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I have just finished reading Web 2.0 How-to For Educators by Gwen Solomon and Lynne Schrum. This book has certainly become my favorite educational technology book that I have read recently.
Whether you are a beginner techie teacher or a more experienced one, there are great ideas that you can get from this book. It provides you with a practical guide to integrate Web 2.0 tools into the classroom, and it is filled with many ideas easy that are easy to implement in order for you to reach out and engage your learners in the 21st century. It also showcases other teachers who are using these tools in their classes with examples from the web including the analysis of the tools that educators use. This book is certainly highlights the 21st century skills of the educators and the students.
I also appreciated the last chapter where you can find 200 Web tools that are categorized in different titles. The authors gave me lots to think about and showed me many new tools that I can use in my classes and share with other educators on my blog.
Here are my favorite quotes from the book:
“When they (our students) go to work in the future, it will be in an environment where reliance on technology is a given and the skills they need are the ability to adapt, learn new skills, and work in ever-changing teams depending purpose…”
“Students need teachers’ guidance to do more than play with these tools and teachers need easy-to-use applications that are clear about when, why and how to use them…”
“Educators can use new tools so that students have new ways to learn both old and new skills…”
“Web tools can provide new opportunities. Students can learn the skills of communication, collaboration and creativity.”
“… but online tools can be used to transform both the process of working with others and the product that results"
Publisher: International Society for Technology in Education (October 15, 2010).
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About the Authors
Gwen Solomon has been the director of the websites techLEARNING.com, Digital Learning Environments, 21st Century Connections, and the Well Connected Educator. She is an author, editor of custom websites, presenter, and advisor to ed tech companies. Past positions include senior analyst with the U.S. Department of Education, coordinator of instructional technology planning for the New York City Public Schools, and founding director of New York Citys School of the Future.
Lynne Schrum is a professor and coordinator of elementary and secondary education at George Mason University. An author of numerous articles and five books, including Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools and Considerations on Technology and Teachers, Schrum is currently the editor of the Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE). She is a past ISTE president and past member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Council.
Source: TL Advisor Blog and Amazon.com
