Learning Supercharged: Digital Age Strategies and Insights from the EdTech Frontier

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Explore how to apply innovative, technology-driven strategies in the classroom to create personalized and dynamic learning experiences for your students.

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.

Topics covered include:

• Digital equity considerations
• Digital citizenship
• Personalized learning Project-based learning
• Blending formal and informal learning
• Coding and robotics
• Makerspaces
• Gamification and badging
• Open Educational Resources (OERs)

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.

Audience: K-12 educators, teacher educators

Lynne Schrum, Ph.D., is a professor in the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education at Nova Southeastern University in Broward County, Florida. Previously, she served as dean of the College of Education and Human Services at West Virginia University. Her research and teaching focus on appropriate uses of information technology, preparing school leaders and teachers for the 21st century, and effective and successful online teaching and learning. She has written and edited 16 books and numerous articles, and she’s a past editor of the Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE) (2002-2012; 2016-2018). Schrum is also a past president of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). 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.