Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most pressing topics facing our world - including our classrooms - today. Educators and education leaders urgently need to get up to speed and equip themselves to teach students about AI. With this guide, you'll explore a variety of AI technologies that have incredible potential to impact teaching and learning, and discover strategies for designing and implementing AI lessons and projects that empower students as creative communicators, innovative designers and digital citizens.

The guide includes:

• Ethical and instructional considerations to help you carefully examine and evaluate a diverse range of AI resources.
• Guidance on how to connect AI concepts to the curriculum and standards you're already teaching.
• Student-friendly AI tools that can be used to boost creativity and communication.
• Complete AI projects with extension activities ready to roll out in the classroom.
• A look at coming advances in the field of AI, along with guidance for navigating new questions related to AI.

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Audience: Elementary and secondary educators; education leaders

Imagine a world where educators can boost their productivity, task management and overall well-being with the aid of an AI assistant. In this groundbreaking book, an experienced school leader offers practical strategies for leveraging AI to support a more efficient and effective way to work.

The 62 strategies in this book will help leaders - including those with limited technical knowledge - use AI tools to address critical aspects of leadership in education, such as collaborative decision-making, building relationships and trust, personalized professional learning, data analysis and improvement, and parent and community engagement.

Featured examples show how using AI can speed up or eliminate administrative tasks, leaving more time for human interaction. With detailed prompts and instructions on how to write them, the book offers fun, innovative ideas that promote work-life balance and sustainable wellness in leadership roles, with strategies for managing workload and fostering personal growth.

The book:

• Follows a structured format, with each example offering a problem, solution, action steps, acceleration tips and cautions.
  
• Shows how to formulate effective AI prompts that yield accurate and meaningful responses from AI tools.
  
• Addresses safety and ethical considerations, highlighting potential risks, challenges and cautions school leaders need to be aware of when using AI-powered solutions.

Audience: Education leaders and administrators

As AI continues to transform our world, educators have a responsibility to stay current with the changes, and ensure that students have the necessary knowledge and skills to succeed in the future. Written by an educator who is currently teaching on this topic, How to Teach AI shares practical strategies and tools based on what good practice looks like in the classroom right now. Readers will build confidence in integrating AI into their curriculum so they can effectively prepare students for their careers.

Taking a friendly and accessible approach, the book covers a range of topics related to AI, such as machine learning, robotics and natural language processing, and includes examples of how these technologies are being implemented in different industries and their impact on education. The book includes a chapter dedicated to the ethics of AI, addressing issues around bias, intellectual property, student data privacy and more.

The book includes:

• Ideas for using generative AI in the classroom and tips for writing effective prompts.
• Activity ideas across content areas, including computer science, economics, literature, music and more.
• Time-saving ideas for teachers, and study aids for students to explore.
• AI-powered tool recommendations for teachers.
• Questions for reflection in every chapter.

Audience: Elementary and secondary educators and technology coaches

During her doctoral program, Kristen Mattson became frustrated by the negative underpinnings that described the internet as a dangerous place and positioned young people as careless victims or malevolent bullies. Digital citizenship curriculum became the focus of her work and led to the development of her book Digital Citizenship in Action, which focuses on one of the most important aspects of citizenship - being in community with others.

As citizens, we have a responsibility to give back to the community and work toward social justice and equity. Digital citizenship curricula should strive to show students possibilities over problems, opportunities over risks and community successes over personal gain. Digital Citizenship in Action shows educators how to do just that.

In this new, expanded edition, Mattson incorporates the latest research from scholars in media and information literacy, educational technology and digital citizenship. She also extends the coverage to provide guidance for elementary and secondary teachers, and includes updated examples that are relevant to today's most widely used technologies.

The book:

• Includes tips for creating a digital space where students can try something new, grow through mistakes, and learn what it means to be a citizen in different spaces.
• Features Spotlight Stories from teachers engaged with participatory digital citizenship that demonstrate how these ideas play out in actual classrooms.
• Includes a featured activity for elementary students and secondary students in each chapter to help teachers integrate the ideas into their work.
• Provides QR codes linking to additional resources in You Can Do It! sections throughout the book.

