What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media

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Scott McLeod, Chris Lehmann
John Wiley & Sons, Oct 25, 2011 - Education - 224 pages
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.

 

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Contents

Blogs
3
Wikis
13
Podcasts and Webinars
25
RSS and RSS Readers
37
Digital Video
45
Virtual Schooling
53
Social Media Is Changing the
67
One to One Computing
75
Course Management Systems
117
See Sally Research Evolving
123
Online Tool Suites
137
Twitter
147
Online Images and Visual Literacy
153
Mobile Phones and Mobile Learning
159
Social Networking
173
Afterword
183

Free and Open Source Software
83
Educational Gaming
93
Social Bookmarking
101
Online Mind Mapping
107
About the Editors
189
Index
203
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About the author (2011)

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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Bibliographic information

TitleWhat School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media
EditorsScott McLeod, Chris Lehmann
ContributorDavid F. Warlick
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1118022246, 9781118022245
Length224 pages
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