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Regular price $29.99 Save $-29.99Our classrooms are full of individuals who learn in diverse ways, and educators need creative teaching approaches to enrich learning for struggling students. When applied effectively, immersive technology in teaching can target students’ interests, provide flexibility for a range of skill levels and empower students’ choice in their learning. The Immersive Classroom highlights the possibilities of immersive technology to make a greater impact and reach all student populations.
- Provides step-by step instructions for how to mix individual tools to create an ecosystem of immersive technology.
- Offers examples from leading educators who have implemented the tools and techniques discussed, giving readers easy-to-implement takeaways they can incorporate in their classrooms right away.
- Includes interactive content, with more than 30 images that can be scanned in order to experience AR/VR tools for yourself!
- Contains a robust index of more than 100 AR/VR tools along with device specifics and requirements.
With this book, readers gain insights into customizing tools through app hacking and app smashing, and discover how pushing the use of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) tools beyond their intended purpose can maximize their benefits, helping meet the needs of all students.
Technology Coordinator's Handbook, Fourth Edition
Regular price $38.99 Save $-38.99Technology coordinators and facilitators must be able to navigate the complexities of a school community’s technology needs and serve a variety of individuals, including students, teachers and administrators. With its detailed, practical approach, The Technology Coordinator’s Handbook has established the standard in clarifying the wide variety of tasks and responsibilities faced by those in this critical role. Readers will learn how to be more effective learners and leaders so they can better assist students and teachers in managing technology use and dealing with technology challenges. The book also offers strategies for education leaders to successfully integrate technology into school and district operations.
This expanded edition includes two brand-new chapters covering online and blended learning, and the future of the technology coordinator role. Additionally, the authors follow up with educators featured in the previous addition, who offer insights and discuss how the position has evolved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors have also assembled a broad range of teachers, administrators and technology coordinators from around the country to offer guidance for those in this role.
This new edition also includes:
- Helpful hints and toolbox tips from featured educators around the United States.
- Updates to each chapter’s essential questions and associated answers to help readers fully understand an issue and find the best solution to a problem.
- A professional development focus topic for each chapter, sourced from the edtech professionals featured in the book.
- Digital components including templates, checklists, editable forms, technology leader job descriptions and more.
Audience: Technology coordinators and coaches; teacher educators; and elementary and secondary school leaders
Developing Digital Detectives
Regular price $34.99 Save $-34.99The current news landscape is driven by clicks, with every social media influencer, trained and citizen journalists chasing the same goal: a viral story. In this environment, where the race to be first on the scene with the most sensational story often overshadows the need for accuracy, traditional strategies for determining information credibility are no longer enough. Rather than simply helping students become savvy information consumers, today’s educators must provide learners with the skills to be digital detectives – information interrogators who are armed with a variety of tools for dissecting news stories and determining what’s real and what isn’t in our “post-truth world.”
- Shares meaningful lessons that move beyond traditional “fake news” protocols to help learners navigate a world in which information can be both a force for good and a tool used to influence and manipulate.
- Includes resources and examples to support educators in the work of facilitating engaging, relevant (and fun!) instructional opportunities for K-12 learners, in both face-to-face and digital learning environments.
- Unpacks the connection between social-emotional learning and information literacy.
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As the authors state: “Remember, the detective’s job is NOT to prove themselves correct. Their job is to detect the truth!” This statement reflects the way they approach the lessons in this book, providing clear and practical guidance to help educators address and overcome this ever-expanding issue.
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As citizens, we have a responsibility to give back to the community and work toward social justice and equity. Digital citizenship curricula should strive to show students possibilities over problems, opportunities over risks and community successes over personal gain. Digital Citizenship in Action shows educators how to do just that.
In this new, expanded edition, Mattson incorporates the latest research from scholars in media and information literacy, educational technology and digital citizenship. She also extends the coverage to provide guidance for elementary and secondary teachers, and includes updated examples that are relevant to today’s most widely used technologies.
- Includes tips for creating a digital space where students can try something new, grow through mistakes, and learn what it means to be a citizen in different spaces.
- Features “Spotlight Stories” from teachers engaged with participatory digital citizenship that demonstrate how these ideas play out in actual classrooms.
- Includes a featured activity for elementary students and secondary students in each chapter to help teachers integrate the ideas into their work.
- Provides QR codes linking to additional resources in “You Can Do It!” sections throughout the book.
In this book, you’ll find more ways than ever to take digital citizenship beyond a conversation about personal responsibility so you can create opportunities for students to become participatory citizens in online spaces.
Audience: Elementary and secondary educators, curriculum directors and library media specialists
The New Assistive Tech, Second Edition
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Building on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, this edition also explores ways to support students, especially learners with disabilities, through distance learning, and how adopting personalized learning principles can help facilitate a smooth transition to distance learning.
This revised edition:
- Includes new content on the necessity and long-term benefits of making educational materials accessible.
- Offers guidance on expanding practices that are already inclusive, such as increasing the flexibility of learning spaces and establishing gaming and maker clubs.
- Explains how to conduct and document assessments to help an educational team make informed decisions about technology needs.
- Assists individuals or teams in creating an action plan for developing a culture of inclusion.
- Interweaves stories, songs and other features to make learning fun!
With his accessible approach and conversational style, Christopher R. Bugaj takes what can sometimes be an intimidating topic and makes it relevant and easy to understand, with examples that illustrate how to reach all learners in every classroom.
Audience: Elementary and secondary educators; education coaches and administrators
Tech for Teacher Wellness
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This book takes a different approach, showing that technology used wisely can promote wellness, rather than undermine it. Author and technology facilitator Meredith Masar Boullion presents research on the importance of caring for the emotional health of educators, then offers strategies for using technology to reduce educator stress and better provide for the social and emotional needs of school communities.
- Gives readers permission, and the tools needed, to set boundaries and get back personal time.
- Demonstrates positive ways to use resources such as social media, professional learning networks (PLNs) and other collaborative tools to find, support and learn from fellow educators.
- Provides suggestions for educators to share their own learnings to enhance the well-being and positivity of students, parents and colleagues.
- Includes access to an online platform through which readers can connect and support one another’s efforts to achieve greater well-being.
With recommendations that are concrete and easy to implement, the book fosters collaboration and connection among readers, and encourages them to share their own techniques and resources for building a healthy, sustainable life and career.
Audience: Elementary and secondary teachers; education coaches and leaders