Audience: Elementary and secondary educators, curriculum directors and library media specialists

Edtech practitioners need pragmatic and applicable strategies to shape and advance their career paths. Written by four prominent edtech leaders, this book addresses this need, guiding readers in how to build effective leadership skills with strategies that encourage creativity, flexibility and adaptability, so they can respond effectively to evolving challenges. In a field as dynamic as educational technology, such a mindset is crucial to being prepared not just to adapt to the present, but to shape the future.

Bridging the gap between theory and practice, the book addresses core topics such as leadership vision, strategic planning, ethics and performance management, so that both budding and seasoned professionals are well-equipped to navigate the diverse challenges they might face. By focusing on strategies that have the potential to transform learning with technology leadership, this book supports educators and leaders in harnessing technology to lead in the most effective ways, directly benefiting students.

The book will help readers:

• Focus on internal motivation and increase confidence in order to become an effective leader.
• Learn how to establish a positive leadership culture at the staff and district levels.
• Cultivate interpersonal and team-building skills to foster collaborative, harmonious work environments.
• Make informed, ethical decisions as the rapid evolution of technology often outpaces the development of ethical guidelines.
• Build strategic planning and performance management skills to prepare to move into top education technology leadership positions.
• Map out a plan to support a school system's vision, and influence others to buy into and support that vision.

Audience: Leaders and aspiring leaders seeking higher-level education technology leadership positions, including educators, education leaders and coaches.

Learning with technology doesn't happen because a specific tool revolutionizes education. It happens when proven teaching strategies intersect with technology tools, and yet it's not uncommon for teachers to use a tool because it's fun or because the developer promises it will help students learn.

This book includes:

• An introduction to the Triple E Framework that helps teachers engage students in time-on-task learning, enhance learning experiences beyond traditional means and extend learning opportunities to bridge classroom learning with students' everyday lives.
• Effective strategies for using technology to create authentic learning experiences for their students.
• Case studies to guide appropriate tech integration.
• A lesson planning template to show teachers how to effectively frame technology choices and apply them in instruction.

Digital literacy describes skills and ways of thinking related to the use of technology, including the technical competence to communicate, evaluate and interpret digital information, navigate websites and understand why all these skills are important.

All students need these skills to be responsible participants in school and society. However, teaching digital literacy can be challenging for teachers who have many other content standards they must address. In this book, two innovative educators demonstrate how to weave digital literacy skills throughout instruction in small ways, with simple strategies to discuss, model, mentor, build a learning culture and create digital experiences to improve students' digital literacy skills and habits.

The book:

• Defines the fundamental elements of digital literacy and why they are important for students to understand.
• Offers teaching strategies for integrating digital literacy into lessons across a range of content areas.
• Provides case studies of classroom teachers using mini-strategies to improve students' digital literacy skills and habits.
• Includes resources for teachers to use as they develop digital literacy strategies.

Audience: Elementary and secondary teachers; instructional coaches; technology leaders; and school library media specialists

Teachers possess unique skills, knowledge and experience. So why should their approaches to classroom technology look the same? In this new edition of the popular book Integrating Technology in the Classroom, author Boni Hamilton presents technology tools and projects that resonate with your teaching style, classroom context and technology skill level all while helping students achieve academic growth.

In this new edition, you'll find:

• Coverage of programming, game creation, and augmented and virtual reality.
• Stories of teachers who have successfully employed technology in the classroom, with more examples from secondary-level teachers, including visual learning preferences and kinesthetic/tactile learning.
• Deeper explanation of how to leverage technology to meet multilingual needs.
• A new chapter on leveraging technology to meet adaptive needs, including examples from teachers who use adaptive technologies in regular classrooms.
• Strategies that address efficiency needs of teachers, to help make administrative tasks less onerous, and coverage of learning management systems, formative assessment sites, and planning tools.
• Professional development coverage that includes information on ISTE offerings, social media, and other supports.

Many educators say they spend much of the school day tackling one problem after another, making them feel like they're constantly putting out fires. This book will help educators solve problems using the author's Putting Out Fires Framework, which demonstrates how sorting possible solutions - into Extinguish, Detect, Contain and Prevent categories - can help teachers and administrators think through the impact of various solutions and make a more informed decision before implementing a solution.

In this interactive book, readers will apply a design thinking process to identify a problem, consider the people involved and analyze possible solutions. Each chapter features two example problems related to edtech - one for classroom teachers and one for administrators - to illustrate how to apply the framework for effective problem-solving. In the process of working through the book, you'll discover how selecting the best solution is dependent on several variables, including impact, outcome and the people involved.

