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Informationen zum Autor Martha Stone Wiske is lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she co-directed the Educational Technology Center. Her research is concerned with the integration of new technologies and the incorporation of learner-centered teaching for understanding. She is coeditor of Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice . Kristi Rennebohm Franz is an award-winning Washington State teacher who is known for her innovative use of new technologies in the classroom. Her classroom teaching has been filmed and featured in the PBS documentary Digital Divide . Lisa Breit develops professional development programs to help K-12 teachers design and implement curriculum with new technologies, and consults with school leaders on how to cultivate leadership and provide institutional support as teachers and students gain proficiency. Klappentext "Teaching for Understanding with Technology shows how teachers can maximize the potential of new technologies to advance student learning and achievement. It uses the popular Teaching for Understanding framework that guides learners to think, analyze, solve problems, and make meaning of what they've learned. The book offers advice on tapping into a rich array of new technologies such as web information, online curricular information, and professional networks to research teaching topics, set learning goals, create innovative lesson plans, assess student understanding, and develop communities of learners. Zusammenfassung Shows how teachers can maximize the potential of new technologies to advance student learning and achievement. This book uses the popular 'Teaching for Understanding' framework that guides learners to think! analyze! solve problems! and make meaning of what they've learned. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xiii Acknowledgements xv Contributing authors xvii 1 Reproductive competition and its impact on the evolution and ecology of dung beetles 1 Leigh W. Simmons and T. James Ridsdill-Smith 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Competition for mates and the evolution of morphological diversity 2 1.3 Competition for resources and the evolution of breeding strategies 9 1.4 Ecological consequences of intraspecific and interspecific competition 14 1.4.1 Niche expansion 15 1.4.2 Regional distribution and seasonal activity 17 1.4.3 Community dynamics 18 1.5 Conservation 19 1.6 Concluding remarks 20 2 The evolutionary history and diversification of dung beetles 21 T. Keith Philips 2.1 Introduction 21 2.2 Scarabaeinae diversity and tribal classification issues 22 2.2.1 Dichotomiini and Coprini 24 2.2.2 Canthonini 25 2.2.3 Eucraniini 25 2.2.4 Phanaeini 25 2.2.5 Phanaeini + Eucraniini 26 2.2.6 Scarabaeini 26 2.2.7 Gymnopleurini 26 2.2.8 Eurysternini 26 2.2.9 Sisyphini 26 2.2.10 Onitini 27 2.2.11 Oniticellini 27 2.2.12 Onthophagini 27 2.3 Scarabaeine dung beetle phylogenies 27 2.4 The sister clade to the Scarabaeinae 31 2.5 The origin of the dung beetles 33 2.6 The oldest lineages and their geographical origin 34 2.7 Evolution of activity period 36 2.8 Evolution of feeding habits 36 2.9 Evolution of derived alternative lifestyles 37 2.10 Evolution of nidification: dung manipulation strategies 40 2.11 Evolution of nidification: nesting behaviour and subsocial care 42 2.12 Conclusions 44 2.13 Future work/gaps in knowledge 45 3 Male contest competition and the evolution of weapons 47 Robert Knell 3.1 Introduction 47 3.2 Dung beetle horns as weapons 49 3.3 Functional morphology of horns 50 3.4 Horns as predictors of vic...
