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The Best of Corwin: Educational Technology for School Leaders

This collection offers key chapters from Corwin’s leadership and educational technology books that focus on 21st century challenges, technology and learning, cyber safety, and cyberbullying.

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  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781452217277
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: The Best of Corwin
  • Year: 2011
  • Page Count: 240
  • Publication date: September 13, 2011
Price: $31.95

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The 21st century is here—are you ready?

The Best of Corwin series showcases key chapters from critically acclaimed Corwin publications for a powerful compilation of perspectives on important education issues and topics. This collection offers some of the most important chapters from Corwin's leadership and educational technology books and focuses on 21st century challenges, technology and learning, and cyber safety. Best-selling author Lynne Schrum's edited volume explores the following topics and more:

  • Ways to create the new educational environment today's learners need
  • How to lead change in schools
  • Curriculum, instruction, and assessment in the 21st century
  • Methods for creating a safe environment, including preventing cyberbullying
  • Assessing 21st century learning: how schools can examine progress and growth

This volume offers numerous tips, strategies, tools, and samples, including a sample Internet use contract and a sample acceptable use policy. If educators are well informed on the breadth and depth of 21st century skills and ways to approach them, they can prepare students today for life, postsecondary education, and careers.


Key features

  1. Features the work of some of the leading figures in the field of educational technology and 21st century learning, including Marc Prensky, Lynne Schrum, Alan November , Sameer Hinduja and Justin Patchin.
  2. Explores a full range of critical issues related to leading 21st century schools, including today's learners; their need for a new educational environment, and how to lead that change in schools; 21st century high schools; 21st century curriculum , instruction, and assessment; cyber safety; and preventing and responding to cyberbullying.
  3. Offers numerous tips, strategies, tools and samples to support school leaders in their practice , including a sample Internet Use Policy, and a sample Acceptable Use Policy.
  4. Provides an entire chapter on assessment of 21st century learning that examines multiple ways a school and its many participants can examine progress and growth.

Author(s)

Lynne Schrum

Lynne Schrum is Dean of the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education at Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Previously, she was the Dean of the College of Education and Human Services at West Virginia University. Prior to that, she was a professor and coordinator of elementary education in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. Her research and teaching focus on preparing teachers for the 21st century, appropriate uses of information technology, and leadership in a digital world. She has written eleven books and numerous articles on these subjects; the most recent is How 2, Web 2: How to for Educators. Schrum served on AERA’s Council, was editor of the Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE) (2002-2012), and is a past-president of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

About the Editor

About the Contributors

Part I. Our 21st-Century Schools

1. Partnering: A Pedagogy for the New Educational Landscape

2. No More Cookie-Cutter High Schools

3. Strategic Leadership: Encouraging and Assessing Technology Integration

4. Emerging Roles Within the Knowledge Community

Part II. Technology-Powered Classrooms

5. Understanding Youth and Digital Media

6. "Short": Social Networking in a Low-Tech Environment

7. Why Use Web 2.0 Tools With ELLs?

8. Assessment in the Partnership Pedagogy

Part III. Safety and Policy Matters

9. Policies, Procedures, and Contracts: Communicating Expectations to Teachers, Students, and Parents

10. Preventing Cyberbullying

11. Top Ten Rules That Govern School Authority Over Student Cyber Expressions

References

Reviews

Quote by Dolores Swineford, Principal, Walbridge Elementary, Millbury, OH: "This 'mini-encyclopedia' on technology and 21st century learning addresses technology integration, cyber law, cyber bullying, reverse mentoring, building community knowledge on technology with resources--websites, lesson plans, discussion questions. This is a great book for school leaders and parents alike."
"This 'mini-encyclopedia' on technology and 21st century learning addresses technology integration, cyber law, cyber bullying, reverse mentoring, building community knowledge on technology with resources--websites, lesson plans, discussion questions. This is a great book for school leaders and parents alike."
Dolores Swineford, Principal
Walbridge Elementary, Millbury, OH
Price: $31.95

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