This book:

• Introduces a unique problem-solving framework to help educators address challenges in an effective and efficient way.
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  Provides educators with practical tools for solving problems to create an environment that meets the needs of all students - from general education classrooms to secure schools.
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  Offers a highly interactive approach, with a workbook component in each chapter that readers can complete to learn how to address a range of problems.

AUDIENCE
Elementary and secondary teachers, instructional coaches and school leaders

Join a librarian and an education leader as they team up once more to explore the librarian's role as a leader who works collaboratively to build relationships, mold culture and advocate for the needs of students and the community. Authors Shannon McClintock Miller and William Bass discuss the benefits of bringing the outside world into the library through tools that allow librarians to partner with others. Then, they expand upon these connections by addressing how librarians can lead in the greater education community by sharing resources and strategies, and partnering with school leaders to tell the story of the school community.

The new edition includes two brand-new chapters. The first reflects on the experiences of librarians during the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing stories of how library programs supported students and teachers during shutdowns and virtual learning. The authors propose that these strategies can serve as foundational practices for libraries, and provide an opportunity to reflect on what library programs can offer. Another new chapter is dedicated to expanding the definition of literacy, with topics such as media and information literacy, and the importance of critical thinking and research as essential skills for students.

This revised edition:

• Highlights the potential of librarians to empower their students, their schools and their communities, and be learning leaders in the digital age.
• Includes stories of partnerships - from librarians and administrators - illustrating how they can collaborate to create change by harnessing the influence of the school library program to enhance the educational experience.
• Explores how librarians serve as mentors to their students, delving into many topics that define digital age literacy, including the librarian's role in reading advocacy and digital citizenship.
• Draws connections to the ISTE Standards, including the Student, Educator and Education Leader sections, in each chapter.

Audience: Elementary and secondary school librarians/media specialists; education leaders

With artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), blockchain, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the metaverse and Web3 being used in the world of work and education, students need opportunities to learn about, explore and create with emerging technologies. At the same time, educators need the right resources to stay current with the changes, and be able to provide the guidance students need to develop the skills that are essential today - and are likely to be in demand for the jobs of the future.

Based on a course developed by the author, this book explores how to create impactful learning experiences so that students can apply their knowledge to real-world problems, collaborate with peers from around the world and develop critical thinking skills, while expanding their understanding of the world and their place in it.

The book:

• Includes examples and activities to help educators who might feel overwhelmed by new technologies embrace these topics and bring new learning opportunities into their classes.
• Features vignettes from educators who have implemented some of the tools and practices shared in the book, highlighting their challenges, risks taken, failures experienced and the overall impact on learning.
• Offers a model in course creation by breaking down the author's thought process in developing a course on emerging technology and her preparation for teaching it.

Audience: Elementary and secondary educators and technology coaches

Instead of drill-and-practice apps and worksheets, what if technology enabled exploration of math concepts? Instead of screens for disconnected individual learning, what if technology fostered mathematical discourse and collaboration? Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching mathematics, what if we used technology to differentiate to meet students' diverse needs?

Technology has the power and potential to support the teaching and learning of math content at all grade levels, but the presence of technology is insufficient unless it's paired with effective teaching practices and meaningful content. This book poses and unpacks the above questions and many more, with examples that illustrate how to integrate technology in the K-5 math classroom, highlighting opportunities to transform mathematics teaching through strategic technology use.

The book:

• Illustrates two contrasting examples in each chapter, including transcripts of sample class conversations, mathematical tasks, illustrations of student work and reflection and discussion prompts.
• Features discussion of research-based ideas relating to the contrasts presented in the chapters, encouraging readers to connect what they learn from the specific cases with the research on these topics.
• Covers a variety of mathematics content areas such as functions and algebraic thinking, geometry and measurement, and data and statistics.
• Provides strategies for implementing the concepts in class, with ideas and examples of tools based not on how they look but what they can do in your mathematics teaching.

Audience: K-5 educators

School districts often struggle to develop consistent practices for meeting the needs of special education students. In the updated edition of this bestselling book, you'll learn how embracing student-centered approaches like project-based learning and growth mindset help support students with disabilities. You'll get guidance on how to plan and execute education experiences using technology centered around students' individual needs. And you'll discover how to effectively and consistently evaluate and select technology supports based on the specific needs of an individual student, while actively including the learner in the technology consideration process.

