5 Skills for the Global Learner: What Everyone Needs to Navigate the Digital World

by Mark D. Barnes

Overview

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. To explore the other books in this series, visit the Corwin Connected Educators website.

Check out the Connected Educator Series matrix to find out which book is right for you.   

"It′s a fact that not just our children, but all of us, are global learners. Equipping global educators who are comfortable navigating rapidly shifting digital platforms is vital. Mark Barnes cogently shows this in 5 Skills for the Global Learner, where the emphasis is on building digital skills and digital literacy. This book is a great addition to the Connected Educator′s toolkit."
— Homa S. Tavangar, Author, Growing Up Global (Random House) and The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners (Corwin)

"Educators, parents, and businesses around the world wonder if we are preparing today’s youth for the challenges they will face tomorrow in our interconnected world. Both new and experienced teachers will appreciate these 5 essential skills that encourage communication and collaboration throughout the digital world. As a teacher and advocate of global education, I believe these resources and tips launch the foundation our students need for the 21st century."
— Becky Morales, Author of The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners (Corwin) and Founder of kidworldcitizen.org

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483382937
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/30/2015
Series:	Corwin Connected Educators Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mark Barnes is a veteran classroom teacher, education consultant, and author of the critically acclaimed Role Reversal: Achieving Uncommonly Excellent Results in the Student-Centered Classroom (ASCD, 2013), The 5-Minute Teacher (ASCD, 2013) and Teaching the iStudent (Corwin, 2014). A longtime adjunct professor at two Ohio colleges, Mark has created five online courses on web-based instruction, mobile learning, and using Twitter in the classroom and as a professional development tool. A leading expert on student-centered learning, Mark has helped thousands of educators build digitally enhanced, project-based, no-grades classrooms. Mark is the creator of the internationally recognized how-to video site for educators, Learn it in 5, and publisher of the popular education blog Brilliant or Insane. Named a Top 10 education technology blog by EdTech Magazine in 2014, B or I inspires hundreds of thousands of loyal readers. Mark’s Facebook group, Teachers Throwing Out Grades, is a growing collection of educators dedicated to changing the way learning is assessed, and this group helped launch the #ThrowOutGrades Challenge. Mark can be found sharing information and articles about best practices in education daily on Twitter at @markbarnes19.

http://www.markbarnes19.com/

http://www.brilliant-insane.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/teachersthrowingoutgrades/

View the author′s TED talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JShsO5PvYG4

Table of Contents

Preface by Peter DeWitt
Introduction
1. Creating and Sharing Digital Information
Screencasting for Teaching and Learning
Digital Communication
2. Using Social Media for Worldwide Sharing
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
3. Digital Publishing
The Personal Blog
Storybird and Other Digital Publishers
YouTube
4. Building a Personal Learning Network
A Global Learning Network
Constructing an Effective PLN
5. Using Aggregators to Create, Maintain, and Share Content
What′s an Aggregator?
Scoop.It
Feedly
Hootsuite
Conclusion
References

Editorial Reviews

"Educators, parents, and businesses around the world wonder if we are preparing today’s youth for the challenges they will face tomorrow in our interconnected world. Both new and experienced teachers will appreciate these 5 essential skills that encourage communication and collaboration throughout the digital world. As a teacher and advocate of global education, I believe these resources and tips launch the foundation our students need for the 21st century. "

Becky Morales

"As of now there are about 20 books in the Corwin Connected Educator Series, a seemingly ever-growing set of titles masterminded by Peter De Witt and Corwin Press. Each book is short enough to be read in one sitting, which makes the collection ideal for book studies and professional development, both during the summer and throughout the school year. Also, each paperback is authored by one or two educators who speak (and blog, tweet, etc.) with a credible voice in the world of connected education. Some of the topics include:

• Flipped leadership

• Tools for connecting educators, parents, and communities

• Blogging for educators

• Best practices for establishing a makerspace

• Tools to connect and empower teachers

Finally, all of the authors are active on social media, and they regularly present at local conferences, which helps in bringing to life the contents of these books. "

Ross Cooper

"It's a fact that not just our children, but all of us are global learners. So, equipping global educators who are comfortable navigating rapidly shifting digital platforms is vital. Mark Barnes cogently shows this in 5 Skills for the Global Learner, where the emphasis is on building digital skills and digital literacy. This book is a great addition to the Connected Educator's toolkit. "

Homa S. Tavangar