Learning Supercharged: Digital Age Strategies and Insights from the EdTech Frontier
Explore how to apply innovative, technology-driven strategies in the classroom to create personalized and dynamic learning experiences for your students.

As educators seek out new ways to energize and engage their students and prepare them for the future, they need to know how to employ the latest technologies in creative and innovative ways.

Learning Supercharged looks at emerging approaches and tools, and incorporates professional educators’ stories of how and why they have implemented each trend, including information on challenges faced and overcome, how to get started and other resources to explore.

Topics covered include:
  • Digital equity considerations
  • Digital citizenship
  • Personalized learning Project-based learning
  • Blending formal and informal learning
  • Coding and robotics
  • Makerspaces
  • Gamification and badging
  • Open Educational Resources (OERs)

The book inspires educators to try new approaches with the understanding that they will devise new ways to synthesize, interpret and implement ideas to fit their context, learners and resources.

Audience: K-12 educators, teacher educators
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Learning Supercharged: Digital Age Strategies and Insights from the EdTech Frontier
Explore how to apply innovative, technology-driven strategies in the classroom to create personalized and dynamic learning experiences for your students.

As educators seek out new ways to energize and engage their students and prepare them for the future, they need to know how to employ the latest technologies in creative and innovative ways.

Learning Supercharged looks at emerging approaches and tools, and incorporates professional educators’ stories of how and why they have implemented each trend, including information on challenges faced and overcome, how to get started and other resources to explore.

Topics covered include:
  • Digital equity considerations
  • Digital citizenship
  • Personalized learning Project-based learning
  • Blending formal and informal learning
  • Coding and robotics
  • Makerspaces
  • Gamification and badging
  • Open Educational Resources (OERs)

The book inspires educators to try new approaches with the understanding that they will devise new ways to synthesize, interpret and implement ideas to fit their context, learners and resources.

Audience: K-12 educators, teacher educators
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Learning Supercharged: Digital Age Strategies and Insights from the EdTech Frontier

Learning Supercharged: Digital Age Strategies and Insights from the EdTech Frontier

Learning Supercharged: Digital Age Strategies and Insights from the EdTech Frontier

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Overview

Explore how to apply innovative, technology-driven strategies in the classroom to create personalized and dynamic learning experiences for your students.

As educators seek out new ways to energize and engage their students and prepare them for the future, they need to know how to employ the latest technologies in creative and innovative ways.

Learning Supercharged looks at emerging approaches and tools, and incorporates professional educators’ stories of how and why they have implemented each trend, including information on challenges faced and overcome, how to get started and other resources to explore.

Topics covered include:
  • Digital equity considerations
  • Digital citizenship
  • Personalized learning Project-based learning
  • Blending formal and informal learning
  • Coding and robotics
  • Makerspaces
  • Gamification and badging
  • Open Educational Resources (OERs)

The book inspires educators to try new approaches with the understanding that they will devise new ways to synthesize, interpret and implement ideas to fit their context, learners and resources.

Audience: K-12 educators, teacher educators

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781564846785
Publisher: ASCD
Publication date: 06/14/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Lynne Schrum, Ph.D., is a professor in the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education at Nova Southeastern University in Broward County, Florida. Previously, she served as dean of the College of Education and Human Services at West Virginia University. Her research and teaching focus on appropriate uses of information technology, preparing school leaders and teachers for the 21st century, and effective and successful online teaching and learning. She has written and edited 16 books and numerous articles, and she’s a past editor of the Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE) (2002-2012; 2016-2018). Schrum is also a past president of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
Sandi Sumerfield, Ed.D., has been a classroom teacher, literacy coach, administrator, adjunct faculty and education consultant. Her research and teaching focus on visual literacy skills to empower students as writers and thinkers. She’s passionate about supporting educators in creating a classroom community that embraces social justice and develops a culturally responsive pedagogy that lifts student voice through writing.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction 1

Who Should Read This Book? 1

What Is the Rationale Behind this Book? 2

How Is This Book Organized? 3

What Special Features Are in This Book? 5

Chapter 1 Stem Initiatives, Robotics, and Coding 7

What Is the Stem Initiative? 8

Coding and Robotics 10

Where Are the Examples? 12

University and K-12 Interactions 32

Summary 37

Questions and Reflections 38

Further Resources to Get Started 39

Chapter 2 Makerspaces and the maker movement 41

What Are Makerspaces and the Maker Movement? 42

What Do We Know About Makerspaces and Making? 43

What Types of Makerspaces Exist? 44

How Are Educators Implementing Makerspaces? 48

Teacher Education and Makerspaces 50

Informal Education and the Maker Movement 54

Fitting Making Into Your School: Getting Started 59

Summary 60

Questions and Reflections 61

Further Resources to Get Started 62

Chapter 3 Gamificatian and Digital Game-Based Learning 65

What Do We Know About Gamification? 66

Foundations of Game-Based Learning 66

Gamification 67

Game-Based Learning 67

Game-Based Learning Aligned with the Digital Age Classroom 68

Tools for Formative and Summative Assessment 69

How Are Educators Implementing Gamification? 70

Educator Preparation and Professional Development Use 73

Fitting Gamification into Your School: Getting Started 75

Summary 78

Questions and Reflections 79

Further Resources to Get Started 79

Chapter 4 Digital Citizenship 81

What Do We Know About Digital Citizenship? 82

Responsible Use Policy 84

Privacy 85

Cyberbullying 85

Counterspeech 86

Examples of Digital Citizenship Activities 87

Fitting Digital Citizenship into Your School: Getting Started 93

Summary 96

Questions and Reflections 97

Further Resources to Get Started 97

Chapter 5 Pedagogical Changes: Project-Based Learning end Personalized Learning 101

What Is the Foundation of Project-Based Learning? 102

PBL for the Digital Age Classroom 102

Teacher and Student Roles in a PBL Classroom 103

Personalized Learning 105

How Are These Two Educational Pedagogies Being Used? 107

Learning Management Systems 123

Summary 123

Questions and Reflections 124

Further Resources to Get Started 125

Chapter 6 Efforts toward Bridging the Digital Divide 127

Background and Current Status 128

School Districts Respond 137

Libraries Respond, Too 140

Community Approaches to Digital Equity 143

Summary 148

Questions and Reflections 149

Further Resources to Get Started 149

Chapter 7 Blending of Formal, Nonformal, and Informal Education 151

What Is Known About Formal, Nonformal, and Informal Learning? 152

Focus on Science and STEM 153

Learning and Science Museums 157

Virtual Field Trips 161

Non-STEM Foci 168

Technology Assistance: Blending Formal and informal 170

Other Examples 172

Blending Formal and Informal for Preservice and Practitioners 173

Summary 174

Questions and Reflections 175

Further Resources to Get Started 175

Chapter 8 Lessons Learned, Emerging Themes, and Looking Forward 179

Lessons Learned and Emerging Themes 180

Examples Within a School 184

Examples Within a Community 193

A Bigger Picture 198

A Look into the Future-Where Do We Go from Here? 206

Summary 208

Epilogue 209

References 211

Index 229

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