Personalized Learning - Softcover

Margaret Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564843521 ISBN 13: 9781564843524

Publisher: International Society for Technology in Education, 2014

Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology is designed to help educators make sense of the shifting landscape in modern education. While changes may pose significant challenges, they also offer countless opportunities to engage students in meaningful ways to improve their learning outcomes.

Personalized learning is the key to engaging students, as teachers are leading the way toward making learning as relevant, rigorous, and meaningful inside school as outside and what kids do outside school: connecting and sharing online, and engaging in virtual communities of their own Renowned author of the Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go series, Dale Basye, and award winning educator Peggy Grant, provide a go-to tool available to every teacher today technology as a way to personalize the education experience for every student, enabling students to learn at their various paces and in the way most appropriate to their learning styles.

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE�) is the premier nonprofit organization serving educators and education leaders committed to empowering connected learners in a connected world. ISTE serves more than 100,000 educators globally; our practitioner-authored publications improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in kindergarten through high-school classrooms, in schools, as well as teacher professional development.

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About the Author:

Peggy Grant PhD in literacy education, is an award-winning junior high English and reading teacher Grant taught at Purdue University Calumet and worked as a literacy consultant with Learning Point Associates. As senior content developer for Clarity Innovations, Grant writes educational content for the web and for online and face-to-face training in project-based-learning and technology integration. She is known speaker on the Education circuit and conducts workshops on literacy, assessment, higher-order thinking, and 21st- century skills.

Dale Basye is an award-wining author and creative director with more than 20 years experience in journalism and advertising. Basye specializes in creating dynamic, relevant multimedia experiences for children; he has produced materials for Quaker Oats Company, Nestl� USA, Lucasfilm Ltd, Mattel Inc., Lego, and many Oregon based school systems. His work has earned two Communication Arts Awards of Excellence, a Gold and Bronze medal in the Summit Creative Awards, and two Portland Rosey Awards for Interactive Work. Basye is author of Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go series of young adult books.

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