Adolescents in the Internet Age: A Team Learning and Teaching Perspective

The book is for prospective secondary teachers, university education and human development faculty and students, and in-service secondary school teachers, focusing on the current environment of adolescents, physical growth, sexuality, nutrition, exercise, substance abuse, social development, neuroscience insights, cheating, cyber abuse, parental concerns, career exploration issues, visual intelligence, creative thinking, and Internet learning. It suggests using Collaboration Integration Theory to unite peers and the Internet to help adolescents acquire teamwork skills.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2021
Publisher: Information Age Publishing

This book is designed for prospective secondary teachers, university education and human development faculty and students, and in-service secondary school teachers. It focuses on the current environment of adolescents, including physical growth, sexuality, nutrition, exercise, and substance abuse. Social development depends on advice given by peers and adults, and neuroscience insights are reported on information processing, attention, and distraction. Detection of cheating, cyber abuse, and parental concerns are considered, as well as career exploration issues. Visual intelligence, creative thinking, and Internet learning are presented with ways to help students gauge risks, manage stress, and acquire resilience. Peers become the most prominent influence on social development during adolescence, and they recognize the Internet as their greatest resource for locating information. Teachers want to know how to unite these powerful sources of learning, peers and the Internet, to help adolescents acquire teamwork skills employers will expect of them. This goal is achieved by implementing Collaboration Integration Theory. Ten Cooperative Learning Exercises and Roles (CLEAR) at the end of chapters allow each student to choose one role per chapter. Insights gained from these roles are shared with teammates before work is submitted to the teacher. This approach enables students to select assignments, expands group learning, and makes everyone accountable for instruction. The adult teacher role becomes more creative as they design exercises and roles that differentiate team learning. Using Zoom or other platforms, a teacher can observe or record cooperative team sharing. Involvement with CLEAR can enable prospective teachers to apply this system to empower students.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781648023811
Edition number: 3 Revised edition