Connecting to the Past, Building the Future (25-Pack)

$274.99

This guide offers fun, practical resources and strategies to help teachers use edtech to enrich history and civics curricula, and build community inside and outside the classroom.

History and social studies educators are uniquely positioned to empower, inspire and motivate students to become engaged citizens who contribute to their communities. When students see themselves in history, they can recognize their importance in the world today. In this guide, two award-winning teachers show how to use edtech to help students engage more fully with history, then apply their learning in ways that promote civics and citizenship on a local, national and global level.

The guide features:

Four easy tips for getting started with edtech.
A short list of widely used edtech apps and tools that are easy to learn and implement.
An introduction to historical empathy, and edtech tools that can help cultivate it in students.
Resources and techniques for building civic awareness in students.
Activities to build community in and out of classrooms.
#TryOneNewThingChallenge ideas that can easily be implemented for lasting impact on classrooms.

Edtech can offer an amazing range of possibilities – such as immersive experiences, interactive online activities and virtual field trips – and this guide explains how well-chosen edtech can expand lessons in a meaningful way so that they come alive for students.

(ISTE Jump Start Guide, 8.5" x 11", 3 laminated panels, 6 pages, 25-pack)

Connecting to the Past, Building the Future (25-Pack)

Project-Based Learning (25-Pack)

$274.99

This concise guide shows you how to apply a PBL approach in your curriculum, with a focus on high-quality, real-world projects and robust use of digital tools.

Based on the best-selling book Reinventing Project-Based Learning by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss, this six-page laminated reference guide shows teachers how to design authentic projects that make the most of available and emerging technologies.

The guide includes:

An overview of project-based learning so you can quickly get up to speed with this effective pedagogical approach.
A concise breakdown of the key steps in the project-based learning process, including planning, design, assessment and reflection.
Example prompts for defining the framework of a project, and strategies and ideas for getting a project off the ground.
Recommendations for tools that align with each step of the process.

(ISTE Jump Start Guide, 8.5" x 11", 3 laminated panels, 6 pages, 25-pack bundle)

Infusing Technology in the 6-12 Classroom

$34.99

6-12 teachers will discover how to integrate the tech requirements found within today’s academic standards into their everyday curriculum.

Perhaps your district provides current technology development for staff on a regular basis and has instructional coaches to help teachers infuse technology into their curriculum to meet various academic standards. But in reality, most districts don’t have this kind of support. In this book (the second in a two-book series), you’ll learn how to shift your instructional practice and leverage technology to meet today’s curriculum education standards for grades 6-12. This book doesn’t cover every 6-12 national standard, but identifies the standards with a technology component and provides resources and lessons to help you teach those standards effectively.

This book includes:

Classroom-tested lesson ideas in English language arts, math, science and social studies mapped to ISTE and tech-related standards to support college- and career-readiness.
Lists of technology-embedded college- and career-readiness standards for each grade level, along with practical ideas and up-to-date resources (apps, software and websites) that can be used in meeting these standards.
Suggestions for addressing roadblocks to incorporating technology in the classroom.
Ways to incorporate staff development and parental support at the school level.
Access to a companion website with information on the tools referenced in the text.

With the implementation of these strategies, you’ll help your students become self-directed and critical readers, writers and thinkers so they’re better prepared for the future!

Audience: 6-12 educators, curriculum specialists, tech coordinators

Infusing Technology in the 6-12 Classroom

Fighting Fake News (25-Pack)

$274.99

This 6-page guide offers educators resources and strategies to define, detect and combat “fake news,” including links to fact-checking sites and lesson plans.

Based on the bestselling book Fact vs. Fiction by Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins, Fighting Fake News offers:

Models for evaluating news stories.
Links to resources on how to include lessons on fake news in curricula.
Links to fake news self-assessments, including a digital component to help readers evaluate their skills in detecting and managing fake news.
An infographic with mobile media literacy tips.

