Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology

✍ Scribed by Michelle D. Miller

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For the Internet generation, educational technology designed with the brain in mind offers a natural pathway to the pleasures and rewards of deep learning. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Michelle Miller shows how attention, memory, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning can be enhanced through technology-aided approaches.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Is Online Learning Here to Stay?
Chapter 2: Online Learning: Does It Work?
Chapter 3: The Psychology of Computing
Chapter 4: Attention
Chapter 5: Memory
Chapter 6: Thinking
Chapter 7: Incorporating Multimedia Effectively
Chapter 8: Motivating Students
Chapter 9: Putting It All Together
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index