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Use the Cloud to Individualize Your Instruction and Watch Your Students Thrive! The advent of cloud-stored data that can be entered, changed, and accessed anywhere is a development full of potential for today’s classroom. This book is the all-in-one resource you need to be sure your students reap the fullest rewards from cloud-based developments. Teacher and top ed-blogger Ken Halla explains: • Strategies for leveraging the cloud to create a self-paced, learner-centered classroom • How to take advantage of tech tools to facilitate learning • Real-life case studies and activities to ensure an enjoyable implementation experience. Stay ahead of the curve with Ken Halla’s strategies, which you can implement the next morning. “Halla‘s book, written from practitioner experience, provides practical and simple integration techniques that will assist both novice and experienced teachers incorporate technology to enhance student learning.” –Eric Sheninger, author of Digital Leadership, Changing Paradigms for Changing Times “This is a must read--a detailed nuts and bolts guide to classroom tools in the cloud.” –Michael B. Horn, Co-Founder and Director, Christensen Institute Author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. “Whether you are an ed tech veteran or just getting started, Halla’s book will help you tailor learning to meet the needs of your students. This book will help you create the learner-focused classroom you want to build! A must-have resource for today’s teachers!” –Jaime Casap, Global Education Evangelist Google
Looking Forward Into the Present
Looking Forward Into the Present
- Briefly review the major topics that were covered in this book
- Put the changes necessary in our school system in context with the changing world
- Highlight a school system that has embraced second-order digital learning
This book has shown over and again that our schools need to change. To some degree, most of our schools have changed little from the Prussian model. Generally all six-year-olds can be counted on to be matriculating into first grade. We still largely teach subjects from kindergarten to college in mini, one-room schoolhouses, where subjects are taught in content vacuums with little collaboration or connection to other classes. On one hand, teachers have embraced Professional Learning Communities where content specialists collaborate on lesson ...
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