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5 Skills for the Global Learner: What Everyone Needs to Navigate the Digital World
Contributor(s): Barnes, Mark D. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1483382915     ISBN-13: 9781483382913
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
OUR PRICE: $12.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Computers & Technology
- Computers | Educational Software
- Education | Multicultural Education
Dewey: 371.334
Series: Corwin Connected Educators
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" L (0.10 lbs) 64 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated
 
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Tap the power of digital learning!

In today's digital world, distance and cultural differences are inconsequential. Technology empowers students and provides them with unlimited resources and opportunities. With this easy guide, you'll learn the five essential skills to transform students into global learners:

  • Creating and sharing digital information
  • Using social media
  • Digital publishing
  • Building a personal learning network
  • Using aggregators to create, maintain, and share content

Loaded with tips and examples for using PLNs, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Jing, and other essential tools, this breakthrough guide to incredible learning opportunities will keep you and your students a step ahead!

Contributor Bio(s): Barnes, Mark D.: - Mark Barnes is a veteran classroom teacher, education consultant, and author of the critically acclaimed Role Reversal: Achieving Uncommonly Excellent Results in the Student-Centered Classroom (ASCD, 2013), The 5-Minute Teacher (ASCD, 2013) and Teaching the iStudent (Corwin, 2014). A longtime adjunct professor at two Ohio colleges, Mark has created five online courses on web-based instruction, mobile learning, and using Twitter in the classroom and as a professional development tool. A leading expert on student-centered learning, Mark has helped thousands of educators build digitally enhanced, project-based, no-grades classrooms. Mark is the creator of the internationally recognized how-to video site for educators, Learn it in 5, and publisher of the popular education blog Brilliant or Insane. Named a Top 10 education technology blog by EdTech Magazine in 2014, B or I inspires hundreds of thousands of loyal readers. Mark's Facebook group, Teachers Throwing Out Grades, is a growing collection of educators dedicated to changing the way learning is assessed, and this group helped launch the #ThrowOutGrades Challenge. Mark can be found sharing information and articles about best practices in education daily on Twitter at @markbarnes19.


http: //www.markbarnes19.com/

http: //www.brilliant-insane.com/

https: //www.facebook.com/groups/teachersthrowingoutgrades/

View the author's TED talk here: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=JShsO5PvYG4
 
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