Empowering Students with Technology

Fifty Web sites, lesson ideas, new resources, and real-life examples help educators use technology to expand classroom experiences and strengthen students’ critical thinking, research, and problem-solving skills.

From an international leader in facilitating the integration of technology into learning and critical thinking, Empowering Students With Technology will energize the classroom with exciting ideas that will spark students` interest and rekindle the thrill of teaching. This book helps students and teachers connect content to real life through new resources and learning relationships that are available through technology. E-VENTURES, learning adventures powered by technology, will provide practical lesson ideas. Featured real-life stories demonstrate not only what is possible but also what technology is already accomplishing in classrooms. Fifty Web sites to support great teaching and learning are also included.

Technology consultant November explores and explains the opportunities technology provides to empower students to learn how to learn. He discusses the new basic skill of information literacy and covers how teachers can be successful "digital immigrants"—not born to the world of technology, like the current generation, but able to help their students thrive in it nonetheless. He provides examples of skills needed to solve real problems (e.g., communication, data interpretation, collaboration), and how teachers can facilitate their students' learning in these areas with specific technology tools.

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Alan November began his education career as a science and math teacher and a residential dorm counselor on an island reform school in Boston Harbor.  Alan went on as a teacher and administrator in the  Boston Public Schools, Lexington and Wellesley, Mass, Public Schools and the Glenbrook High Schools in Illinois.  He has also taught in the graduate schools of education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Seton Hall in New Jersey.  He was the co-founder of the Institute for education leadership and technology at Stanford University.  He has presented in all 50 states, every province of Canada, across Europe, Asia, Central America and South Africa.  He is most proud of being named one of the first Christa McAuliffe Educators in the United States.  He is the author of the best selling Corwin book, Empowering Students With Technology. An early book that he wrote at the dawn of new technology helped reorient the focus of education away from teaching computer languages like BASIC and instead toward student use of computer applications for authentic learning and critical thinking. The title sold more than 100,000 copies.  Each July, Alan also leads the international Building Learning Communities summer conference near Boston.