Empowering Students with Technology, 2nd Editions, Nov/2009
| Author(s) | Alan November |
| ISBN10 | 1412974259 |
| ISBN13 | 9781412974257 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 136 |
| Year Publish | 2009 November |
Synopsis
From an international leader who demonstrates the ways in which technology can expand students’ learning experiences and strengthen critical thinking, this second edition of Alan November’s best-selling book promises to energize classrooms with innovative ideas to spark learners’ interest and rekindle your joy of teaching.
The updated edition of Empowering Students With Technology helps students and teachers connect content to real life through fifty Web sites, new resources, and the wide world of learning relationships that are available through technology. Learning adventures powered by technology provide practical lesson ideas. Real-life stories demonstrate not only what is possible but also what technology is already accomplishing in classrooms.
Updated throughout, this timely revision includes new information about online learning and examines:
- Information literacy
- Learning in a globally connected knowledge community
- Increased access to information
- New relationships in 21st-century learning.
About The Author:
Alan November began his education career as a science and math teacher and a residential dorm counselor on an island reform school in Boston Harbor. November went on as a teacher and administrator in the Boston Public Schools, Lexington and Wellesley (Massachusetts) Public Schools, and the Glenbrook High Schools in Illinois. He has also taught in the graduate schools of education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Seton Hall in New Jersey. He was the cofounder of the Institute for Education Leadership and Technology at Stanford University. He has presented in all 50 states, every province of Canada, across Europe, Asia, Central America, and South Africa. He is most proud of being named one of the first Christa McAuliffe Educators in the United States. November is the author of the best-selling book Empowering Students With Technology. Each July, November leads the international Building Learning Communities summer conference near Boston.
