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Create Future-Ready Classrooms, Now!
Create Future-Ready Classrooms, Now!
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 new 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.
- 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.
TABLE OF 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 Metacognition With Technology
Chapter 5: Recognizing and Reinforcing the Efforts of Students, Schools, and Districts
Chapter 6: Collaborating and Cooperative Learning
EpilogueLooking Ahead
AppendixTechnology Resources
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Introduction
Online Tools for Cloud Computing
Chapter 1
Online Learning Management Systems Adopted by K–12 Districts
Chapter 2
Apps and Software for Editing Images
Online Image Databases
Websites for Broadcasting Live Video
Websites for Creating and Publishing Videos
Websites and Software for Creating and Publishing Podcasts
Websites for Searching for Audio Clips and Music
Websites for Searching for Copyright-Friendly Images
- Library of Congress, "American Memory”
- NASA, "Image Galleries”
- NOAA Photo Library
- Pics4Learning
- Stockvault
Chapter 3
Websites for Creating Blogs and Wikis
Websites for Designing Exit Slip Activities
Websites for Online Formative Assessment and Evaluation
Websites for Organizing and Managing Evaluations
Chapter 4
Examples of Screencasts
Websites and Apps for Creating Screencasts
- Camtasia
- Coach's Eye
- DoodleCast
- Educreations
- Explain Everything
- Jing
- Screencastify
- Screencast-O-Matic
- ScreenChomp
- ShowMe
- Sophia
Websites for Creating and Using Graphic Organizers
Websites for Creating Infographics
Websites for Creating Tag Clouds
Chapter 5
Websites for Reinforcing Positive Classroom Behavior
Websites for Creating and Using Digital Badges
Chapter 6
Websites for Managing Classrooms
- ClassDojo
- ExitTicket
- GroupMaker
- Padlet
- Pinterest, "Exit Slip Ideas”
- Super Teacher Tools, "Group Maker Tool”
Appendix
- Adobe Photoshop Element
- Animoto
- Audacity
- AudioNote
- Blackboard
- Blogger
- Bozeman Science
- Camtasia
- Canva
- Canvas
- ClassBadges
- ClassDojo
- Coach's Eye
- CompareNContrast
- Credly
- Do Ink
- Doodlecast
- Dropbox
- Easel.ly
- Edmodo
- Edublogs
- Educational hashtags
- Educreations
- Evernote
- ExitTicket
- Explain Everything
- FaceTime
- Flickr Advanced Search
- Flipped Learning Network
- Flubaroo
- GarageBand
- Gmail
- Google Advanced Search
- Google Classroom
- Google Docs
- Google Drawings
- Google Drive
- Google Forms
- Google Hangouts
- Google Sheets
- Google Slides
- GoPro
- GroupMaker
- Haiku Deck
- ImageChef
- iMovie
- Incompetech
- Infogr.am
- iTunes
- Jing
- Kahoot!
- Kaizena
- Khan Academy
- Kidblog
- Library of Congress
- Livescribe Smartpen
- MimioConnect
- Mobygratis
- My Big Campus
- NASA Images Gallery
- NOAA Photo Library
- OneNote
- Open Badges
- Padlet
- PBworks
- Picasa
- Pics4Learning
- Piktochart
- Pixlr
- PixyMe
- Plickers
- Podbean
- PodOmatic
- Poll Everywhere
- Promethean
- ReadWriteThink
- Remind
- RoyaltyFreeMusic.com
- Schoology
- Screencastify
- Screencast-O-Matic
- ScreenChomp
- ShowMe
- Skype
- Skype in the Classroom
- SMART Exchange
- Socrative
- Sophia
- StarBoard
- Stockvault
- Storify
- SuperTeacherTools Group Maker
- Tackk
- TagCrowd
- Tagul
- Tagxedo
- Teachers Pay Teachers
- TinyURL
- TodaysMeet
- Ustream
- Vimeo
- Visually
- VoiceThread
- WeVideo
- Wikispaces
- WordItOut
- Wordle
- YouTube