Product Description
Tap the power of digital learning!
In today’s digital world, distance and cultural differences are inconsequential. Technology empowers students and provides them with unlimited resources and opportunities. With this easy guide, you’ll learn the five essential skills to transform students into global learners:
- Creating and sharing digital information
- Using social media
- Digital publishing
- Building a personal learning network
- Using aggregators to create, maintain, and share content
Loaded with tips and examples for using PLNs, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Jing, and other essential tools, this breakthrough guide to incredible learning opportunities will keep you and your students a step ahead!
The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it’s a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning.
Key Features:
Educational Technology expert Mark Barnes shares five skills that are necessary for students, as we prepare them to live in a globalized society. Although mobile, worldwide learning is far more accessible now and will continue to become increasingly easy, students are not inherently skilled at responsibly curating, creating, and sharing content throughout the world. This book will provide five basic skills that will prepare students for global learning.
- Learn from a social media expert how to connect your classroom all over the world
- Learn five skills that will empower your students to thrive and succeed in an increasingly global society
- The book will be supported by extra resources on the Connected Educators companion website
