Book Review: Meaningful Learning with Technology

Meaningful Learning with Technology (Fourth Edition ISBN 10: 1-292-04139-0: ISBN 13: 978-1¬292-04139-1) was published in 2014 by Pearson Education Limited in the United States of America. The book has a total of 288 pages. In Meaningful Learning with Technology, the authors, Jane Howland, David Jonassen and Rose Marra, have continued to deepen their philosophical perspective of constructivism into the theory and practice of education. With full of practical examples, in Meaningful Learning with Technology, the authors demonstrate how to employ technology to engage in meaningful learning. By means of the deployment of the idea and the techniques in the book, learning processes such as inquiring, experimenting, writing, designing, visualizing, communicating, community building, modeling and assessing are supported and enhanced. It is exemplary that the book, through the coverage of various examples from teaching community and K-12 classrooms, provide educational professionals with a rich toolkit to use technology in the process of teaching and learning with a wide variety of learner characteristics.