Books

School leaders and classroom teachers are looking for ways to integrate maker learning into their work in meaningful ways, but they simply don’t have the time, capacity or resources to review, synthesise or adapt existing models into their own school systems. The maker playbook offers a vision and the tools needed to streamline the process, including high-impact strategies you can put directly into action to foster an inclusive maker learning environment.

Our world hinges on storytelling, and the ways in which stories can be told are always evolving. Moviemaking in the classroom provides insight, inspiration and practical ideas to empower teachers in all content areas to implement moviemaking projects with their students.

Ethics in a digital world is designed to help students consider the systems and structures in which they spend so much of their time, guiding them in looking at the technology around them through a critical lens.

With this book, teachers get the guidance they need to help students engage in learning experiences that allow them to reflect on their level of knowledge and what they need to learn, while exploring topics that correspond with their interests. Readers will learn to guide students in creating tutorial videos, providing peer reviews, curating their own resources, participating in debates and more.

Uncovering student ideas about engineering and technology has the potential to help you take an important first step in teaching for understanding – and perhaps transform your teaching about STEM-related topics.

Personalized deeper learning articulates how all teachers can simultaneously teach assessed academic content and promote crucial deeper learning skills. Bellanca offers blueprints for teachers and students, clear tools with which teachers can become effective guides in the process of student-directed discovery, regardless of grade level or style.

In recent years, maker-centred learning has emerged in schools and other spaces as a promising new phase of STEM education reform. With a sharp focus on equity, the authors investigate community-based STEM-making programs to determine whether, and how, they can address the educational needs of youth of colour. The authors explore what it means for youth to engage in making with the explicit goal of addressing injustices in their lives. The text features longitudinal ethnographic data and compelling examples that show how youth of colour from low-income backgrounds innovate and make usable artefacts to improve their lives and their communities. This book is essential reading for STEM educators in both formal and informal educational settings.

The digital age is rapidly changing how young people experience and interact with the world. Awash in a sea of information, our kids are in danger of becoming shallow, superficial thinkers, lacking the critical tools for in-depth analysis of the content they encounter.

In this timely book, authors Patricia and Martin Buoncristiani will help you understand the powerful changes that have taken place over the last two decades and offer practical ways to develop and deepen young people’s thinking both at school and at home.

Summarisation. Just when we thought we knew everything about it, the doors to divergent thinking open and summarisation takes on an exciting new role in student success. In this second edition of Summarization in Any Subject, the authors add fresh depth and creative variations to the basis, including changes to all 50 techniques from the first edition and brand new summarising techniques that can be differentiated for multiple disciplines and levels of student readiness. This new edition provides practical "show me what it looks like" tools and descriptions as well as QR codes and tech integrations for many of the techniques. It's time to revitalise learning and shatter the tedium associated with summarisation, and this new edition of Summarization in Any Subject can help you do just that.

In Demonstrating Student Mastery with Digital Badges and Portfolios, David Niguidula shows how students can meet standards and express their individuality through digital badges and portfolios. Building off an essential question - What do schools want their students to know and be able to do? - he then shows how schools can implement a proficiency-based approach to student learning that has been successfully field-tested in districts across the United States. In manageable steps, readers are guided through the implementation process. Replete with real-life examples, this book is essential reading for principals who want to take their schools to the next level, and for teachers who want a refreshing and sensible approach to assessment.

This popular ISTE title follows the arc of a project, providing guided opportunities for educators to direct and reflect on their learning and professional development. In this updated 10th anniversary edition, Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss offer educators new examples of the latest tools, assessment strategies and promising practices that are poised to shape education in the future. Reinventing Project-Based Learning, Third Edition shows how to design authentic projects that make the most of available and emerging technologies. With new and updated spotlights from educators, project examples and recommendations for tools, this new edition has everything you need to embark on a PBL adventure!

Few resources are available for district and school leaders looking to establish successful STEM labs. Frequently, efforts don’t gain traction because they lack a systemic approach and support from a broad spectrum of stakeholders within the school community. Building a K-12 STEM Lab addresses this challenge from the perspective of the leader, identifying opportunities for capacity building and ensuring equal access and equity for all students. The comprehensive and flexible approach outlined in this book will help school and district leaders develop productive community partnerships in support of STEM education within the STEM lab and throughout the school.