Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series) - Softcover

Sanchez Terrell, Shelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998570540 ISBN 13: 9780998570549

Publisher: Times 10 Publications, 2017

Synopsis

"Innovative, Brilliant, and Meaningful" - George Couros, bestselling author and leadership consultant

In Hacking Digital Learning Strategies, international EdTech presenter and NAPW Woman of the Year Shelly Sanchez Terrell demonstrates the power of EdTech Missions--lessons and projects that inspire learners to use web tools and social media to innovate, research, collaborate, problem-solve, campaign, crowd fund, crowdsource, and publish.

Mission-minded learning empowers teachers and learners 
One of the first truly connected educators, Shelly Sanchez Terrell, gracefully aligns tech tools and social media with strategies and concepts.

Not only does Terrell demonstrate EdTech missions that solve everyday education problems, she provides clear, detailed steps, examples, and templates for overcoming obstacles that may arise in any tech-driven classroom.

BONUS: 38-page Mission Toolkit Helps You Blast Off Immediately
The 10 Missions in Hacking DLS are more than enough to transform how teachers integrate technology, but there's also much more here. Included in the book is a 38-page Mission Toolkit, complete with 27 reproducible kits: mission cards, badges, polls, and other handouts that you can copy and distribute to students immediately. 

Your Mission Plan
Read Hacking DLS. Choose any of these EdTech Missions, grab a resource from the Mission Toolkit, share the mission and the resources with students, and watch learning soar to new heights:

1. Design a Game Walkthrough--Create a tutorial and teach others how to play

2. Go on a Selfie Adventure--Define yourself through images

3. Create a Fictional Social Media Profile--Manage your digital footprint more purposefully

4. Remix Learning Into a Digital Textbook--Produce and publish an engaging online book

5. Debate Issues, Don’t Diss People--Argue differences of opinion respectfully

6. Seek and Preserve the Truth--Share digital news responsibly and learn to identify fake news

7. Assemble a Global Class Meetup-Join the world community and discuss a pressing issue

8. Enlighten the World as a Citizen Scientist--Conduct real-world field research

9. Appreciate Others with a Digital Badge--Recognize values, not just grades

10. Crowdfund Innovation to Find Solutions--Engage social media to fundraise for a cause

Your Global Leader in EdTech Integration
Shelly Sanchez Terrell is a Microsoft Education Hero and Bammy Award winner and has presented best practices in EdTech in over 20 countries. If you want to innovate with technology like never before, Terrell's EdTech Missions are your go-to resource. 

Launch EdTech Missions Today
Scroll up and grab Hacking Digital Learning Strategies and the EdTech Missions Toolkit now.

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Review

"In Hacking Digital Learning Strategies, Shelly Sanchez Terrell masterfully explores how to use modern technologies and ideas to create the ultimate learning opportunities. The book is packed with wonderful ideas that are actionable and easy to put into place right away. Whether you're a master teacher looking to add some new and exciting ideas to your class or a new teacher who is looking for ways to engage and support learners, this is the perfect guide and is sure to spark change in your classroom." - Adam Bellow, Co-founder of Breakout EDU
"I have been following Shelly's work for many years, and am very excited about her newest venture, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies. This book is full of student-centered strategies that are sure to make learning stick! These tips use many tools students have already embraced, so why not use them for instruction?" - Sarah Thomas, Founder of EduMatch, Middle School Director
"Shelly never ceases to amaze me with her creative ideas and tools that WORK! This is another "must read" that should be in every educator's toolbelt." - Todd Nesloney, Award Winning Principal, Author, & International Speaker

"When I started teaching and using digital media, I looked to Shelly Sanchez Terrell for guidance, and I recommend that other educators do the same: If you are a classroom teacher and need guidance rooted in pedagogy by someone who really knows how to use digital media and networks, and who addresses the most import learning and digital citizenship issues facing students today, start with Hacking Digital Learning Strategies." - Howard Rheingold, Author, Professor, and founder of Rheingold U.
"Shelly Terrell's importance should not be underestimated - she is an inspirational force within the global education community. Her new book is therefore bound to be a great success. It focuses on an immensely important question - how to harness the power and potential of technology to enhance, enrich and transform education. Shelly has created a useful recipe book for educational technology, with accessible ideas and easy to implement strategies for doing this, in 10 different ways." - Steve Wheeler, Learning Innovations Consultant and former Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at the Plymouth Institute of Education

"If you are a teacher who is interested in using the new digital tools at our disposal, but you don't know how or where to start, this is the book for you. Shelly Sanchez Terrell has written a book filled with fun, practical, do-able digital projects that will provide your students with meaningful projects and transform your classroom. " - Chris Lehmann, CEO, Science Leadership Academy Schools
"Students desperately desire learning that is relevant, meaningful, and incorporates technology. Educators are always on the search for practical strategies on how to accomplish this. Shelley Terrell masterfully addresses the needs of both groups in this easy to read resource packed with ready to implement ideas. Take your kids on a powerful learning mission today!" - Eric Sheninger, Award-winning Principal and Best-selling Author
"The secret to Shelly's success as an education collaborator on a global scale is that she shares information most revered by all educators, information that is original, relevant, vetted, and proven, combining technology with proven education methodology in the classroom. This book provides relevance to a 21st century educator." - Thomas Whitby, Author, Podcaster, Blogger, Consultant, Co-founder of #Edchat 

"Design and Debate; Enlighten and Appreciate! Hacking Digital Learning Strategies gets you prepped, hyped, and off and running on a diverse array of online learning adventures.Many educators talk about using the Internet to inspire and empower learners worldwide. But no one makes it happen like Shelly Sanchez Terrell." - Jason R. Levine (Fluency MC), Teacher, Trainer, Knowledge Entertainer 
"Hacking Digital Learning provides teachers with 10 imaginative and authentic ways to engage their students in tech projects centered upon their interests. Shelly Terrell provides excellent materials for students to accomplish each digital learning mission. This book will empower students to take charge of their own learning in meaningful ways." - Jerry Blumengarten, Twitterbrarian, Author

"Shelly, an amazing leader in education, provides brilliant examples of innovative and meaningful learning experiences for students and educators that will really open up avenues of thinking for schools.  Her ideas are practical yet will push possibilities. Awesome resource for the innovative educator." - George Couros, Innovation and leadership consultant and author of "The Innovator's Mindset"

Edition details

• Publisher: Times 10 Publications
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998570540
• ISBN 13: 9780998570549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198