Learning Supercharged
Digital Age Strategies and Insights from the EdTech Frontier
Published on 1. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
225 pages
978-1-56484-686-0 (ISBN)
Description
As educators seek out new ways to energize and engage their students and prepare them for the future, they need to know how to employ the latest technologies in creative and innovative ways.
Learning Supercharged looks at emerging approaches and tools, and incorporates professional educators' stories of how and why they have implemented each trend, including information on challenges faced and overcome, how to get started and other resources to explore. The book inspires educators to try new approaches with the understanding that they will devise new ways to synthesize, interpret and implement ideas to fit their context, learners and resources.
Topics covered include: digital equity considerations, digital citizenship, personalized learning, project-based learning, blending formal and informal learning, coding and robotics, makerspaces, gamification, badging and open educational resources (OERs).
Learning Supercharged looks at emerging approaches and tools, and incorporates professional educators' stories of how and why they have implemented each trend, including information on challenges faced and overcome, how to get started and other resources to explore. The book inspires educators to try new approaches with the understanding that they will devise new ways to synthesize, interpret and implement ideas to fit their context, learners and resources.
Topics covered include: digital equity considerations, digital citizenship, personalized learning, project-based learning, blending formal and informal learning, coding and robotics, makerspaces, gamification, badging and open educational resources (OERs).
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56484-686-0 (9781564846860)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Lynne Schrum is professor and coordinator of elementary and secondary education in the College of Education and George Mason University. Prior to that, she served as Chair of the Department of teaching and learning at the University of Utah. She is a past president of ISTE and editor of the Journal of Research on Technology in Education.
Sandi Sumerfield, Ed.D., has been a classroom teacher, literacy coach, administrator, adjunct faculty and education consultant. Her research and teaching focus on visual literacy skills to empower students as writers and thinkers. She's passionate about supporting educators in creating a classroom community that embraces social justice and develops a culturally responsive pedagogy that lifts student voice through writing.
Sandi Sumerfield, Ed.D., has been a classroom teacher, literacy coach, administrator, adjunct faculty and education consultant. Her research and teaching focus on visual literacy skills to empower students as writers and thinkers. She's passionate about supporting educators in creating a classroom community that embraces social justice and develops a culturally responsive pedagogy that lifts student voice through writing.