Find the natural overlap between the work you already believe in and the digital tools that define modern learning. Each chapter introduces an enduring skill: information fluency, verbal persuasion, visual persuasion, collaborative dialogue, and problem solving. Teachers will examine how to embrace digital tools to evaluate controversial issues and create classrooms full of informed, productive global citizens.
Benefits:
- Find a wealth of handouts and classroom activities focused on each skill and digital tool discussed.
- Explore practical, digital methods to connect the enduring skills taught for generations with the technology that students are using every day.
- Understand concrete ways that students can make a difference around the world and communicate collaboratively using media tools.
- Learn step-by-step directions for each digital tool and how it can be used for modern learning.
- Investigate numerous online resources, and understand the pros and cons of each.
Contents:
About the Authors
Introduction: The iGeneration
Chapter 1: Managing Information in the 21st Century
Chapter 2: Exploring Verbal Persuasion
Chapter 3: Exploring Visual Persuasion
Chapter 4: Exploring Collaborative Dialogue
Chapter 5: Exploring Collaborative Problem Solving
Epilogue
Appendix: Teaching Permission Slip
References and Resources
Index
William M. Ferriter is a sixth-grade science teacher in a professional learning community (PLC) near Raleigh, North Carolina. A National Board Certified Teacher, Bill has designed professional development courses for educators nationwide on topics ranging from establishing professional learning communities to integrating the Common Core State Standards into Science and Social Studies classrooms. His educational technology trainings center on using digital tools to give students the opportunity to drive meaningful change in the world around them. Bill has also developed school-wide technology rubrics and surveys that identify student and staff digital proficiency at the building level. He is a founding member and senior fellow of the Collaboratory--a digital home for progressive conversations around the changing nature of teaching and learning--and has served as teacher in residence at the Center for Teaching Quality.
Bill has had articles published in Phi Delta Kappan Magazine, Journal for Staff Development, Educational Leadership, and Threshold Magazine. A contributing author to two assessment anthologies, The Teacher as Assessment Leader and The Principal as Assessment Leader, he is also coauthor of Communicating and Connecting with Social Media, Building a Professional Learning Community at WorkTM and Making Teamwork Meaningful. Bill also maintains a popular blog--The Tempered Radical (blog.williamferriter.com) where he writes regularly about teaching in today's world.
Bill earned a bachelor of science and master of science in elementary education from the State University of New York at Geneseo.
Adam Garry is a former elementary school teacher and is now Dell's manager of global education strategy. He has presented at conferences around the world, including ISTE, and has delivered keynotes across the United States and in Costa Rica, Jamaica and Trinidad. He has published many articles on technology integration for several education magazines and has a strong following on Twitter. Over the past twelve years he has consulted in school districts across the United States on school transformation, personalized learning, professional development, 21st century skills, technology integration, curriculum and instruction, and leadership. He was also one of the facilitators for the Partnership for 21st Century Skills professional development affiliates program and ISTE's School 2.0 workshops. In July 2010 his book titled, Teaching the iGeneration: 5 Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Tools was published.
Adam received a BA in Elementary Education from the University of South Florida, a Master's in Teaching and Learning with a Technology emphasis from Framingham State College, and a Certificate in Administration and Supervision from Johns Hopkins University.