(ISTE Jump Start Guide, 8.5" x 11", 3 laminated panels, 6 pages, 25-pack bundle)

Environmental Science for Grades 6-12

$34.99

Apply high-quality project-based learning strategies to create lessons and units that help students solve a variety of urgent environmental problems.

Environmental science (ES) education is essential to preparing today’s students for the future. We must create opportunities for hands-on investigations that explore complex environmental problems in order to find solutions and meet the challenges of our changing world. Educators looking to bring ES-focused experiences to their students can turn to technology and social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies to connect students with real-world situations and citizen science opportunities, while fostering empathy and a love for the natural world.

Project-based learning (PBL), with its emphasis on inquiry and authentic challenges, can be an effective approach to teaching ES. Those new to PBL may not feel they have adequate training. Likewise, teachers who haven’t taught ES may question how to incorporate it into their curriculum. This book addresses both situations, providing practical guidance for teachers, along with examples of technology-rich, learner-centered student projects addressing timely topics such as sustainability, human impact and climate change.

This book:

Helps teachers design learning experiences that model authentic problems and processes practiced by scientists and engineers, to prepare students for future careers in science.
Addresses diversity, equity and inclusion in ES, and shares resources and strategies for addressing racial equity in ES.
Introduces facilitation techniques that redefine the teacher’s traditional role as one that supports increased student agency, the development of critical thinking skills and an expanded awareness of their place in the global community.
Includes a chapter that focuses on applying the principles and strategies shared in the book in an online learning environment.
Addresses Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) topics in environmental science and is aligned to the ISTE Standards for Educators.

PBL is one of the best ways for students to explore complex processes and concepts, and this book will help teachers leverage this approach to empower students to take action toward a better future and world.

Audience: 6-12 science educators, instructional coaches, preservice teachers

Awesome Sauce

$29.99

Playful book by award-winning educator Josh Stock shows teachers how to make simple videos to improve student learning and classroom culture, and connect with parents.

The ability to use video to communicate has become a basic element of literacy – inside and outside the classroom. This fun-to-read book shows educators how to make simple videos that explain assignments, welcome students to new schools and grades, differentiate lessons for a range of learning levels and more. The book also helps teachers use video to address common issues like enhancing classroom culture and managing parent communication.

Structured like a cookbook, Awesome Sauce discusses both the “why” and the “how” behind the strategies. Each section begins with the story of why Stock uses the strategy, demonstrating what teachers will get out of trying it with their students. These explanations are followed by “how-to” recipes that guide readers in creating the “awesome sauce” their videos will become.

The book:

Provides practical ways to create videos for the classroom to boost learning outcomes.
Offers a creative and fresh approach to PD with manageable layout and friendly, accessible voice.
Offers an accessible solution for all classroom teachers, regardless of tech skills, including basic setups that yield great results.

For the author, it comes down to this: “I want to be the best teacher possible and using these recipes gives me the chance to make the biggest impact possible on the rock star students in my classroom.”

Audience: K-12 teachers and tech coaches

Esports in Schools (25-Pack)

$274.99

This guide will help you get started in the world of school esports, offering the strategies and tools you need to build a successful program for your school and students.

What defines esports? Why build an esports program for your school? What technology do you need to get started? This guide addresses these questions and more, offering tips for setting up an effective program while helping students succeed academically and socially.

The guide includes:

Strategies for getting buy-in from the community, including administrators, faculty, parents and students.
Examples aligned to the ISTE Standards for Educators.
An overview of the technology needs for a successful program.
Ideas for creating effective virtual and physical spaces.
Tips for fostering inclusivity and building community.

Students who feel safe and connected to their school communities often perform better academically, are absent less and are more likely to find mentors and follow career paths. Games and esports can be a lifeline for students who need one most, and this guide shows how building community through an esports program can help students thrive.

(ISTE Jump Start Guide, 8.5" x 11", 3 laminated panels, 6 pages, 25-pack bundle)

Integrating Technology in the Classroom

$38.99

Discover new and immediately applicable tools and practices to support collaborative, student-centered learning.

