Integrating Information & Communications Technologies Into the Classroom

Lawrence A. Tomei (Robert Morris University, USA)

Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781599042589

EISBN13: 9781599042602

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-258-9

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Integrating Information & Communications Technologies Into the Classroom examines topics critical to business, computer science, and information technology education, such as: school improvement and reform, standards-based technology education programs, data-driven decision making, and strategic technology education planning. This book also includes subjects, such as: the effects of human factors on Web-based instruction; the impact of gender, politics, culture, and economics on instructional technology; the effects of technology on socialization and group processes; and, the barriers, challenges, and successes of technology integration into the classroom.

Integrating Information & Communications Technologies Into the Classroom considers the effects of technology in society, equity issues, technology education and copyright laws, censorship, acceptable use and fair use laws, community education, and public outreach, using technology.

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"Twenty contributions from educators and researchers explore ways of integrating informaton and communications technologies (ICT) into classroom instruction. Chapters in the first section deal specifically with business, computer science, and information technology education. Later chapters address such topics as distance learning technology education and telecommunications services management as a university discipline."

– Book News Inc., August 2007

This book offers some good papers between the covers.

– British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol.39, No.6 (2008)

Lawrence A. Tomei is a recently retired Professor of Education at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh PA. Born in Akron, Ohio, he earned a BSBA from the University of Akron (1972) and a Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Education at the University of Oklahoma (1975, 1978). He completed his EdD from USC (1983). Dr. Tomei entered the US Air Force in Fall 1972 and served on active duty until his retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1994. He entered higher education as the Director of Administrative Technology at Duquesne University (1994-1998) and joined its School of Education full-time faculty as Instructional Technology Program Director, providing undergraduate, masters, and doctor programs (1998-2004). Some of his books on instructional technology include: (2001), (2002), (2005), (2015), (2016), and (2019).

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