internet in education

Discusses how to use modern Internet and phone technology to learn history.

Examines how social bookmarking can impact academic and public libraries and increase collaborations with both patrons and faculty, and introduces a variety of social bookmarking websites with tutorials and activities for a wide range of users.

Profiles more than one hundred applications for smart phones and tablets that can be used in the classroom for content areas including language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and more.

Educator and technology consultant Monica Burns shares strategies, tools, and insights that all teachers can use to effectively incorporate technology in the classroom.

Contains thirty-two essays, reflective and practical, on the changes technology has brought to literacy education, discussing such topics as writing for on-line audiences, making meaning of technologies, ethical and policy issues, community on the Internet, and hypermedia authoring as critical literacy.

A guide for finding, collecting, storing, and sharing reliable web-based information, and building students' information literacy skills.

A guide to using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom that provides practical strategies, a reference of tools, and suggestions for engaging students in authentic learning experiences.

"[Teacher-librarian Jennifer Casa-Todd argues that] equipping students for their future begins by helping them become digital leaders now. [Moreover, she stresses that] in our networked society, students need to learn how to leverage social media to connect to people, passions, and opportunities to grow and make a difference ... [She presents stories of] kids who are leveraging social media inpositive and powerful ways"--Back cover.