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  Grown Up Digital

  How the Net Generation is Changing the World

  by Don Tapscott

  SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST The Net Generation Has Arrived. Are you ready for it? Chances are you know a person between the ages of 11 and 30. You've seen them doing five things at once: texting friends, downloading music, uploading videos, watching a movie on a two-inch screen, and doing who-knows-what on Facebook or MySpace. They're the first... (more)
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  Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools

  by Gwen Solomon

  Web 2.0 has arrived--find out how it can transform teaching and learning! What is Web 2.0? Once upon a time, Web sites were isolated information 'silos'--all content and no functionality. Today, the next generation of Web sites gives power to the end-user, providing visitors with a new level of customization, interaction, and participation. Many Web sites now allow users to upload, categorize, and share content... (more)
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  How Teachers Learn Technology Best

  by Jamieson A. McKenzie

  Based on his more than 17 years of planning adult learning for teachers, this book brings you the best of Jamie McKenzie's previously published articles on professional development in a single convenient print collection.Table of Contents . Part One - A Question of Purpose Chapter One Lifting the Siege Chapter Two Learning Digitally Chapter Three Strategic... (more)
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  Project-Based Learning: Using Information Technology

  by David G. Moursund

  First published in 1999, Project-Based Learning Using Information Technology has become a classic in the field-and for good reason. David Moursund offers educators an inspiring vision of the possibilities of project-based learning and then shows them how to realize it in their classroom. Moursund deftly summarizes both the principles and supporting research on project-based learning, and walks teachers through the... (more)
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  Disrupting Class

  How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

  by Michael B. Horn, Curtis W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen

  Selected as one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazine Named the "Best Human-Capital Book of 2008" by Strategy + Business magazine A crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution … "Provocatively titled, Disrupting Class is just what America's K-12 education system... (more)
• Beyond Technology - Questioning, Research and the Information Literate SchoolJamie McKenzie

  

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  Beyond Technology - Questioning, Research and the Information Literate School

  by Jamieson A. McKenzie

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  National Educational Technology Standards for Students: Second Edition

  by NETS Project, Susan Brooks-Young

  First introduced in 1998, the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project is an ongoing initiative of the International Society for Technology in Education. In a unique partnership with teachers and teacher educators, curriculum and education associations, government, businesses, and private foundations, ISTE has responded to calls for educational technology standards, curriculum, and tools with its... (more)
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  English Language Arts Units for Grades 9-12 (National Educational Technology Standards for Students Curriculum Series)

  by Christopher Shamburg

  NETS*S Curriculum Series: English Language Arts Units for Grades 9-12 offers a holistic and reflective approach to using technology in the high school English class. Author Christopher Shamburg presents 12 language arts units that integrate technology into compelling, standards-based lessons. Examples of these units include fanfiction and creative writing, teaching Shakespeare with film and images, using blogs and... (more)
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  National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers: Second Edition

  by NETS Project

  First published in 2000, the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS*T) introduced ISTE s technology standards for teachers and included profiles for each stage of teacher education from general preparation through first-year teaching. ISTE is proud to announce this new edition of the NETS*T, which includes the new standards for students with its emphasis on skills and expertise supported by... (more)
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  iBrain

  Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind

  by Gigi Vorgan, Dr. Gary Small, MD

  Their insights are extraordinary, their behaviors unusual. Their brains—shaped by the era of microprocessors, access to limitless information, and 24-hour news and communication—are remapping, retooling, and evolving. They're not superhuman. They're your twenty-something coworkers, your children, and your competition. Are you keeping up? In iBrain , Dr. Gary Small, one of America's leading neuroscientists and... (more)
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  Preparing Teachers to Use Technology

  by NETS Project

  Preparing Teachers to Use Technology shows teacher educators how to effectively integrate technology into the lessons they plan for training novice and inservice teachers. Like Connecting Curriculum and Technology, Preparing Teachers is the product of writing teams that have brought together best practices from all over the United States. Professors of education, curriculum directors, technology coordinators, and... (more)
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  The Technology Director's Guide to Leadership: The Power of Great Questions

  by Don Hall

  Many technology coordinators and directors are initially tapped for the role because of their expertise in technology or instruction. However, they seldom receive training in how to be leaders and agents of change at the organizational level. Yet technology coordinators are increasingly being called upon to assume this mantle of leadership. Every organization and situation is different, and there are no 'silver... (more)
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  National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators

  by NETS Project

  'First released in 2002 by the Technology Standards for School Administrators Collaborative, the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators are indicators of what school and district leaders should know and be able to do to optimize the effective use of ICT in education. ISTE is proud to present the refreshed NETS*A, a consensus among educational stakeholders of what best indicates accomplished... (more)
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  Teaching and Researching Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Applied Linguistics in Action)

  by Ken Beatty

  Computers increasingly play an important role in education, particularly language learning. But Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) is constantly undergoing change because of technological advances that create opportunities to revisit old ideas, to conduct new research and to challenge established beliefs about the ways in which teaching and learning can be carried out both with and without a human teacher.... (more)
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  Global education : using technology to bring the world to your students

  by Laurence Peters

  Eleventh grade students in Bangladesh exchange video interviews with 10th-grade students in Georgia. High schoolers in Illinois learn Japanese, Hebrew, Latin, Spanish, French, and German using online discussions with counterparts from many different countries. Students from around the world research endangered animal species from their areas and publish their findings to a shared website. Connecting globally... (more)
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  Differentiating instruction with technology in the middle school classroom

  by Grace E. Smith

  Middle school is a time of growth and change for students, with each student changing and growing in different ways and at different rates. These students, like the rest of us, have different interests, different backgrounds, and different goals for their lives. Educators have a responsibility to treat and teach them as individuals. Differentiated Instruction (DI) makes this possible, and technology makes DI easy,... (more)
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  High-Tech Teaching Success! A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Innovative Technology in Your Classroom

  An easy-to-use guide to implementing the most exciting technologies to energize any classroom, High-Tech Teaching Success!: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Innovative Technology in Your Classroom gives classroom teachers exactly what they're looking for: advice from technology education experts on how the latest tools and software can be implemented into lesson plans to create differentiated, exciting curriculum... (more)
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  mLearning: Mobile Learning and Performance in the Palm of Your Hand (1)

  by David S. Metcalf III

  Gain back hours of useful time each day by learning “on the go” The next time you’re on the road, stuck in an airport or waiting in line, don’t allow your valuable time to be wasted by circumstances you can’t control. Turn on your PDA, smart phone or wireless connection and use those “stolen moments” to learn. Mobile learning—or mlearning—combines the technologies of mobile communications with any... (more)
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  Flattening classrooms, engaging minds : move to global collaboration one step at a time

  by Vicki A. Davis

  JOIN THE COMMUNITY: go to www.facebook.com/flatclassrooms to sign up for free webinars, chat with the authors, and connect with other teaching professionals around the world!   Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds presents a seven step approach to transforming teaching using current pedagogies, technology tools, and global collaboration to create standards-aligned, technology rich, cross-cultural... (more)
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  A Whole New Mind

  Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

  by Daniel H. Pink

  Described by reviewers as "an audacious and powerful work," "a profound read," "right on the money," and "a miracle," the book reveals the six abilities individuals must master in an outsourced and automated world. Several publications named A Whole New Mind one of the best business books of 2005. It is now being translated into 12 languages -- and will appear across Europe and Asia in 2006. For this... (more)