Building on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, this edition also explores ways to support students, especially learners with disabilities, through distance learning, and how adopting personalized learning principles can help facilitate a smooth transition to distance learning.

This revised edition:

• Includes new content on the necessity and long-term benefits of making educational materials accessible.
• Offers guidance on expanding practices that are already inclusive, such as increasing the flexibility of learning spaces and establishing gaming and maker clubs.
• Explains how to conduct and document assessments to help an educational team make informed decisions about technology needs.
• Assists individuals or teams in creating an action plan for developing a culture of inclusion.
• Interweaves stories, songs and other features to make learning fun!

Audience: Elementary and secondary educators; education coaches and administrators

The U.S. National Park Service describes its parks as America's largest classrooms, and for years, its rangers have been developing educational approaches that invite visitors to engage with their surroundings in active, participatory ways. This book shows classroom teachers how they can use these same methods, as well as a vast array of national park resources, to address common instructional challenges and boost student engagement and retention, integrate equity, improve college and career readiness, and more.

This book introduces the National Park Classroom (NPC) Framework, which enables teachers of all subject areas and grade levels to take advantage of national park resources and educational practices. Park rangers draw on pedagogies such as project-based learning, inquiry-based learning and culturally responsive teaching in their lessons, and the book shows how the NPC Framework can help classroom educators use those same approaches to design engaging units and projects for subjects like math, science and language arts. These lessons are anchored in the ISTE Standards and incorporate content standards such as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

The book:

• Highlights resources available to teachers and their students through the U.S. National Park System and other public land agencies across the globe.
• Provides insights and tools for leading high-quality project-based learning.
• Offers guidance for transitioning from a teacher-centered classroom to a learner-centered classroom.
• Shows how to apply successful equity and inclusion practices from the national parks in classrooms and schools.
• Provides examples of place-conscious learning, with strategies for connecting students to distant parks and other places.

Audience: Elementary and secondary teachers and administrators

Just in time, this is a pedagogical and practical guide for any educator ready to take learning to a new level. -- Seth Godin

Learn how to embrace the power of digital storytelling with your students, and reframe the learning process as one based on curiosity, purpose and joy.

Storytelling enables us to make sense of the world and bring order to our thinking. Now more than ever, students are hungry for authentic learning experiences that offer opportunities to make an impact beyond the classroom. With practical advice and examples of how to plan, create, publish and assess student stories, this book offers a fresh approach to digital storytelling. And it includes evidence-based, classroom-tested guidance on how to provide students with the tools and structure they need to develop a mindset of curiosity, agency and purpose.

Establishing digital storytelling as a framework for learning rather than a separate add-on project or a way to record work being done in other subject areas, the book covers various types of digital storytelling -- from infographics and social media posts to podcasts and video documentaries -- and demonstrates how to choose the best ways to incorporate digital storytelling into curricula.

Student examples and teacher case studies provide inspiration on how to integrate the practice into classrooms of all grade levels and subject areas.

The book:

• Shows how to create uncheatable assessments through student-created story projects
• Helps educators create meaningful learning experiences by integrating edtech tools and storytelling into their curriculum.
• Shows how storytelling can help students activate higher-level thinking to conduct research, process ideas and information, and share the synthesis of these ideas with an audience.
• Illustrates how digital storytelling can help develop a mindset of collaboration, mental agility and resilience.
• Presents student examples, teacher case studies and sample lessons to demonstrate how to integrate student stories into curriculum in authentic ways.
• Offers flexibility, through sample projects that vary in degree of difficulty, so teachers can choose the best option based on their resources and unique situation.

Technology coordinators and facilitators must be able to navigate the complexities of a school community's technology needs and serve a variety of individuals, including students, teachers and administrators. With its detailed, practical approach, The Technology Coordinator's Handbook has established the standard in clarifying the wide variety of tasks and responsibilities faced by those in this critical role. Readers will learn how to be more effective learners and leaders so they can better assist students and teachers in managing technology use and dealing with technology challenges. The book also offers strategies for education leaders to successfully integrate technology into school and district operations.

