What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
BBB Library: Education, Technology and Globalization
ISBN: 978-1118022245
Editorial Review
There is near-universal agreement that schools must find ways to transform older teaching practices in order to harness the tools that students have at their disposal today. This book introduces you to many of the most useful tools and concepts for an education setting so that you can decide, along with teachers and students and parents, which ones make the most sense for your school. Whether it is the expansion of social networking technologies, the power of digital media creation tools, or the ability to publish to the world instantly, our students and teachers have access to more information than ever before. We all now have the unprecedented ability to create powerful artifacts of learning. It is an exciting time to be a teacher and a learner.
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