The Secret Reasons Why Teachers Are Not Using Web 2.0 Tools and What School Librarians Can Do about It
School librarians need a simple action plan for overcoming the barriers to adopting School Library 2.0. This book provides one, and describes how fully integrating technology would dramatically benefit 21st-century schools.

Web 2.0 and its associated tools have the power to substantially increase student achievement. This book has two straightforward primary purposes: to detail the research-based reasons classroom teachers fail to incorporate Web 2.0 tools into their instruction and collaboration with other educators; and to provide actionable strategies to rectify these omissions.

The Secret Reasons Why Teachers Are Not Using Web 2.0 Tools and What School Librarians Can Do about It provides authoritative definitions of Web 2.0, explains the types of Web 2.0 tools suited for use in educational settings, examines the research-based reasons they are underutilized, and offers strategies for school librarians to model the use of technology-enabled tools—and for teaching others to do so. This book will benefit anyone wishing to effect a positive social change in improving student achievement: practicing K–12 librarians and educators, K–12 school and district administrators, and researchers in the field of K–12 education.

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The Secret Reasons Why Teachers Are Not Using Web 2.0 Tools and What School Librarians Can Do about It
School librarians need a simple action plan for overcoming the barriers to adopting School Library 2.0. This book provides one, and describes how fully integrating technology would dramatically benefit 21st-century schools.

Web 2.0 and its associated tools have the power to substantially increase student achievement. This book has two straightforward primary purposes: to detail the research-based reasons classroom teachers fail to incorporate Web 2.0 tools into their instruction and collaboration with other educators; and to provide actionable strategies to rectify these omissions.

The Secret Reasons Why Teachers Are Not Using Web 2.0 Tools and What School Librarians Can Do about It provides authoritative definitions of Web 2.0, explains the types of Web 2.0 tools suited for use in educational settings, examines the research-based reasons they are underutilized, and offers strategies for school librarians to model the use of technology-enabled tools—and for teaching others to do so. This book will benefit anyone wishing to effect a positive social change in improving student achievement: practicing K–12 librarians and educators, K–12 school and district administrators, and researchers in the field of K–12 education.

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The Secret Reasons Why Teachers Are Not Using Web 2.0 Tools and What School Librarians Can Do about It

The Secret Reasons Why Teachers Are Not Using Web 2.0 Tools and What School Librarians Can Do about It

by Peggy Milam Creighton Ph.D.
The Secret Reasons Why Teachers Are Not Using Web 2.0 Tools and What School Librarians Can Do about It

The Secret Reasons Why Teachers Are Not Using Web 2.0 Tools and What School Librarians Can Do about It

by Peggy Milam Creighton Ph.D.

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Overview

School librarians need a simple action plan for overcoming the barriers to adopting School Library 2.0. This book provides one, and describes how fully integrating technology would dramatically benefit 21st-century schools.

Web 2.0 and its associated tools have the power to substantially increase student achievement. This book has two straightforward primary purposes: to detail the research-based reasons classroom teachers fail to incorporate Web 2.0 tools into their instruction and collaboration with other educators; and to provide actionable strategies to rectify these omissions.

The Secret Reasons Why Teachers Are Not Using Web 2.0 Tools and What School Librarians Can Do about It provides authoritative definitions of Web 2.0, explains the types of Web 2.0 tools suited for use in educational settings, examines the research-based reasons they are underutilized, and offers strategies for school librarians to model the use of technology-enabled tools—and for teaching others to do so. This book will benefit anyone wishing to effect a positive social change in improving student achievement: practicing K–12 librarians and educators, K–12 school and district administrators, and researchers in the field of K–12 education.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781586835323
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/13/2012
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

Peggy Milam Creighton, PhD, is a writer, speaker, and educator with an interest in educational technology. She is currently a school library media specialist in Atlanta, GA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 What Is Web 2.0? 1

What Do You Know about Web 2.0? 1

Defining the World Wide Web 2

Defining Web 2.0 6

Web 2.0 Teaching Tools to Use Now! 21

Where Do We Go from Here? 31

Action Steps 32

Interactive Features of This Chapter 32

Final Thoughts 33

Extending the Conversation 33

Chapter 2 Barriers to Using Web 2.0 in 21st-Century Schools 37

The Impact of Web 2.0 on K-12 Education 38

The Digital Divide 45

Advantages of Web 2.0 49

Disadvantages of Web 2.0 51

Action Steps 53

Extending the Conversation 53

Chapter 3 School Library 2.0 55

Web 2.0 56

Web 2.0 Tools for School Librarians and Readers to Use Now! 58

Other Popular Tools 58

Implications for School Librarians 72

Action Steps 72

Final Thoughts 73

Extending the Conversation 73

Chapter 4 Interpreting the Research 75

Research on Web 2.0 in 21st-Century Schools 76

Research-based Reasons Teachers Are Not Using Web 2.0 76

Implications for Practice 83

Action Steps 34

Extending the Conversation 34

Chapter 5 How School Librarians Can Serve as Change Agents in Their Schools 87

The Setting 88

The Seven-Step Plan 89

Scenarios 94

Influence Beyond the Local School 93

Next Steps 99

Extending the Conversation 99

Glossary 101

Works Cited 105

Index 109

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