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.

Explore how technology tools can support your instructional goals and help you meet the individual needs of all learners.

Audience: K-12 classroom teachers; teacher educators; tech coaches and coordinators

Distance Learning for Elementary STEM

$34.99

This practical guide outlines a vision for online and distance STEM learning at the elementary level, with creative activities based on eight STEM themes.

Online and distance learning may sound fairly straightforward. Instead of learning in a classroom setting, students learn at home with the assistance of online resources. But classroom learning does not always translate easily to online settings, particularly at the elementary level where children should be actively engaging in activities, exploration and discussion.

From designing a zoo, to learning to garden, to exploring the night sky, you’ll find eight STEM lessons that are creative, hands-on and engaging for elementary learners. Written for teachers and parents, the book unpacks STEM integration across multiple subjects, with connections to the ISTE Standards. The book also includes play-based lessons for young learners, and ideas for innovative design challenges.

Each of the eight lessons includes:

An overview of materials, resources, time and supervision needed.
Suggested resources to explore, such as simulations and virtual field trips.
Supplementary learning materials such as questions and quizzes.
Ideas for games and reinforcement.
Hands-on activities and engineering design challenges.
Connections to various content areas as well as children’s books, movies and art to keep the learning going after the lesson is completed.

Concluding with a model for designing online and distance STEM learning for elementary-aged children, this book will support teachers and parents in designing the types of resources and learning experiences they need for elementary students’ distance learning.

Audience: K-5 teachers and parents

Engage, Enhance, Extend (25-Pack)

$275.00

Based on the best-selling book Learning First, Technology Second, by Liz Kolb, this laminated reference guide will help teachers move from arbitrary uses of technology in their classrooms to thoughtful ways of adding value to student learning.

The guide includes:

An overview of the Triple E Framework, which 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.
Take-away strategies for each component of the Framework
Examples of technology tools with built-in characteristics of each component
The Triple E Measurement Tool to help evaluate integration of the Framework
A guide to alignment of the Framework to the ISTE Standards for Students

(ISTE Jump Start Guide, 8.5" x 11", 3 laminated panels, 6 pages, 25-pack bundle)

Audience: K-12 educators

Deepening Digital Citizenship

$39.99

Get strategies for building the capacity to develop and deliver professional learning to support a systemwide digital citizenship program implementation.

How can education leaders provide comprehensive support to implement key digital citizenship practices? Are we creating one-size-fits-all digital citizenship curriculum? How can we bring together partners from diverse backgrounds and abilities to expand the meaning of digital citizenship? This book addresses all these questions and more, showing educators of all levels how to implement digital citizenship in an inclusive and equitable manner.

The book includes:

An overview of organizational approaches to examining digital citizenship on a system level.
Ideas for developing policy that is inclusive of all stakeholders.
Case studies that demonstrate ways of working with various populations, including youth in care, refugees and individuals with autism and ADHD.
Strategies for practicing digital citizenship across a range of ages, abilities and backgrounds.

The book also discusses accessibility in technology and teaching, and offers information about assistive and adaptive technology and how it relates to digital citizenship.

Audience: Education leaders; classroom teachers

Journal of Research on Technology in Education

$39.99

This special issue of the Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE) focuses on students' experiences with online learning during COVID-19.

COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on educational systems in both K-12 and higher education settings, significantly changing the way students engage and learn. This issue of the JRTE also explores instructors’ ability to adapt to engage their students online, and parental and family involvement in student learning.

Podcasting for Students

$12.99

In this engaging and accessible guide, author Michele Haiken shares tips, tools and examples to get your students up and running with podcasting.

Podcasts come in a variety of formats covering a wide range of content areas. For example, informational podcasts can take the form of investigative journalism, interviews and storytelling, and can provide ways to explore problems and solutions, and cause and effect. The more students have access to high-quality podcast models, the more they’re able to think about how they want to structure their podcasts and engage their listeners.

