The digital revolution has hit education, with more and more classrooms plugged into the whole wired world. But are schools making the most of new technologies? Are they tapping into the learning potential of today’s Firefox/Facebook/cell phone generation? Have schools fallen through the crack of the digital divide? In Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology, Allan Collins and Richard Halverson argue that the knowledge revolution has transformed our jobs, our homes, our lives, and therefore must also transform our schools. Much like after the school-reform movement of the industrial revolution, our society is again poised at the edge of radical change. To keep pace with a globalized technological culture, we must rethink how we educate the next generation or America will be “left behind.” This groundbreaking book offers a vision for the future of American education that goes well beyond the walls of the classroom to include online social networks, distance learning with “anytime, anywhere” access, digital home schooling models, video-game learning environments, and more.

Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America (Technology, Education--Connections (The TEC Series))

Science & Math

Collins, Allan

Halverson, Richard

Technology

Teachers' College Press

The digital revolution in education is well under way, with more and more learners plugged into the online world. How can schools make the most of both the technology and the learning potential of today’s “born digital” students? In this new edition of their groundbreaking book, Collins and Halverson argue that new technologies have transformed our workplaces, our lives, and our culture and it is time we take the next step to transform learning―in and out of schools. The authors show how, over time, public schooling was so successful that it became synonymous with education. But new technologies risk making schools obsolete and this book explains why and how today’s educators, policymakers, and communities must adapt to provide all learners with access to the new learning tools of the 21st century.
The insightful, Second Edition:
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<li>Explains how our school systems need to embrace new technologies to address the opportunity gaps we face in our society. </li>
<li>Advances a new view of the classroom that moves beyond the hopes of technology enthusiasts and the doubts of technology skeptics.</li>
<li>Traces the explosion of new media learning tools that provide “anytime, anywhere, any topic” access to learning, such as Khan Academy, YouTube, Pinterest, video games, Wikipedia, and citizen science.</li>
<li>Makes practical suggestions for how schools can support the new technologies to enhance learning for students at all levels, to rethink assessment, and to guide educators and school leaders to reframe education.</li>
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Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Drawing on twenty years of research in school effectiveness, this book presents a distributed model of task-based school leadership that leads to continuous school improvement. The book outlines the tasks school leadership teams must focus on to improve teaching and learning, grouped into the following five domains: 
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<li>Focus on Learning</li> <li>Monitoring Teaching and Learning</li> <li>Building Nested Learning Communities</li> <li>Acquiring and Allocating Resources</li> <li>Maintaining a Safe and Effective Learning Environment</li> </ul> Recognizing that the principal is a single actor in a complex web of activity influencing student learning, the focus is not only on the principal’s role but on a range of leadership and instructional practices to be shared across the leadership team (including APs, counselors, teachers, and support personnel). These tasks, organized into 21 subdomains, have been demonstrated through extensive research to contribute to improved student learning.

Mapping Leadership: The Tasks that Matter for Improving Teaching and Learning in Schools

Kelley, Carolyn

Jossey-Bass

Man to Man

Reference

Barbour Publishing, Incorporated

The Living Body (Critical Issues)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Multnomah Books

Wisdom on Life

New Age & Spirituality

Wisdom on Faith

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