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Technology in Its Place: Successful Technology Infusion in Schools (Jossey-Bass Education Series)

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The editors have brought together a series of articles and studies on the deployment and integration of technology in our schools. The book approaches its subject from several perspectives: curriculum development, professional development, and policy and administration. It provides a good, high level survey of these issues, and its thorough and careful documentation provides anyone wishing to dive more deeply in any given area excellent direction for further investigation. It was a quick, interesting, and entertaining read.

This book should not be the first choice for those looking for specific and tactical hints on technology integration into curriculum. But it provides an excellent overview of the wide range of issues technology raises for education, and as such would be valuable for administrators and policy makers seeking to broaden their perspective in this area.

This book consists of ten different chapters which were written by different authors and edited and compiled for publication. The book offers general but solid information about planning for and implementing technology in a K-12 environment. I found the book to be very well organized and easy to read. The basic "soft information" presented in the book is still applicable and useful. However, the date (age) of the book means that most of the resources and references to specific technology are no longer current and appear to be out-of-date. This book is useful in providing historical or background information to technology in schools but a more current resource should be employed to provide a realistic look at the current state of technology integration in schools today.