With this in mind and informed by her book New Realms for Writing, Michele Haiken introduces teachers to the topic of podcasting, showing how to help students create informative and engaging works through this popular medium.

The guide includes:

Five reasons to use podcasts in the classroom.
Tips for planning a podcast.
Ideas for using a “podcaster checklist” to help organize a project.
Suggestions for selecting podcasting tools and equipment.
Sample podcast assignments from teachers around the world.
QR codes for easy access to resources and examples.

This fun and informative guide offers the tools you need to get your students started in the exciting world of podcasting.

(ISTE Jump Start Guide, 8.5" x 11", three laminated panels, six pages)

Audience: K-12 educators

Stretch Yourself

$29.99

Two award-winning young educators from opposite sides of the globe share their insights to guide teachers on how to take risks and innovate in their daily practice.

Stretch Yourself: A Personalized Journey to Deepen Your Teaching Practice is chock-full of tools and strategies to show teachers, especially those new to the profession, how to stretch and innovate in their teaching. Using the metaphor of yoga--with its focus on process and practice--the authors take teachers on a journey of self-reflection and assessment, leading them through three stages: Breathe, Stretch and Meditate.

The book covers such topics as developing a sense of self-awareness to achieve excellence and the importance of maintaining balance and persevering in your practice.

This book features:

The unique look and feel of a journal, with space to write and reflect on ideas as you read.
A self-assessment quiz so you can evaluate your mindset in terms of technology use and innovation.
Ideas for using tools available in your “edtech toolbox” to improve your teaching practice.
Highlights of teachers’ and students’ voices through project examples so you can learn from various perspectives.
Practical activities aligned to ISTE Standards for Educators and the ISTE Standards for Students.

As the authors state, “Only through interacting with content, making mistakes and trying new things can we truly become aware of what there is to learn.”

Audience: K-12 educators

Immerse Yourself (25-Pack)

$274.99

Learn how to leverage immersive technology — AR, VR and MR — with this practical and accessible guide.

Based on the bestselling book Learning Transported by Jaime Donally, this laminated reference guide provides practical insights and examples to help any classroom teacher incorporate immersive tech into curriculum.

The guide includes:

Definitions and examples of augmented, virtual and mixed reality.
Comparison of devices and platforms, and tips for selecting the best one.
Lesson ideas for using immersive technology tools in the classroom.
An overview of how immersive technology can help build skills associated with the ISTE Standards for Students.

(ISTE Jump Start Guide, 8.5" x 11", 3 laminated panels, 6 pages, 25-pack bundle)

Engaging Young Readers

$29.99

This book features practical reading strategies for elementary students, with a focus on how technology can be used to improve the skills of a wide range of readers.

Educators must be able to engage with readers at every level. They must also be able to evaluate where each student lies on the continuum and improve students’ skills to bring them to the appropriate level. Engaging Young Readers is a beginner-level guide focusing on developmental reading strategies for elementary students at all stages, with guidance on how to use technology to improve the skills of beginning readers, struggling readers, reluctant readers, enriched readers and English Language Learners (ELLs).

Topics covered include:

Using music as an instructional tool
Choral reading and read alouds
Graphic organizers
Dramatic learning and literature circles
Writing workshops
And much more!

This book gives teachers the strategies and technology they need to meet their students where they are in their reading ability so they can move forward in their personalized skill development.

Audience: K-5 educators

Flipped Learning

$22.99

Flipped classroom pioneers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams take their revolutionary educational philosophy to the next level in Flipped Learning.

Building on the energy of the thousands of educators inspired by the influential book Flip Your Classroom, this installment is all about what happens next — when a classroom is truly student-centered and teachers are free to engage with students on an individual level.

Flipping, combined with practical project-based learning pedagogy, changes everything. Loaded with powerful stories from teachers across curriculum and grade levels as well as technology coordinators and professional learning specialists who share how they were able to go deeper into content, Flipped Learning will once again turn your expectations upside-down and fuel your excitement for teaching and learning.

