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Moursund, David G. 2006-07-28T14:50:41Z 2006-07-28T14:50:41Z 2006-04-24 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3114 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. 1150273 bytes application/pdf en_US D. Moursund Artificial intelligence Brief Introduction to Educational Implications of Artificial Intelligence Book

Moursund, David G. 2006-08-11T23:45:52Z 2006-08-11T23:45:52Z 2005-01 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3169 161 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 is a reprint of a 1985 book. The 1985 book contains some of the history of the organization that eventually became the International Society for Technology in Education, and of the publication that eventually became Learning and Leading with Technology. It also contains a complete collection of the first editorials (and editorial-like messages) that I wrote for the Oregon Computing Teacher and The Computing Teacher. In 1995, the name of The Computing Teacher was changed to Learning and Learning with Technology. I served as editor-in-chief from the beginning of the Oregon Computing Teacher through the publication of the March 2001 issue of Learning and Leading with Technology. 20059284 bytes application/pdf en_US D. Moursund Collected Editorials Book

Moursund, David G. 2006-08-15T22:50:09Z 2006-08-15T22:50:09Z 2004-11 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3184 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. 311387 bytes application/pdf en_US D. Moursund Computers and Problem Solving: A Workshop for Educators Book

Moursund, David G. 2006-08-11T23:46:04Z 2006-08-11T23:46:04Z 2005 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3170 197 p. Reprint of April 1989 book. 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. Reprint of April 1989 book. Part 1 contains general background information that underlies the tool use of computers in schools. In essence, it is a short computers in education course specifically designed for computer integrated instruction inservice facilitators. If you have a solid background in the field of computers in education, you will be able to skip much of this pan of the book. Part 2 focuses on what is known about effective inservice, and in particular about inservice for computer-integrated instruction. Most readers will find that this is the heart of the relevant material in the book. Part 3 contains instrumentation for needs assessment, formative evaluation, and summative evaluation of an inservice. It focuses on the importance of needs assessment, formative evaluation, and summative evaluation in an inservice. 1009656 bytes application/pdf en_US D. Moursund Effective Inservice for Integrating Computer-as-Tool into the Curriculum Book

Moursund, David G. 2006-08-14T23:17:46Z 2006-08-14T23:17:46Z 2004 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3179 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. 1551099 bytes application/pdf en_US D. Moursund Computer literacy Getting Smarter At Solving Problems: Teacher’s Manual Book

Moursund, David G. 2006-08-14T23:16:10Z 2006-08-14T23:16:10Z 2005-01-01 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3175 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. 593600 bytes application/pdf en_US D. Moursund Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) Improving Math Education in Elementary Schools: A Short Book for Teachers Other

Moursund, David G. 2006-08-14T23:17:00Z 2006-08-14T23:17:00Z 2006-06-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3177 157 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. The word game means different things to different people. In this book, I explore a variety of board games, card games, dice games, word games, and puzzles that many children and adults play. Many of these games come in both non-electronic and electronic formats. This book places special emphasis on electronic games and the electronic versions of games that were originally developed in non-electronic formats. 3803379 bytes application/pdf en_US D. Moursund Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) Games in mathematics education Educational games Introduction to Using Games in Education: A Guide for Teachers and Parents Book

Moursund, David G. 2006-08-14T23:57:58Z 2006-08-14T23:57:58Z 1983 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3183 28 p. Copyright © David Moursund 1983. 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. It is generally agreed that all students should become computer literate, but no definition of computer literacy has gained widespread acceptance. This booklet defines computer literacy in a manner that can guide educators as they work to implement universal computer literacy through precollege education. This booklet is an updated and expanded version of a paper, "Personal Computing for Elementary and Secondary School Students," prepared by David Moursund for a computer literacy conference held in December 1980 in Reston, Virginia. The conference was organized by the Human Resources Research Organization and the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium. The purpose of the conference was to help participants gain an increased understanding of the meaning of computer literacy and what can be done to help students become computer literate. This booklet is intended for curriculum specialists, elementary and secondary school teachers, media specialists, teachers of teachers and others concerned with curriculum in precollege education. It defines and discusses computer literacy for elementary and secondary school students. The approach is via an analysis of personal computing and the aspects of computers that can have a direct impact on students. Students can be personally involved with computers through computer assisted learning, computer assisted problem solving, the study of computer and information science and through the use of computers for entertainment. Students can learn how computers are affecting the world of business, government and industry-and thus, how computers will be part of their future. Each of these aspects of personal computing contributes to the definition of a set of goals for computer literacy in elementary and secondary schools. The resulting overall goal is for a working knowledge of computers-that is, knowledge that facilitates the everyday use of computers by students. This knowledge lays a firm foundation for future learning about computers and for coping with the inevitable changes that will occur in this technology. 265245 bytes application/pdf en_US D. Moursund PRECOLLEGE COMPUTER LITERACY: A PERSONAL COMPUTING APPROACH Book

Moursund, David G. 2006-08-11T23:44:42Z 2006-08-11T23:44:42Z 2006-07-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3168 11 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. There is a huge amount of literature available on the Web about the topic of games in education. However, most of it is testimonial, rather than solid research. As I was writing my book, I spent a lot of time reading and browsing the available literature, paying special attention to the research. I talked to a large number of teachers and other people who are interested in the field. In addition, I drew upon my many years of experience in the field of education. However, I did not conduct any empirical research in the field of games in education. Thus, this book is based on an analysis and synthesis of research and practitioner knowledge. This paper was originally presented July 6, 2006 at NECC 2006 in San Diego. 244082 bytes application/pdf en_US D. Moursund Some Personal Thoughts About Research on Using Games in Education Presentation

Moursund, David G. 2006-08-15T23:58:05Z 2006-08-15T23:58:05Z 1992 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/3192 207 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 is for people who are currently TCs, or who are thinking about obtaining one of these positions. It is also for school administrators who are exploring the possibility of creating TC positions and hiring TCs. The book analyzes TC responsibilities and suggests needed qualifications. It also examines the nature of many current TC positions; several interviews with TCs are included. In addition, this book explores a number of ideas about school restructuring. The emphasis is on restructuring for the Information Age. 2608235 bytes application/pdf en_US International Society for Technology in Education The Technology Coordinator Book