Your Library Is the Answer: Demonstrating Relevance to Tech-Savvy Learners
Today's tech-savvy and digitally connected students present a new challenge for today's school librarians. This book offers the 21st-century tools and know-how necessary for educators to appeal to and challenge students to learn—and to want to learn.

What are the best ways to motivate students to become engaged and develop a passion for learning? Can appealing to their desire for socialization and constant communication—attributes of their lives outside of education—via the integration of cutting-edge technologies and "new media" in the library or classroom serve to ignite creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking? This book shows how you can make use of non-traditional tools such as popular social networks, collaborative technologies, and cloud computing to teach information and communications technologies integrated with the school curriculum to improve student learning—and demonstrates how these same technologies can help you measure skills and mastery learning.

The book provides an easy-to-follow blueprint for using collaborative techniques, innovation, and teaching for creativity to achieve the new learning paradigm of self-directed learning, such as flipping the classroom or library. Readers of this book will find concrete, step-by-step examples of proven lesson plans, collaborative models, and time-saving strategies for the successful integration of American Association of School Librarians (AASL) standards. The authors—both award-winning teachers—explain the quantitatively and qualitatively measurable educational value of using these technologies for core curricular and information and communications technologies instruction, showing that they both enhance student learning outcomes and provide data for measuring their impact on learning.
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Your Library Is the Answer: Demonstrating Relevance to Tech-Savvy Learners
Today's tech-savvy and digitally connected students present a new challenge for today's school librarians. This book offers the 21st-century tools and know-how necessary for educators to appeal to and challenge students to learn—and to want to learn.

What are the best ways to motivate students to become engaged and develop a passion for learning? Can appealing to their desire for socialization and constant communication—attributes of their lives outside of education—via the integration of cutting-edge technologies and "new media" in the library or classroom serve to ignite creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking? This book shows how you can make use of non-traditional tools such as popular social networks, collaborative technologies, and cloud computing to teach information and communications technologies integrated with the school curriculum to improve student learning—and demonstrates how these same technologies can help you measure skills and mastery learning.

The book provides an easy-to-follow blueprint for using collaborative techniques, innovation, and teaching for creativity to achieve the new learning paradigm of self-directed learning, such as flipping the classroom or library. Readers of this book will find concrete, step-by-step examples of proven lesson plans, collaborative models, and time-saving strategies for the successful integration of American Association of School Librarians (AASL) standards. The authors—both award-winning teachers—explain the quantitatively and qualitatively measurable educational value of using these technologies for core curricular and information and communications technologies instruction, showing that they both enhance student learning outcomes and provide data for measuring their impact on learning.
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Your Library Is the Answer: Demonstrating Relevance to Tech-Savvy Learners

Your Library Is the Answer: Demonstrating Relevance to Tech-Savvy Learners

by Christina T. Russo, Cathy Swan
Your Library Is the Answer: Demonstrating Relevance to Tech-Savvy Learners

Your Library Is the Answer: Demonstrating Relevance to Tech-Savvy Learners

by Christina T. Russo, Cathy Swan

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Today's tech-savvy and digitally connected students present a new challenge for today's school librarians. This book offers the 21st-century tools and know-how necessary for educators to appeal to and challenge students to learn—and to want to learn.

What are the best ways to motivate students to become engaged and develop a passion for learning? Can appealing to their desire for socialization and constant communication—attributes of their lives outside of education—via the integration of cutting-edge technologies and "new media" in the library or classroom serve to ignite creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking? This book shows how you can make use of non-traditional tools such as popular social networks, collaborative technologies, and cloud computing to teach information and communications technologies integrated with the school curriculum to improve student learning—and demonstrates how these same technologies can help you measure skills and mastery learning.

The book provides an easy-to-follow blueprint for using collaborative techniques, innovation, and teaching for creativity to achieve the new learning paradigm of self-directed learning, such as flipping the classroom or library. Readers of this book will find concrete, step-by-step examples of proven lesson plans, collaborative models, and time-saving strategies for the successful integration of American Association of School Librarians (AASL) standards. The authors—both award-winning teachers—explain the quantitatively and qualitatively measurable educational value of using these technologies for core curricular and information and communications technologies instruction, showing that they both enhance student learning outcomes and provide data for measuring their impact on learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798216169475
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 01/22/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 236
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Christina T. Russo, MLS, is the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) librarian at the New Canaan High School, New Canaan, CT.

Cathy Swan is a Google Certified Teacher and world language consultant. She was formerly technology integration and world language teacher at New Canaan Public Schools, New Canaan, CT.

Table of Contents

Contents



Introduction



Part I: Advocate and Manage

Chapter 1: Leadership

Chapter 2: Mission and Core Values



Part II: Socialize and Engage

Chapter 3: Environment: Culture and Climate

Chapter 4: Social Bookmarking / Participatory Learning / Collaborative Research



Part III: Communicate and Collaborate

Chapter 5: Collaborative Technologies and Cloud Computing

Chapter 6: GAFE: Google APPS for Education

Chapter 7: Online Blended Learning



Part IV: Network

Chapter 8: Establish Professional Learning Network



Part V: Use Standards

Chapter 9: Common Core



Part VI: Instruct

Chapter 10: Instruction

Chapter 11: Assessment

Chapter 12: PLCs



Part VII: Search

Chapter 13: Google Search: Strategies and Protocols

Chapter 14: Literacy: digital, reading, writing, numeracy and inquiry



Part VIII: Create

Chapter 15: Creativity and Curiosity



Part IX: Digitize: Publish and Produce

Chapter 16: Plagiarism

Chapter 17: Copyright and Intellectual Property

Chapter 18: Cybersafety



Part X: Innovate and Adapt

Chapter 19: New and Emerging Technologies



Conclusion

Bibliography

Index
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