Want to redefine learning? Looking to better utilize devices? Eager to maximize face time in the classroom? HyperDocs are the solution to personalized instruction using technology in today’s modern classroom. They provide innovative ways to engage students and package digital lessons on a Google Doc. The HyperDoc Handbook is a practical reference guide for all K-12 educators looking to transform their teaching into blended learning environments. This book strikes a perfect balance between pedagogy and how-to tips, while also providing several lesson plans to get you going. After reading this handbook, educators will feel equipped to design their own HyperDocs using both Google Apps and the myriad of web tools available online. Let this book become your guide to: Explore the pedagogy behind digital lesson design Follow step-by-step directions on how to create a HyperDoc Reflect and revise digital lessons using a checklist to “hack” your own HyperDocs Select tech tools best suited for lessons Connect and share with other educators Copy and customize sample HyperDocs to use in your own classroom HyperDocs will improve collaboration and instruction between all education stakeholders, including: students, teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, professional developers, and families. After reading The HyperDoc Handbook you will be inspired to create and share!

The HyperDoc Handbook: Digital Lesson Design Using Google Apps

Computers & Technology

Highfill, Lisa

Hilton, Kelly

Landis, Sarah

Software

EdTechTeam

Are you using technology as a tool for learning with your students? Student creations can give us rich information about student learning and growth. Want to hone your skills in assessment to help personalize learning? This book will show you how! Assessment That Matters is for the connected educator who wants to learn more about how to gather rich assessment information and build opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning in creative and innovative ways using technology. Kim Meldrum provides readers with a strong understanding of the role that technology as a tool for learning must play in the education of today’s students, and clearly explains the three types of assessment - assessment as learning, assessment for learning and assessment of learning. This book includes practical examples of how students can creatively demonstrate their learning. Detailed assessment information is provided with each example. After reading this book, teachers will gain the skills they need to effectively assess student work, at the same time building a repertoire of ideas that allow students to demonstrate their learning in different, creative and authentic ways. It’s the best of both worlds - learn to make student thinking visible and easily gather rich assessment information!

Assessment That Matters: Using Technology to Personalize Learning

Education & Teaching

Meldrum, Kim

Schools & Teaching

Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom by Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen 
In “Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom” primary teachers Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen provide a complete selection of clearly laid out engaging open-ended lessons to change the way you use iPad in the classroom. By simply downloading a few basic, open-ended creation apps, your students will engage in the learning process and demonstrate their newfound knowledge in the way that works best for them. In addition, throughout the book Karen and Kristen provide beginner and advanced lessons and quick tips and practical suggestions to make the integration of iPad go as seamlessly as possible. This beautifully laid out book also features downloadable task cards, student generated examples and extension ideas to use with your students.
Whether you have access to one iPad for your entire class or one for each student, these lessons will help you transform learning in your classroom.

Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom

Lirenman, Karen

Wideen, Kristen

Do you think education works? Does it meet the needs of future society, business and most importantly, the average school leaver? In this book, Richard Wells explains his amazement at how all the components of New Zealand education collaborate in creating an ever forward-moving system better prepared for the 21st century than any other. After teaching in the United Kingdom, Wells moved to New Zealand in 2006 to find there was no prescribed curriculum and teachers were trusted to run the whole system, including writing high school graduation assessments themselves. The Government is appreciated by teachers as a supportive aide to them as they hold each other to account in a positive and collaborative nationally networked system. In New Zealand, teachers are proud of the education system they operate and develop with their students, some being unaware of how lucky they are.
Wells explains each of the elements and organisations that jointly form the world’s leading 21st Century education system. He describes the developments and decisions that were made in achieving this and how it is moving into a phase of using student-negotiated national assessments that few other countries’ educators could even contemplate. The book is filled with useful diagrams and posters to illustrate key themes and pedagogies. 
Wells paints a picture of what happens when young people are measured by their depth of thinking and understanding and can personalise their approach to doing so. The book introduces you to a country where the leading people and schools shape the future of world public education.

A Learner's Paradise: How New Zealand is Reimagining Education: A Guidebook for Parents and Educators Everywhere

WELLS, RICHARD

You can set the learning in your classroom free with a strong classroom management plan. The education landscape is shifting. Information accessibility grows while attention spans shrink. Media is king and yet teachers are expected to effectively harness it for learning while also managing the distractions technology tools bring. Keeping up with the times while keeping time-wasters and senseless screen staring down is new and difficult territory for the most seasoned educator.Don’t fear the devices! In the willing teacher’s hands, this is a new and welcome age to harness for exponential learning. It is a frontier where technology equipped teachers learn alongside students and utilize current tools to maximize collaboration, creativity, and communication in relevant ways. Classroom Management in the Digital Age guides and supports established and transitioning device-rich classrooms, providing practical strategy to novice and expert educators K-12. Update your own operating system for the digital age by Getting attention from those device focused facesEstablishing procedures for daily class routines that harness the power of technology toolsCultivating a culture of student ownership and responsibilityDeveloping routines that increase on-task behavior and lessen teacher anxietyCommunicating with parents on best practices and consistent school to home behaviorsDecreasing distraction with simple, helpful tipsLetting go of being the expert and taking charge by partnering in learningClassroom Management in the Digital Age offers teachers competency and confidence. If you have devices in your classroom already or if you’re moving towards implementing tablets, iPads, Chromebooks, or any other device, Classroom Management in the Digital Age will partner with you in creating relevant classrooms where learning rules.

