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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822473103321

Autore

Lloyd Les

Titolo

Educational technology for the global village : worldwide innovation and best practices / / edited by Les Lloyd and Gabriel I. Barreneche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Medford, New Jersey : , : Information Today, Inc., , [2014]

�2014

ISBN

1-57387-720-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map

Collana

Gale eBooks.

Disciplina

371.33

Soggetti

Educational technology

Education and globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Learning Global Citizenship Through Teaching Technology""; ""Chapter 2: Service-Learning Linked to Social Media and Virtual Worlds: An Educational Strategy for Promoting Global Sustainability""; ""Chapter 3: A Transglobal Virtual Language Learning Community for ESL and EFL Teachers: Using Skype and PBworks""; ""Chapter 4: Using Asynchronous Web 2.0 Tools to Promote Language Learning and Intercultural Communication""; ""Chapter 5: The iPad as a Tool for Global Education: Opportunities and Limitations""

""Chapter 6: From Traditional to Massive Online Education: The Global Health Village""""Chapter 7: Teacher ePortfolios: Links to Interpersonal and Intrapersonal 21st-Century Communication Skills""; ""Chapter 8: Furthering Educational Technology in Developing Countries""; ""Chapter 9: Design Education for Social Innovation Supported by Technology:The Safe Agua Case Study""; ""Chapter 10: Emerging Technology in the Schools of Rwanda""; ""Chapter 11: Galapagos ICE""; ""Chapter 12: A Service-Learning Novice Finds His Way""; ""Final Thoughts""; ""About the Contributors""; ""About the Editors""

""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents projects that are innovating with technology to improve education around the world. It describes how students and



institutions can reuse obsolete technology in places where it will be new, and the impacts of such efforts on communities abroad.