These stories share how to apply flipped learning techniques to:

Go deeper into content
Let students’ curiosity take learning further
Help students develop positive relationships

Audience: K-12 classroom teachers

Transform Your K-5 Math Class

$34.99

Through detailed lessons and examples, discover how to integrate technology in K-5 math to amplify and enhance your mathematics teaching and drive student learning.

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.

Today’s technology offers more possibilities than ever for supporting students in mathematics. This book draws upon the latest research in technology and math education, while providing tools to incorporate effective strategies into curriculum right away.

Audience: K-5 educators

The EdTech Advocate's Guide to Leading Change in Schools

$25.99

New and emerging tech coaches and technology leaders will get guidance in making decisions and taking the right steps to effectively manage change in a shifting education landscape.

The education field is in the midst of a complete digital transformation. Accordingly, tech coaches and other school leaders must shift from simply bringing technology into schools to identifying how the various elements of this changing landscape fit together to form an improved version of education.

These changes affect everyone in the school, and as entire school communities are impacted, informed individuals who can guide the transformation are needed. The problem is that there are not nearly enough certified tech coaches in schools, and those who are in place are not always adequately prepared to handle this new mission.

This book aims to address these issues by offering:

Advice on planning and guiding change in digital age schools.
Examples of digital age schools and advice from “change agents” in the field.
Activities, action plans, templates, checklists and other planning tools to help tech coaches and other leaders put what they learn into action.

This book helps tech coaches and school technology leaders embrace their roles and guides them as they make important decisions and take meaningful steps to effectively participate in this education transformation.

Audience: Technology coaches, technology directors, educators

The EdTech Advocate's Guide to Leading Change in Schools

Mobile Learning Mindset

$19.99

Mobile Learning Mindset: The District Leader’s Guide to Implementation offers lessons learned and examples to help education leaders successfully implement a mobile device initiative in their school or district.

The six-book Mobile Learning Mindset series shares practical knowledge and strategies for successful implementation of K-12 BYOD programs and 1:1 initiatives. The collection provides district leaders, principals, teachers, IT staff, educational coaches and parents with the information they need to make any mobile learning program a success.

Tools and activities throughout this book will help district leaders:

Effectively model technology use.
Identify stakeholders and cultivate buy-in.
Build a culture of creativity and shared ownership.
Evaluate and adjust a mobile device program.

With this book, you’ll gain a better understanding of the effect that mobile learning can have on your staff, students and community and get guidance on modeling, risk-taking, building a culture of creativity and shared ownership, and leading the various components of a mobile device initiative.

Audience: School/district leaders

Flipped Learning for English Instruction

$14.99

From the authors of the bestselling Flip Your Classroom, this book shows educators how to successfully apply the flipped classroom model in English classrooms.

Following up on their landmark book, flipped education innovators Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams return with a book series that supports flipped learning in the four topic areas of science, math, English and social studies, as well as the elementary classroom. This book is a practical guide for English teachers interested in flipping their classrooms.

Each chapter offers practical guidance on:

How to approach lesson planning
What to do with class time
How to employ project-based learning techniques

Flipped Learning for English Instruction helps English teachers deal with the realities of teaching in an increasingly interconnected and digital world. This book serves as a guide for English teachers who are beginning to flip their classes, or are interested in exploring the flipped model for the first time.

Audience: K-12 language arts teachers

The Maker Playbook

$34.99

For School Leaders and K-12 Educators

Get concrete strategies for designing and implementing cultural and instructional supports for maker learning, and equipping makerspaces to model universal design for learning (UDL) in action.

School leaders and classroom teachers alike are looking for ways to integrate maker learning into their work in meaningful ways, but they simply don’t have the time, capacity or resources to review, synthesize or adapt existing models into their own school systems. The Maker Playbook offers a vision and the tools needed to streamline the process, including high-impact strategies you can put directly into action to foster an inclusive maker learning environment.