Classroom Management in the Digital Age: Effective Practices for Technology-Rich Learning Spaces

Dowd, Heather

Green, Patrick

Looking for ways to use technology in the classroom to improve learning outcomes and make lessons come alive? 
This book is written for every teacher who wants to amplify teaching and learning in the classroom using powerful online tools that put learning first!
Transform Your Teaching - EdTech experts Holly Clark and Tanya Avrith provide a guidebook to help you use technology to engage your learners and amplify the learning experience in your classroom—with Google Apps and other online tools.
Empower Your Students - This book will teach you how to allow students to show their thinking, demonstrate their learning, and share their work with authentic audiences - to use technology in meaningful ways that prepare them for the future!
Start with 20 Simple Tools - This book focuses on 20 essential tools that will help teachers to easily make student thinking visible, give every student a voice and allow them to share their work.
Examples You Can Use Tomorrow - With instructions for incorporating twenty of the best Google-friendly tools, including a special bonus section on Digital Portfolios

The Google Infused Classroom: A Guidebook to Making Thinking Visible and Amplifying Student Voice

Clark, Holly

Avrith, Tanya

Imagine taking students on an underwater excursion...or exploring Japan's landscape and architecture together…or inviting them to sit in the cello section with the Philadelphia Orchestra during a performance at Carnegie Hall…or going on a field trip to Sequoia National Park in California climbing some of the world's tallest trees.With Google Cardboard, you don’t have to simply imagine. Virtual reality makes learning come to life by putting you and your students in the middle of the action. And with simple tools, easy-to-use apps, and a smart phone or spherical camera, they can be creators of their own immersive photos and videos.In THE GOOGLE CARDBOARD BOOK, EdTechTeam trainers and leaders offer step-by-step instructions on how to use this exciting technology in your classroom---no matter what subject you teach. You’ll learn what tools you need (and how affordable they can be), which apps to start with, and how to view, capture, and share 360-degree videos and images.Where will you take your students next? With Google Cardboard, the possibilities are endless.

The Google Cardboard Book: Explore, Engage, and Educate with Virtual Reality

Duckworth, Sylvia

Heil, Jeffery

Hotler, David

Piercey, Donnie

Thumann, Lisa

It’s an accepted fact that all students need exposure to certain academic disciplines—algebra, world history, chemistry,and probably a Shakespeare play or two. Unfortunately, computer science has not yet risen to must-have status. Given society’s reliance on technology in almost every aspect of modern life, author-educators Kevin Brookhouser and Ria Megnin find the lack of programming education in schools shocking.Code in Every Class explains why computer science is critical to your students’ future success and shows you how to take tech education into your own hands. And here’s the best news: You don’t have to be a computer genius to teach the basics of coding.You’ll learn…How to incorporate fundamental programming skills into your existing lessons—even if you don’t have computer coding experience.How to teach coding principles without a computerWhy computer literacy levels the playing field for underprivileged studentsToo many students have never been shown how to take control of computers and other digital devices. They’re stuck as consumers, when they should be learning how to use tech tools to be creators and problem-solvers. Code in Every Class will allow you to open a world of opportunities to your students, one lesson at a time.

Code in Every Class

Brookhouser, Kevin

Megnin, Ria

Sylvia Duckworth is a Canadian teacher whose sketchnotes have taken social media by storm. Her drawings provide clarity and provoke dialogue on many topics related to education. This book contains 100 of her most popular sketchnotes with links to the original downloads that can be used in class or shared with colleagues. Interspersed throughout the book are Sylvia’s reflections on each drawing and what motivated her to create them, in addition to commentary from other educators who inspired the sketchnotes.

Sketchnotes for Educators

Self-Help

Motivational

What Makes Your School Special?If you’re a teacher, you want your students to love coming to class. If you’re a school leader, you want your teachers to love coming to work. So how do you make your school a place where students and teachers alike want to be—because it’s where they feel energized, inspired…special? In Making Your School Something Special, educator and international speaker Rushton Hurley explores the mindsets, activities, and technology that make for great learning. You’ll learn:*How to think about and create strong learning activities, *Why fostering and sharing successes benefits everyone, *How to strengthen individual confidence in both students and teachers, and *How to know, and help others know, what makes your school special.A great school is a place where everyone experiences meaningful learning, and this book is designed to help you and your colleagues make such learning happen at your campus.

Making Your School Something Special: Enhance Learning, Build Confidence, and Foster Success at Every Level

Hurley, Rushton

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