5 Skills for the Global Learner

What Everyone Needs to Navigate the Digital World
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4833-8291-3
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 64 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 101 g

Reihe: Corwin Connected Educators Series

Tap the power of digital learning!

In today’s digital world, distance and cultural differences are inconsequential. Technology empowers students and provides them with unlimited resources and opportunities. With this easy guide, you’ll learn the five essential skills to transform students into global learners:

- Creating and sharing digital information
- Using social media
- Digital publishing
- Building a personal learning network
- Using aggregators to create, maintain, and share content

Loaded with tips and examples for using PLNs, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Jing, and other essential tools, this breakthrough guide to incredible learning opportunities will keep you and your students a step ahead!

The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it’s a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning.

"It's a fact that not just our children, but all of us, are global learners. Equipping global educators who are comfortable navigating rapidly shifting digital platforms is vital. Mark Barnes cogently shows this in 5 Skills for the Global Learner, where the emphasis is on building digital skills and digital literacy. This book is a great addition to the Connected Educator's toolkit."

— Homa S. Tavangar, Author, Growing Up Global (Random House) and The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners (Corwin)

"Educators, parents, and businesses around the world wonder if we are preparing today’s youth for the challenges they will face tomorrow in our interconnected world. Both new and experienced teachers will appreciate these 5 essential skills that encourage communication and collaboration throughout the digital world. As a teacher and advocate of global education, I believe these resources and tips launch the foundation our students need for the 21st century."
— Becky Morales, Author of The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners (Corwin) and Founder of kidworldcitizen.org

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnes, Mark D

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik E-Learning, Bildungstechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by Peter DeWitt
Introduction
1. Creating and Sharing Digital Information
Screencasting for Teaching and Learning
Digital Communication
2. Using Social Media for Worldwide Sharing
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
3. Digital Publishing
The Personal Blog
Storybird and Other Digital Publishers
YouTube
4. Building a Personal Learning Network
A Global Learning Network
Constructing an Effective PLN
5. Using Aggregators to Create, Maintain, and Share Content
What's an Aggregator?
Scoop.It
Feedly
Hootsuite
Conclusion
References

Über Autor(innen)

Barnes, Mark D
Mark Barnes is a veteran classroom teacher, education consultant, and author of the critically acclaimed Role Reversal: Achieving Uncommonly Excellent Results in the Student-Centered Classroom (ASCD, 2013), The 5-Minute Teacher (ASCD, 2013) and Teaching the iStudent (Corwin, 2014). A longtime adjunct professor at two Ohio colleges, Mark has created five online courses on web-based instruction, mobile learning, and using Twitter in the classroom and as a professional development tool. A leading expert on student-centered learning, Mark has helped thousands of educators build digitally enhanced, project-based, no-grades classrooms. Mark is the creator of the internationally recognized how-to video site for educators, Learn it in 5, and publisher of the popular education blog Brilliant or Insane. Named a Top 10 education technology blog by EdTech Magazine in 2014, B or I inspires hundreds of thousands of loyal readers. Mark’s Facebook group, Teachers Throwing Out Grades, is a growing collection of educators dedicated to changing the way learning is assessed, and this group helped launch the #ThrowOutGrades Challenge. Mark can be found sharing information and articles about best practices in education daily on Twitter at @markbarnes19.


http://www.markbarnes19.com/

http://www.brilliant-insane.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/teachersthrowingoutgrades/

View the author's TED talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JShsO5PvYG4