In these pages, you’ll find ready-to-use strategies and resources to guide learners in the design thinking maker learning process. With the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines as a basis, you’ll get ideas for helping all students learn, and guidance for developing the scaffolding to help all learners reach levels of higher-order thinking and engagement.

The book:

Offers strategies that can be implemented on a personalized and systemic level to build a maker learning culture and program from the ground up.
Highlights “Go Remote” tips with each strategy to assist you in implementing the ideas in a virtual environment.
Includes recommendations for prioritizing and choosing from the strategies provided to help with planning and implementation.
Offers resources for engagement, representation, action and expression to improve accessibility and boost students’ executive functioning skills.
Includes QR codes and links to digital versions and templates for scaffolding learning to help you jump into action.

Whether your school system has begun this journey and is looking for ways to enhance established maker learning and makerspaces or is ready to start laying the foundation for providing maker learning experiences for all learners, this book is designed to help educators make maker learning more accessible for all.

Audience: K-12 educators and school leaders

Inclusive Learning 365

$39.99

Designed to be read one day – and page – at a time, this book from four inclusive learning experts offers 365 strategies for implementing technology to design inclusive experiences.

Educators across the world are working to design individualized instruction that empowers every student to become experts at learning. Technology and instructional interventions designed to support students with disabilities often eventually become mainstream and used by the masses. These practices provide a pathway for designing inclusive, equitable and accessible educational experiences that meet the needs of every individual learner.

This engaging book includes daily strategies accompanied by examples of tools that can be implemented immediately to design meaningful instruction. Topics covered include role-playing games for social-emotional learning, building literacy through captioned video, coding to teach early literacy, text-to-speech for math and reading, and much more!

Each daily strategy includes:

Explanation of how to use the strategy to design inclusive educational experiences.
Examples of tools that can be used to implement the strategy.
Alternative ways to use the strategy to extend student learning.
Images illustrating the strategy or tool.
Identification of relevant ISTE Standards for Educators and ISTE Standards for Students.
Related resources.

The heart of the book is the shift in mindset that occurs by exploring a different practical, inclusive strategy each day and infusing these strategies into everyday practice.

Audience: K-12 educators, special educators, administrators

Coding and the Arts

$38.99

Unlock your students’ creative potential by exploring the intersections between CS and art across various types of artistic media, including drawing, animation, music and physically interactive art.

While there are books that discuss the intersection of the arts and computer science (CS), there are none written for K-12 teachers that cover the content overlaps between CS and the arts beyond a single programming environment, and that feature approaches and examples of practicing artists. Coding and the Arts fills that gap.

CS sometimes gets a bad rap as dry, isolated and uninteresting work — the pursuit of analytically minded techies working alone. In reality, programming is deeply creative and enables artists of all types to discover new ways to express themselves. In this book, you’ll explore how to apply computation to stretch the possibilities in many art forms, as well as how to pave the way for entirely new ones. By approaching programming tools as artistic media, you’ll connect the dots between programming, creativity and artistic expression. Along the way, you’ll learn from a diverse set of computational artists and teachers who are using technology to push the bounds of traditional artistic media.

Chapters include:

Spotlights of working artists and educators who are integrating computing into their art.
Deep dives into artistic programming environments, exploring their unique benefits, constraints and impact on classroom use.
Alignment to the four pillars of computational thinking to help you create richer learning experiences for students.
Lesson sketches aligned with CS concepts and the ISTE Computational Thinking Competencies.

The book also offers strategies for supporting students in developing as computational artists, including the attitudes and practices that will help them as artists and computer scientists.

Audience: K-12 educators

Teaching AI

$35.99

Get the tools, resources and insights you need to explore artificial intelligence in the classroom and explore what students need to know about living in a world with AI.

For many, artificial intelligence, or AI, may seem like science fiction, or inherently overwhelming. The reality is that AI is already being applied in industry and, for many of us, in our daily lives as well. A better understanding of AI can help you make informed decisions in the classroom that will impact the future of your students.

