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What school leaders need to know about digital technologies and social media
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1st ed.
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San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2012
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x, 214 p. ; 24 cm.
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9781118022245
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Facebook, Twitter, Google...today's tech-savvy students are always plugged in. However, all too often their teachers and administrators aren't experienced in the use of these familiar digital tools. If schools are to prepare students for the future, administrators and educators must harness the power of digital technologies and social media.

With contributions from authorities on the topic of educational technology, What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media is a compendium of the most useful tools for any education setting. Throughout the book, experts including Will Richardson, Vicki Davis, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Richard Byrne, Joyce Valenza, and many others explain how administrators and teachers can best integrate technology into schools, helping to make sense of the often-confusing world of social media and digital tools. They offer the most current information for the educational use of blogs, wikis and podcasts, online learning, open-source courseware, educational gaming, social networking, online mind mapping, mobile phones, and more, and include examples of these methods currently at work in schools. As the book clearly illustrates, when these tools are combined with thoughtful and deliberate pedagogical practice, it can create a transformative experience for students, educators, and administrators alike.

What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media reveals the power of information technology and social networks in the classroom and throughout the education community.


Author Notes

The Editors

Scott McLeod is an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. McLeod created the first graduate program built specifically to prepare tech-savvy school leaders at the University of Minnesota. A recognized expert on K−12 school technology leadership issues, McLeod works with educational, corporate, and nonprofit partners to move schools into the twenty-first century. McLeod also serves as the director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE) and writes the popular education blog Dangerously Irrelevant (www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org).

Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This groundbreaking school, which integrates technology throughout classrooms and administration, has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School and was named one of the "Ten Most Amazing Schools" in Ladies Home Journal . Lehmann was named one of the "30 Most Influential People in EdTech" by Tech & Learning magazine in June 2010 and has received several other distinctions and awards throughout his career. He is a regular speaker and the author of the Practical Theory blog (www.practicaltheory.org).

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Table of Contents

David WarlickKristin Hokanson and Christian LongStephanie Sandifer and Vicki A. DavisSteve Dembo and Wesley FryerWill Richardson and Karl FischMathew NeedlemanMichael Barbour and Richard E. FerdigSheryl Nussbaum-BeachChris Lehmann and Pamela LivingstonTom HoffmanJohn W. RiceDean Shareski and Mary Beth HertzCarl Anderson and Richard ByrneScott S. Floyd and Miguel GuhlinJoyce Kasman Valenza and Doug JohnsonDiana Laufenberg and Mark WagnerAlec Couros and Kevin JarrettKimberly Cofino and David JakesLiz Kolb and Sharon TonnerEwan McIntosh and Jeff UtechtChristopher D. Sessums
Forewordp. vii
Introductionp. 1
1 Blogsp. 3
2 Wikisp. 13
3 Podcasts and Webinarsp. 25
4 RSS and RSS Readersp. 37
5 Digital Videop. 45
6 Virtual Schoolingp. 53
Interlude: Social Media Is Changing the Way We Live and Learnp. 67
7 One-to-One Computingp. 75
8 Free and Open Source Softwarep. 83
9 Educational Gamingp. 93
10 Social Bookmarkingp. 101
11 Online Mind Mappingp. 107
12 Course Management Systemsp. 117
Interlude: See Sally Research: Evolving Notions of Information Literacyp. 123
13 Online Tool Suitesp. 137
14 Twitterp. 147
15 Online Images and Visual Literacyp. 153
16 Mobile Phones and Mobile Learningp. 159
17 Social Networkingp. 173
Afterwordp. 183
About the Editorsp. 189
About the Contributorsp. 191
Indexp. 203