Educational technology experts explain how to best integrate technology into K-12 schools, from blogs, wikis and podcasts to online learning, open-source courseware, and educational gaming to social networking, online mind-mapping, and using mobile phones.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction, Chris Lehmann & Scott McLeod
- Foreword, David Warlick
Learning Tools
- Blogs, Kristin Hokanson & Christian Long
- Wikis, Stephanie Sandifer & Vicki Davis
- Podcasts and webinars, Steve Dembo & Wes Fryer
- RSS and RSS readers, Will Richardson & Karl Fisch
- Digital video, Mathew Needleman
- Virtual schooling, Michael Barbour & Rick Ferdig
- One-to-one computing, Chris Lehmann & Pamela Livingston
- Open source software, Tom Hoffman
- Educational gaming, John Rice
Interlude
- Social media is changing the way we live and learn, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
- See Sally research: Evolving notions of information literacy, Joyce Valenza & Doug Johnson
More Learning Tools
- Social bookmarking, Dean Shareski & Mary Beth Hertz
- Online mind mapping, Carl Anderson & Richard Byrne
- Course management systems, Scott Floyd & Miguel Guhlin
- Online office tool suites, Diana Laufenberg & Mark Wagner
- Twitter, Alec Couros & Kevin Jarrett
- Online images and visual literacy, Kim Cofino & David Jakes
- Mobile phones, Liz Kolb & Sharon Tonner
- Social networking, Ewan McIntosh & Jeff Utecht
- Afterword, Christopher Sessums
Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. Dr. McLeod also is the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation's only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video series,
Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, the National School Boards Association, and the Center for Digital Education. In Spring 2011 he was a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at Dangerously Irrelevant (dangerouslyirrelevant.org) and can be reached on Twitter at @mcleod.
Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA. This groundbreaking school, which integrates technology throughout classrooms and administration, was named one of the Ten Most Amazing Schools in the US by Ladies Home Journal and has been featured in such publications as EdWeek and Edutopia Magazine. Lehmann was named one of the "30 Most Influential People in EdTech" in June 2010, and has received several other distinctions and awards throughout his career. He is a regular speaker and blogs at practicaltheory.org.
