Product Description
A foundational guide for integrating mobile technologies into your classroom!
Writing for educators who want to use 21st-century technologies to help deliver relevant classroom instruction, Susan Brooks-Young examines inexpensive hardware already used by many students, explores free Web 2.0 tools such as social networking sites and virtual worlds, and sheds light on both common objections and changing points of view about using mobile technologies for instructional support.
Emphasizing digital citizenship—the ethical use of technology—this invaluable resource identifies:
- Specific Web 2.0 tools for supporting collaboration and communication in K–12 settings
- Strategies for practical applications
- A decision-making model for selecting appropriate mobile technologies and Web 2.0 tools for classroom use
- Recommended books, Web sites, and online reports and articles for reference
Teaching With the Tools Kids Really Use gives educators a solid approach for capitalizing on readily available technologies and opens up rich teaching and learning opportunities for today's classrooms!
Key Features:
- Each chapter discusses an emerging mobile technology that holds great promise for classroom use, provides ideas for instructional activities, and includes an annotated bibliography
- Provides discussion questions for use in a variety of adult learning situations
- Final section focuses on practical strategies for identifying and implementing use of emerging mobile technologies and Web 2.0 tools for instruction
- This section includes a discussion about current issues—including unanticipated consequences that may arise—and provides a decision-making model
- The decision-making model includes forms for information gathering and questions for discussion prior to arriving at a decision
