Empowering Students With Technology

Formerly a SkyLight Publication.

From an international leader in facilitating the integration of technology into learning and critical thinking, Empowering Students With Technology will energize the classroom with exciting ideas that will spark students′ interest and rekindle the thrill of teaching.

This timely handbook helps students and teachers connect content to real life through new resources and learning relationships that are available through technology. Learning adventures powered by technology, provide practical lesson ideas, and real-life stories demonstrate not only what is possible but also what technology is already accomplishing in classrooms. Fifty Web sites to support great teaching and learning are also included.

Alan November began his education career as a science and math teacher and a residential dorm counselor on an island reform school in Boston Harbor. November went on as a teacher and administrator in the Boston Public Schools, Lexington and Wellesley (Massachusetts) Public Schools, and the Glenbrook High Schools in Illinois. He has also taught in the graduate schools of education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Seton Hall in New Jersey. He was the cofounder of the Institute for Education Leadership and Technology at Stanford University. He has presented in all 50 states, every province of Canada, across Europe, Asia, Central America, and South Africa. He is most proud of being named one of the first Christa McAuliffe Educators in the United States. November is the author of the best-selling book Empowering Students With Technology. Each July, November leads the international Building Learning Communities summer conference near Boston.