McLeod / Lehmann What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-11672-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Facebook, Twitter, Google...today's tech-savvy students are alwaysplugged in. However, all too often their teachers andadministrators aren't experienced in the use of these familiardigital tools. If schools are to prepare students for the future,administrators and educators must harness the power of digitaltechnologies and social media.
With contributions from authorities on the topic of educationaltechnology, What School Leaders Need to Know About DigitalTechnologies and Social Media is a compendium of the mostuseful tools for any education setting. Throughout the book,experts including Will Richardson, Vicki Davis, SherylNussbaum-Beach, Richard Byrne, Joyce Valenza, and many othersexplain how administrators and teachers can best integratetechnology into schools, helping to make sense of theoften-confusing world of social media and digital tools. They offerthe most current information for the educational use of blogs,wikis and podcasts, online learning, open-source courseware,educational gaming, social networking, online mind mapping, mobilephones, and more, and include examples of these methods currentlyat work in schools. As the book clearly illustrates, when thesetools are combined with thoughtful and deliberate pedagogicalpractice, it can create a transformative experience for students,educators, and administrators alike.
What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologiesand Social Media reveals the power of information technologyand social networks in the classroom and throughout the educationcommunity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McLeod, Scott

Lehmann, Chris

Weitere Mitwirkende

Warlick, David F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword vii
David Warlick
Introduction 1
1 Blogs 3
Kristin Hokanson and Christian Long
2 Wikis 13
Stephanie Sandifer and Vicki A. Davis
3 Podcasts and Webinars 25
Steve Dembo and Wesley Fryer
4 RSS and RSS Readers 37
Will Richardson and Karl Fisch
5 Digital Video 45
Mathew Needleman
6 Virtual Schooling 53
Michael Barbour and Richard E. Ferdig
Interlude: Social Media Is Changing the Way We Live andLearn 67
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
7 One- to- One Computing 75
Chris Lehmann and Pamela Livingston
8 Free and Open Source Software 83
Tom Hoffman
9 Educational Gaming 93
John W. Rice
10 Social Bookmarking 101
Dean Shareski and Mary Beth Hertz
11 Online Mind Mapping 107
Carl Anderson and Richard Byrne
12 Course Management Systems 117
Scott S. Floyd and Miguel Guhlin
Interlude: See Sally Research: Evolving Notions ofInformation Literacy 123
Joyce Kasman Valenza and Doug Johnson
13 Online Tool Suites 137
Diana Laufenberg and Mark Wagner
14 Twitter 147
Alec Couros and Kevin Jarrett
15 Online Images and Visual Literacy 153
Kimberly Cofino and David Jakes
16 Mobile Phones and Mobile Learning 159
Liz Kolb and Sharon Tonner
17 Social Networking 173
Ewan McIntosh and Jeff Utecht
Afterword 183
Christopher D. Sessums
About the Editors 189
About the Contributors 191
Index 203

Über Autor(innen)

Scott McLeod is an associate professor of educationalleadership at the University of Kentucky in Lexington,Kentucky. McLeod created the first graduate program builtspecifically to prepare tech-savvy school leaders at the Universityof Minnesota. A recognized expert on K-12 school technologyleadership issues, McLeod works with corporate and non-profitinstitutions to move schools into the 21st century. McLeod alsoserves as the founding director of the UCEA Center for the AdvancedStudy of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE) and writes thepopular education blog, Dangerously Irrelevant(dangerouslyirrelevant.org).
Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the ScienceLeadership Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thisgroundbreaking school, which integrates technology throughoutclassrooms and administration, has been recognized as an AppleDistinguished School and was named one of the "Ten Most AmazingSchools" in Ladies Home Journal. Lehmann was named one of the "30Most Influential People in EdTech" by Tech & Learning magazinein June 2010 and has received several other distinctions and awardsthroughout his career. He is a regular speaker and the author ofthe Practical Theory blog (www.practicaltheory.org).
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