Getting It Right: Aligning Technology Initiatives is designed to help educational leaders and decision-makers wade through the complexities of technology planning. This presentation outlines a simple yet comprehensive multi-point strategy of alignment that will enable technology initiatives to become effectively linked and in tandem with instructional goals.
Participants will come away from this presentation with a clear understanding of how to address standards, improve test scores, meet their curricular requirements, provide relevant staff development, and provide measurable accountability for expenditures. They’ll also ensure that students are effectively prepared with the skills and knowledge they will need to cope with the new realities of the 21st century.

The Future Tense of Teaching in the Digital Age The digital environment has radically changed how and what students need and want to learn, but has educational delivery radically changed? Get ready to be challenged to accommodate today’s learners as opposed to allowing default classroom practices. With its touches of humor and choose-your-own-adventure approach, the book encourages readers to search for interesting, relevant or required material and then jump right in. At its core, readers will: Consider predictions about future learning. Understand how to leverage nine core learning attributes of digital generations. Discover ten critical roles educators can embrace to remain relevant in the digital age.

The authors challenge educators to adapt to a high-tech world. Included are four exponential trends that we cannot ignore and a vision for the future.

This Book Explores The Fundamental Characteristics Of The Children In This New Digital Generation, And How Our Educational Procedures Can Be Modified To Enhance Their Experiences Of Learning While Supporting Traditional Literacy In Tandem With The Essential New 21st Century Fluencies. You Will Gain A Clear Picture Of The Dramatically Different Way The Digital Generation Thinks, Learns, Views Our World, And Interacts As We Follow Them Through This Vast Digital Landscape. -- Back Cover Introduction -- The Need For Balance -- The Problem Of The Gap -- What We Know About The Digital Generation -- Learning Preferences Of The Digital Generation -- An Impending Tragedy -- It's Time To Catch Up -- A Shift To Whole-mind Instruction -- Teachers Must Move Off The Stage -- Teachers Must Let Students Access Information Natively -- Teachers Must Let Students Collaborate -- Teachers Must Teach Students Visually -- Teachers Must Re-evaluate Evaluation -- A Need For Leadership. [ian Jukes, Ted Mccain, Lee Crockett ; Foreword By Marc Prensky]. ... Second Book In Our 21st Century Fluency Series--p. [i]. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [139]-142) And Index.

Windows on the Future was designed to help the educator cope with changes created by technology and embrace a new mind-set necessary to access burgeoning technological advances. was designed to help the educator cope with changes created by technology and embrace a new mind-set necessary to access burgeoning technological advances.

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