Help Students Show Learning Through Media Creation Education hinges on effective communication. This book demonstrates how media has become a core component of modern communication and highlights the need to incorporate student-centered media projects throughout the curriculum. Self-expression with media will enhance the learning process and allow students to creatively demonstrate their knowledge. The strategies and tactics these pages offer equip educators to make their students enthusiastic experts at producing dynamic media projects. Content includes: The how, why, and when of prompting students to create their own media across subjects and grade levels. Keys to mastery of media formats from simple photography to eBooks to complex animations. Detailed descriptions of student projects that utilize different media. The benefits of media sharing, and how to do it responsibly. The innovative use of Augmented Reality, so readers can activate a video on the book's printed pages with their mobile devices. Across all disciplines, mastery of media creation is central to the success of current and next generation students. Educators who implement this book's ideas will be amazed by the resultant increase in student engagement and depth of learning. "What a thoughtful collection of student-created products. This book highlights a variety of multimedia projects, offers a multitude of best practices and practical implementation tips, and is sure to empower teachers to help students find their voice." Lisa Johnson, Eanes ISD Ed Tech @TechChef4u
Technology has transformed our lives. Virtually every school and classroom is connected. Why then, has it not transformed education? Consider these five ways educators can begin to optimize classroom technology and rethink its use. See technology as a complement rather than a replacement Embrace its creation potential over consumption function Encourage design and personalized learning over standards and outcomes Celebrate the journey toward digital competence over curriculum improvement Focus on tech-pedagogy over product usage Learn how to let technology cultivate student autonomy, creativity, and responsibility while focusing on lessons that hone higher-order and critical thinking skills.
Backed by over 20 years of research, the Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) framework helps school-based teams improve the quality of instruction, assessment, and curriculum for higher and more equitable student learning. This work provides a powerful professional learning component and sample lessons plans, assessment tasks, and student work.
Using Web 2.0 Tools to Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards is a practical text aimed at demonstrating how teachers can integrate technology into their curriculum in order to meet the English Language Arts Standards and literacy standards for History and Science. Grounded in solid pedagogical theory, the book offers concrete strategies and lesson ideas. The ideas presented can be scaffolded to meet the needs of a wide range of student abilities in grades 6-12.
This ground-breaking guide helps you identify and address diverse student needs within the flipped classroom environment. Includes practical, standards-aligned tools to design and manage at-home and at-school learning experiences while checking for individual student understanding. Make your flipped classroom a true place of learning with this guide!
Your user's guide to the mathematics standards In the 12 short months since the ELA versions of The Common Core Companions, Grades K-2 and 3-5, burst on the scene, they've already assisted tens of thousands of teachers with the day-to-day "what you do." Teachers' one big criticism: what about mathematics? Luckily NCTM past-president Linda Gojak and mathematics coach Ruth Harbin Miles stepped up to the task. The result? That version of the mathematics standards you wish you had. Page by page, The Common Core Mathematics Companions clearly lay out: The mathematics embedded in each standard for a deeper understanding of the content Examples of what effective teaching and learning look like in the classroom Connected standards within each domain so teachers can better appreciate how they relate Priorities within clusters so teachers know where to focus their time The three components of rigor: conceptual understanding, procedural skills, and applications Vocabulary and suggested materials for each grade-level band with explicit connections to the standards Common student misconceptions around key mathematical ideas with ways to address them Don't spend another minute poring over the mathematics standards. Gojak and Miles have already done the heavy-lifting for you. Focus instead on how to teach them, using The Common Core Mathematics Companion as your one-stop guide for teaching, planning, assessing, collaborating, and designing powerful mathematics curriculum.
Our students are online constantly, and yet research shows that only half of teachers say digital tools make writing instruction easier. Research Writing Rewired seeks to turn that statistic upside down. Or, rather, upside right: If we want to ready students for a globalized world, 100% of teachers ought to consider technology an asset to any kind of writing, assert authors Dawn Reed and Troy Hicks. But the "main wiring" still has to be the ELA standards and the essential questions at the heart of each content area. To that end, the authors show you how to use digital tools within a multi-week inquiry unit to increase students' engagement as they write-to-learn and share knowledge. Their book a clear model for tech-rich research writing that will inform your own inquiry-driven units.
A complete rewrite of best-selling and award-winning text The Reflective Educator's Guide to Professional Development: Coaching Inquiry-Oriented Learning Communities, this revamped text will show teachers the ways being a productive and active member of a PLC can help them reclaim their own profession and create a successful PLC to improve student learning.
Making the most of the digital age in education just got easier. With cloud computing, students can connect with teachers, educators can connect with colleagues, and opportunities for meaningful collaboration can grow exponentially. In this easy-to-use primer, the author of bestseller Going Google teams up with Twitter's The Nerdy Teacher to demonstrate what cloud-based instruction can mean for teachers and students-and how it can work for your school. The book includes Practical tools for integrating cloud computing into the curriculum Student and teacher testimonies detailing examples of cloud-based instruction in action Chapters on storing, communicating, sharing, and creating Strategies for ensuring safety and security for students and information
