The Digital Diet: Today’s Digital Tools in Small Bytes (The 21st Century Fluency Series) - Softcover

Churches, Andrew; Watanabe-Crockett, Lee; Jukes, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412982367 ISBN 13: 9781412982368

Publisher: Corwin, 2010

Synopsis

Explore a menu of today′s new digital tools!

Understanding today′s online world and relating to the digital generation can be a daunting process for the newcomer. The Digital Diet demonstrates how online technologies can be utilized in today′s classroom to foster enjoyable and productive learning.

Offering a tantalizing buffet of various kinds of digital fare, such as blogs, wikis, social networking tools, and podcasts, this concise "diet" allows beginning and experienced users to get a taste of various digital tools at their individual pace. Using numerous screen shots and compelling examples, the authors explain what each tool is, define critical terminology, discuss why educators might use the tool, and provide guidance for using the tool in teaching. This resource presents steps for:

• Completing searches and using Del.iciou.us to bookmark favorite sites
• Preparing documents anytime and anywhere
• Communicating with friends and colleagues around the world through Skype
• Developing networks and providing updates through Facebook, Twitter, and blogs
• Sharing and discussing pictures, presentations, or videos through VoiceThread and Flickr

The Digital Diet supplies an entertaining commentary on the basics many of the most popular online tools in use today.

About this title

About the Authors

Andrew Churches is a teacher and ICT enthusiast. He teaches at Kristin School on Auckland’s North Shore, a school with a mobile computing program that sees students with personal mobile devices and laptops. He is an edublogger, wiki author, and innovator. In 2008, Andrew’s wiki, Educational Origami, was nominated for the Edublogs Best Wiki awards. He contributes to a number of web sites and blogs including Techlearning, Spectrum Education magazine, and the Committed Sardine Blog. Andrew believes that to prepare our students for the future we must prepare them for change and teach them to question, think, adapt, and modify.

Lee Crockett is a national award-winning designer, marketing consultant, entrepreneur, artist, author, and international keynote speaker. He is the director of media for the InfoSavvy Group and the managing partner of the 21st Century Fluency Project. Lee is a "just in time learner" who is constantly adapting to the new programs, languages, and technologies associated with today’s communications and marketing media. Understanding the need for balance in our increasingly digital lives, Lee has lived in Kyoto, Japan, where he studied Aikido and the tea ceremony, as well as Florence, Italy, where he studied painting at the Accademia D′Arte.


Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor, and keynote speaker. He is the director of the InfoSavvy Group, an international consulting group that provides leadership and program development in the areas of assessment and evaluation, strategic alignment, curriculum design and publication, professional development, planning, change management, hardware and software acquisition, information services, customized research, media services, and online training as well as conference keynotes and workshop presentations. Over the past 10 years, Jukes has worked with clients in more than 40 countries and made more than 7,000 presentations, typically speaking to between 300,000 and 350,000 people a year. His Committed Sardine Blog is read by more than 78,000 people in 75 countries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412982367
• ISBN 13: 9781412982368
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196