Drawing from a broad variety of expert voices from countries including Australia, Japan, and South Africa, as well as educators from around the world and underrepresented student voices, this book explores some of the ways AI can improve education. These include educating learners about AI, teaching them about living in a world where they will be surrounded by AI and helping educators understand how they can use AI to augment human ability.

Each chapter offers activities and questions to help you deepen your understanding, try out new concepts and reflect on the information presented. Links to media artifacts from trusted sources will help make your learning experience more dynamic while also providing additional resources to use in your classroom.

This book:

Offers a unique approach to the topic, with chapter opening scenes, case studies, and featured student voices.
Discusses a variety of ways to teach students about AI, through design thinking, project-based learning and STEM connections.
Includes lesson ideas, activities and tools for exploring AI with your students.
Includes references to films and other media you can use in class to start discussions on AI or inspire design thinking and STEM projects.

In Teaching AI, you’ll learn what AI is, how it works and how to use it to better prepare students in a world with increased human-computer interaction.

Audience: K-12 educators, tech coordinators, teacher educators

Learning First, Technology Second in Practice

$39.99

Building on the bestselling Learning First, Technology Second, this book helps teachers choose technology tools and instructional strategies based on an understanding of how students learn.

After observing teachers and students interact with technology over many years, Liz Kolb began to wonder: While students’ attention levels are high when they use digital devices, how can we move them to an equally high level of commitment to their learning tasks? Her extensive research into this question led to the development of the Triple E Framework, in which the learning goal—not the tool—is the most important element of a given lesson.

With this understanding, this book extends the ideas from Learning First, Technology Second, offering:

An overview of the popular and highly regarded Triple E Framework.
A compelling myth vs. reality format through which to apply the research and strategies tied to the Triple E Framework.
A step-by-step process for instructional designers and tech coaches to use the framework with classroom teachers for better lesson design.
Twelve authentic lessons designed by K-12 teachers to meet all three elements of the Triple E Framework, with suggestions on how to improve lessons with technology.
Examples of how two schools have systematically integrated the framework across their district.

For Learning First, Technology Second readers, this book builds on their knowledge, providing new research, scenarios, cases and ideas for using technology in education. For readers new to the framework, this book provides all of the essential research and tools mentioned above, along with an overview of the framework, so they can apply what they learn without missing a beat.

Audience: K-16 educators, instructional designers, technology coaches, district leaders

Learning First, Technology Second in Practice

Transform Learning Through Technology

$15.99

This guide to the ISTE Coaching Standards helps define the role of technology coaches and shows how their work connects to the ISTE Standards and learning sciences.

The role of technology coaches in education constantly evolves and encompasses many responsibilities. Coaches inspire educators to improve learning outcomes through the integration of technology, ensuring accessible high-quality learning and lesson plans for all students. Technology coaches also model digital citizenship to support the interactions of educators and students in a digital world.

This guide to the ISTE Standards for Coaches will help define the role of the coach; show how it relates to the roles addressed in the ISTE Standards for Students, Educators and Education Leaders; share information from research and the learning sciences relating to coaching cycles and methodologies; and present scenarios from coaches in diverse situations and with varied backgrounds.

The guide focuses on:

The role of educational technology coaches to transform learning, teaching and leading with technology.
The coach as a key touchstone for change agency in the system to influence up, out and down.
Professionalizing the coaching role, bringing coherence to how coaches relate to other educators and vice versa.
Working with educators to ensure that technology is integrated in a meaningful way to promote the development of knowledge and skills.

Audience: K-12 coaches

ISTE Standards in Action (25-Pack)

$274.99

This guide offers an on-ramp to the ISTE Standards, providing examples of what specific standards look like in practice and advice for getting started.

It’s one thing to read a set of standards and another to put them into practice as a professional in the classroom. This guide is your road map to understanding what the ISTE Standards look like in practice. It provides an overview of each of the standards sections—students, educators, education leaders, coaches and computational thinking competencies – along with examples of specific standards put into practice, resources to try and tips for getting started.

