Book: Living and Learning in a SMART Board World
This book is about teaching and learning in elementary schools and follows the introduction, development and use of SMART Boards; but it is more than a technology-focused text. It describes how the use of SMART Boards is, for a number of teachers, changing both the way they think about and prepare for teaching and the ways that students engage in and enact their learning in classroom settings. The book also explores the emergence of a professional learning community called the “Livingstone Inquiry Group”. The various chapters reveal how this community – consisting of teachers from within and associated with Livingstone school, the school principal, and university and teacher union researchers – engaged in reflection in and on practice to build and extend individual and collective understandings of new and evolving approaches to pedagogy through the use of technology… [Book Sample: Chapter One of Living and Learning in a SMART Board World (PDF 79.4 KB)]
Price: $25.00 + $11.00 shipping = $36.00 Total
Orders can be purchased by emailing orders to dbrook@vsb.bc.ca
Published in May, 2011
Published by the Centre for the Study of Teacher Education
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z4
Written by the Livingstone Inquiry Group:
- Rebecca Robins, Livingstone Elementary
- Laurie Cassie, Livingstone Elementary
- Monica Lee, Livingstone Elementary
- Sharon Moy, Livingstone Elementary
- Heidi Cyr, Livingstone Elementary
- Suzanne McCarthy, Livingstone Elementary
- Anthony Wong, Trafalgar Elementary
- Sylvia Zubke, Livingstone Elementary
- Gina Wong, Nightingale Elementary
- David Brook, Livingstone Elementary
- Charlie Naylor, British Columbia Teachers’ Federation
- Brenda Lim-Fong, Richmond School District
- Gaalen Erickson, Faculty of Education at UBC
- Anthony Clarke, Faculty of Education at UBC
