The best educators are not content to do the same old thing year after year. Innovative educators push their thinking by engaging in social media, exploring blogs, attending conferences, and exploring the newest generation of educational books.
We've created a Recommended Educational Book Site to organize and share some great books connected to teaching and learning.
As part of my Summer Break Professional Development Exploration, I will share a new book that I am reading this summer each Monday. I am hoping to engage in a new book each week until we head back to school in August.
Up this week is DON'T Ditch That Tech: Differentiated Instruction in a Digital World by Matt Miller, Nate Ridgway, Angelia Ridgway.
Daunted by differentiation and devices?
Ditching tech isn’t the answer—understanding how to find the right tool, for the right teacher, for the right moment is!
Don’t Ditch That Tech, provides practical ideas to help you find the sweet spot where classroom devices meet students’ needs. In this teacher-tailored guide, you’ll find tips on how to handle cart/lab scenarios, develop attention-grabbing strategies, build metacognitive practices, and more—all with differentiation in mind. Whether you're a tech newbie or the school’s device guru, you’ll walk away with new understandings and strategies for transforming and diversifying your approach to teaching in a twenty-first-century world.
Authors Matt Miller, Nate Ridgway, and Angelia Ridgway, PhD, bring a diverse range of perspectives to this useful guide. From their own classroom experiences they share practical suggestions for working within your classroom walls—and ultimately, transforming your students’ lives beyond it.
You’ll find ideas for how to use tech to . . .
- Personalize learning and add authenticity
- Promote metacognition and student agency
- Increase students’ and stakeholders’ access to your classroom
- And more!
Matt Miller has also written Ditch That Textbook and coauthored Ditch that Homework with Alice Keeler. Angelia Ridgway has also coauthored 14,641 Lesson Plans: A Flip-Book for Designing Engaging Lessons.
If you are looking for additional Summer Professional Development resources be sure to visit the Summer Learning - Growing as a Teacher and a Learner post.
You can also explore the Know Your Why Blog to see our past book recommendations.
No comments:
Post a Comment