The guide features:

An introduction to each section of the ISTE Standards, with links to resources that illustrate them.
A section titled “Reading the ISTE Standards,” with an explanation of standards components and numbering.
Examples of specific standards and indicators put into practice in different contexts, with tools to try.
Advice for getting started by incorporating the standards in easy and practical ways.

Infusing the ISTE Standards helps create learning environments where technology used for learning is impactful, sustainable, scalable and equitable for all learners. This guide gives you everything you need to get started.

(ISTE Jump Start Guide, 8.5" x 11", 3 laminated panels, 6 pages, 25-pack bundle)

The Global Educator

$39.99

This collection of anecdotes, inspiring examples and methodologies for implementing online global collaboration offers educators from any background and learning environment ideas for connecting with the world to achieve meaningful learning.

Modern learning must be global, providing intercultural understanding and collaboration to personalize learning, achieve curriculum objectives and bring the world to students. Educators must be empowered, and learning environments must be connected in order to “flatten” learning around the globe. This calls for a shift in pedagogy, a shift in mindset and the integration of digital and online technologies.

How do we navigate these new waters of networked learning? What model can be developed for globally connected learning that will support classroom teachers, education leaders and higher education?

In The Global Educator, author and global education forerunner Julie Lindsay answers these questions and more, illustrating the need for intercultural understanding and collaboration to personalize learning and providing a vital snapshot of a time when the world is shrinking and becoming more accessible to all.

The book includes:

Pedagogical approaches and frameworks for global online collaborative learning.
Technology resources to empower educators and education leaders to make meaningful connections.
Case studies and contributions from more than 100 global educators who are embedding their practices into curriculum objectives and providing their students with invaluable educational experiences.

This book provides insights into global learning and how online technology supports a new learning paradigm — one that is global, ubiquitous and potentially very exciting for all learners.

Audience: K-12 classroom teachers; school and district leaders

Connecting to the Past, Building the Future

$12.99

This guide offers fun, practical resources and strategies to help teachers use edtech to enrich history and civics curricula, and build community inside and outside the classroom.

History and social studies educators are uniquely positioned to empower, inspire and motivate students to become engaged citizens who contribute to their communities. When students see themselves in history, they can recognize their importance in the world today. In this guide, two award-winning teachers show how to use edtech to help students engage more fully with history, then apply their learning in ways that promote civics and citizenship on a local, national and global level.

The guide features:

Four easy tips for getting started with edtech.
A short list of widely used edtech apps and tools that are easy to learn and implement.
An introduction to historical empathy, and edtech tools that can help cultivate it in students.
Resources and techniques for building civic awareness in students.
Activities to build community in and out of classrooms.
#TryOneNewThingChallenge ideas that can easily be implemented for lasting impact on classrooms.

Edtech can offer an amazing range of possibilities – such as immersive experiences, interactive online activities and virtual field trips – and this guide explains how well-chosen edtech can expand lessons in a meaningful way so that they come alive for students.

(ISTE Jump Start Guide, 8.5" x 11", three laminated panels, six pages)

Connecting to the Past, Building the Future

Gamify Literacy

$29.99

This friendly, accessible guide offers tips and inspiration on how to apply gamification techniques to improve literacy and deepen student collaboration and critical thinking.

Literacy is at the heart of education — and what better way to teach this important subject than through the motivational techniques built into gamification?

With Gamify Literacy, teacher Michele Haiken brings together top educators and gaming professionals to share gamification strategies, demonstrating how teachers can use game-based tools and activities to improve literacy and content learning.

This book includes:

Tips for implementing gamification techniques to engage and motivate students.
Fun and engaging design to complement a game-based approach to learning.
Examples that can easily be modified for different grade levels.

By exploring the techniques discussed in these pages, you will see the power of building a fully immersive learning environment for your students and can begin infusing these inspirational approaches into your classroom design.

Audience: K-12 language arts teachers, tech coaches