidance of a human and sometimes without external guidance, are able to solve or help solve a steadily increasing range of problems. Over the past 50 years, AI has produced a number of results that are important to students, teachers, our overall educational system, and to our society. This short book provides an overview of AI from K-12 education and teacher education points of view. It is designed specifically for preservice and inservice teachers and school administrators. However, educational aides, parents, school site council members, school board members, and others who are interested in education will find this booklet to be useful. This book is designed for self-study, for use in workshops, for use in a short course, and for use as a unit of study in a longer course on ICT in education. It contains a number of ideas for immediate application of the content, and it contains a number of activities for use in workshops and courses. An appendix contains suggestions for Project-Based Learning activities suitable for educators and students

Б1 В ОД 19 Налоговое планирование и прогнозирование

89 p. Copyright © 2005 David Moursund Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Permission is granted to make use of this document for non-commercial educational purposes by schools, school districts, colleges, universities, and other non-profit preservice and inservice teacher education organizations and groups. Additional free materials written by David Moursund are available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/Free.html.This short book addresses the problem that our elementary school math education system is not as successful as many people would like it to be, and it is not as successful as it could be. It is designed as supplementary material for use in a Math Methods course for preservice elementary school teachers. However, it can also be used by inservice elementary school teachers and for students enrolled in Math for Elementary Teachers courses. One of the big and unifying ideas in this book is procedures and procedural thinking. From the point of view of the elementary school math teachers, a major goal is to help students learn some math procedures and learn how to think in terms of using these procedures to solve problems. The same idea lies at the core of the field of computer and information science

Computers and Problem Solving: A Workshop for Educators

58 p. Copyright © 1986, 1988, 2004 Dave Moursund. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Permission is granted to make use of this document for non-commercial educational purposes by schools, school districts, colleges, universities, and other non-profit preservice and inservice teacher education organizations and groups. Additional free materials written by David Moursund are available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/Free.html.Note to readers: This booklet is written in the first person, and it is somewhat like a transcript of a workshop session. This is a workshop on roles of computers in problem solving and possible effects these roles will have on education

Computers in Education for Talented and Gifted Students: A Book for Elementary and Middle School Teachers

118 p. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Permission is granted to make use of this document for non-commercial educational purposes by schools, school districts, colleges, universities, and other non-profit preservice and inservice teacher education organizations and groups. Additional free materials written by David Moursund are available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/Free.html.This book explores various roles of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in talented and gifted (TAG) education. The three goals of this book are: To help improve the educational opportunities and education of TAG students. To increase the general knowledge of teachers about the field of computers in education. To explore some possible changes designed to improve our educational system. Many of the ideas in this book are applicable to all students, not just TAG students