This expanded edition includes two brand-new chapters covering online and blended learning, and the future of the technology coordinator role. Additionally, the authors follow up with educators featured in the previous addition, who offer insights and discuss how the position has evolved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors have also assembled a broad range of teachers, administrators and technology coordinators from around the country to offer guidance for those in this role.

This new edition also includes:

• Helpful hints and toolbox tips from featured educators around the United States.
• Updates to each chapter's essential questions and associated answers to help readers fully understand an issue and find the best solution to a problem.
• A professional development focus topic for each chapter, sourced from the edtech professionals featured in the book.
• Digital components including templates, checklists, editable forms, technology leader job descriptions and more.

Audience: Technology coordinators and coaches; teacher educators; and elementary and secondary school leaders

The current news landscape is driven by clicks, with every social media influencer, trained and citizen journalists chasing the same goal: a viral story. In this environment, where the race to be first on the scene with the most sensational story often overshadows the need for accuracy, traditional strategies for determining information credibility are no longer enough. Rather than simply helping students become savvy information consumers, today's educators must provide learners with the skills to be digital detectives - information interrogators who are armed with a variety of tools for dissecting news stories and determining what's real and what isn't in our post-truth world.

This book:

• Shares meaningful lessons that move beyond traditional fake news protocols to help learners navigate a world in which information can be both a force for good and a tool used to influence and manipulate.
• Includes resources and examples to support educators in the work of facilitating engaging, relevant (and fun!) instructional opportunities for K-12 learners, in both face-to-face and digital learning environments.
• Unpacks the connection between social-emotional learning and information literacy.
• Includes access to the Digital Detective's Evidence Locker, an online collection of over 100 downloadable and remixable resources to support the lessons in the book.

Audience: K-12 educators and library media specialists

It started with a simple observation: Students need their teachers present to answer questions or to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they don't need their teachers present to listen to a lecture or review content. From there, Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams began the flipped classroom. Students watched recorded lectures for homework and completed their assignments, labs and tests in class with their teacher available. What they found was that their students demonstrated a deeper understanding of the material than ever before. This is the authors' story, updated and expanded, to ensure it's as relevant to your classroom as ever.

The revised edition includes:

• New case studies illustrating flipped learning applied by an individual teacher and across a school district.
• A new appendix focused on best practices for creating videos for your classes.
• Educator examples that demonstrate the ISTE Standards in action.
  
• Updates to tools, terms and resources to reflect the current learning landscape.

Audience: Elementary and secondary classroom teachers

The advent of the 24-hour news cycle, citizen journalism and an increased reliance on social media as a trusted news source have had a profound effect not only on how we get our news, but also on how we evaluate sources of information, share that information and interact with others in online communities. When these issues are coupled with the fake news industry that intentionally spreads false stories designed to go viral, educators are left facing a new and challenging landscape. This book will help them address these new realities, providing strategies and support to help students develop the skills needed to effectively evaluate information they encounter online.

The book includes:

• Instructional strategies for combating fake news, including models for evaluating news stories with links to resources on how to include lessons on fake news in your curricula.
• Examples from prominent educators who demonstrate how to tackle fake news with students and colleagues.
• A fake news self-assessment with a digital component to help readers evaluate their skills in detecting and managing fake news.
• A downloadable infographic with mobile media literacy tips.

Audience: K-12 educators

The modern school library supports education in a variety of ways. One essential role librarians play is that of a leader who works collaboratively to build relationships, mold culture and climate, and advocate for the needs of students and the community.

In this book, a librarian and an education leader team up to reflect on the librarian's ability to build connections in two ways. First, they discuss the benefits of bringing the outside world into the library through the use of social media, videoconferencing and other tools that allow librarians to partner with others. Then they expand upon these connections by addressing how librarians can lead in the greater educational community by sharing resources and strategies, and partnering with school leaders to tell the story of the school community.

This book will:

• Highlight the potential of librarians to empower their students, their schools and their communities, and be learning leaders in the digital age.
• Include stories of partnerships - from librarians and administrators - illustrating how they can collaborate to create change by harnessing the influence of the school library program to enhance the educational experience.
• Explore how librarians serve as mentors to their students, delving into many topics that define digital age literacy, including the librarian's role in reading advocacy, information validity, digital citizenship and research.
• Make direct connections to the ISTE Standards for Students, Educators and Education Leaders in each chapter.

Audience: K-12 school librarians/media specialists, education leaders