This resource examines how the digital landscape is transforming teaching and learning, why informed leadership is so critical, and how instruction can support traditional literacy skills alongside 21st-century fluencies.

Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape (The 21st Century Fluency Series)

Education & Teaching

Ian Jukes

Ted McCain

Lee Crockett

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

With foreword by Jason Ohler
Despite technological advancements, most secondary schools still function on ideas that are more than 100 years old. Learning Without Classrooms outlines new guidelines for how schools must operate to remain relevant and effective as we move further into the 21st century. Making a persuasive argument for moving beyond the long-established idea of operating schools with traditional classroom instruction to a personalized learning environment for individual students, the authors detail six crucial elements of school management (community, instruction, time, technology, school facilities, and funding) and how to address them concurrently to improve secondary school learning environments.
Transform secondary schools systemwide, from restructuring the physical learning environment to supporting personalized learning:
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<li>Learn the six elements of schooling, and understand how changing any one element influences the others.</li>
<li>Explore nine critical skills students need for success in the modern world.</li>
<li>Review the structure and methodology behind an advisory-based concept for school management.</li>
<li>Consider scenarios of what learning will look like in the near future as powerful new technological tools become available.</li>
<li>Study seven visionary designs for how to renovate existing secondary school facilities to support technologically infused, personalized learning environments.</li>
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Contents: Introduction
Part 1: Understanding 21st Century Learning Chapter 1: The Classroom Has Run Its Course Chapter 2: Key Principles for Modern Schooling Chapter 3: Nine Essential Skills for the Modern World Chapter 4: How Technology Will Change Education
Part 2: Designing 21st Century Schools Chapter 5: Schooling for the Future Chapter 6: How to Make It Happen Chapter 7: Concepts for New Advisory-Based Schools
Part 3: Reimagining Seven Schools for the 21st Century Chapter 8: Additional Considerations for Transitioning to an Advisory Format Chapter 9: The Capital School Chapter 10: The Green School Chapter 11: The Connected School Chapter 12: The Open School Chapter 13: The District School Chapter 14: The Tech School Chapter 15: The Academy School
 Epilogue

Learning Without Classrooms: Visionary Designs for Secondary Schools (Unstoppable Learning)

Frank Kelly

Solution Tree

The educational pattern of lecture, listen, and forget is deeply ingrained in schools. In this user-friendly resource, author Ted McCain offers a compelling alternative that flips lessons on their heads: the problems-first instructional method. Using this method, you will fully engage students by first introducing a problem and then empowering learners to solve it using creativity, innovation, collaboration, and other essential skills. Use this resource to help students achieve higher levels of thinking: <ul> <li>Identify the need for instructional change in the current educational system.</li> <li>Consider the transferable skills students need for solving problems in the workplace and in life outside the classroom.</li> <li>Study the benefits of a problems-first teaching style.</li> <li>Learn to implement problems-first methods into existing classrooms.</li> <li>Understand how this method teaches seven essential 21st century skills highly desired in the modern workforce.</li> <li>Discover how to introduce role-play into the classroom and broaden lessons to encompass whole-mind learning and boost student engagement.</li> </ul> Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Author Introduction Part One: Understanding New Needs and a New Approach for a Digital Generation Chapter 1: The New Needs of a Changing Generation Chapter 2: The Thinking and Processing Skills Students Need for the Future Chapter 3: The Key to a New Approach Part Two: Learning How to Create Problems-First Projects Chapter 4: Envision a New Role for the Teacher Chapter 5: Ensure That Problems Are First, Teaching Is Second Chapter 6: Establish a Real-World Link Using Role-Play Chapter 7: Expand Your View of the Curriculum Chapter 8: Equip Students With the 4 Ds of Problem Solving Chapter 9: Elevate the Students' Level of Thought Chapter 10: Educate the Whole Mind Chapter 11: Evaluate Holistically Chapter 12: Ease Yourself Out of the Picture Part Three: Making the Shift to Problems-First Teaching Chapter 13: Pointers for Shifting to a Problems-First Approach Chapter 14: Examples of Problems-First Lesson Plans References and Resources Index

Problems-First Learning: A Framework for Engaging Minds and Nurturing Thinkers in Grades 6-12 (A Teacher's Guide to Boosting Student Engagement w/ the Instructional Method of Problems-First Learning)

Solution Tree Press

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