Create Future-Ready Classrooms, Now! (Technology-Rich Strategies for Formative Assessment: Teaching and Learning with Digital Tools)

Unite pedagogy and technology to inspire systemic school change. The author offers powerful, yet practical methods to incorporate technology into daily instruction and prepare students for lifelong learning in a global society. Explore digital tools that help seamlessly incorporate the technology-rich world into the classroom, understand how to use media for deeper learning, and examine a gamification approach to engagement and recognition.

Benefits:

• Use technology to link educational theory and effective classroom instruction.
• Involve students in their learning using engaging websites, apps, software, and other media.
• Empower students to solve real-world problems using digital tools.
• Create a common language about lesson design, delivery, and assessment.
• Acquire tech-savvy strategies for providing effective feedback and assessment.
• Reflect on chapter-ending questions individually or in small groups.
• Create a toolbox of pedagogical methods that work with any new technology.
• Gather a multitude of powerful technology resources and tools for immediate use in the classroom.

Contents:
Introduction: Pedagogy Should Lead Technology Use in the Classroom
Chapter 1: Providing Specific and Timely Feedback
Chapter 2: Creating Nonlinguistic Representations for Deeper Understanding
Chapter 3: Using Technology Tools for Formative Evaluation
Chapter 4: Teaching Metacognitive With Technology
Chapter 5: Recognizing and Reinforcing the Efforts of Students, Schools, and Districts
Chapter 6: Collaborating and Cooperative Learning
Epilogue: Looking Ahead
Appendix: Technology Resources
References and Resources
Index