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The 21st century is here—are you ready?
The Best of Corwin series showcases key chapters from critically acclaimed Corwin publications for a powerful compilation of perspectives on important education issues and topics. This collection offers some of the most important chapters from Corwin's leadership and educational technology books and focuses on 21st century challenges, technology and learning, and cyber safety. Best-selling author Lynne Schrum's edited volume explores the following topics and more:
Ways to create the new educational environment today's learners need
How to lead change in schools
Curriculum, instruction, and assessment in the 21st century
Methods for creating a safe environment, including preventing cyberbullying
Assessing 21st century learning: how schools can examine progress and growth
This volume offers numerous tips, strategies, tools, and samples, including a sample Internet use contract and a sample acceptable use policy. If educators are well informed on the breadth and depth of 21st century skills and ways to approach them, they can prepare students today for life, postsecondary education, and careers.
Contents
Preface - Lynne Schrum
Introduction - Lynne Schrum
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Part I. Our 21st-Century Schools
1. Partnering: A Pedagogy for the New Educational Landscape - Marc Prensky
2. No More Cookie-Cutter High Schools - Frank S. Kelly, Ted McCain, and Ian Jukes
3. Strategic Leadership: Encouraging and Assessing Technology Integration - Lynne Schrum and Barbara B. Levin
4. Emerging Roles Within the Knowledge Community - Alan November
Part II. Technology-Powered Classrooms
5. Understanding Youth and Digital Media - Jessica K. Parker
6. "Short": Social Networking in a Low-Tech Environment - William Kist
7. Why Use Web 2.0 Tools With ELLs? - Lori Langer de Ramirez
8. Assessment in the Partnership Pedagogy - Marc Prensky
Part III. Safety and Policy Matters
9. Policies, Procedures, and Contracts: Communicating Expectations to Teachers, Students, and Parents - Aimée M. Bissonette
10. Preventing Cyberbullying - Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. Patchin
11. Top Ten Rules That Govern School Authority Over Student Cyber Expressions - Jill Joline Myers, Donna S. McCaw, and Leaunda S. Hemphill
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