Digital Learning: Strengthening and Assessing 21st Century Skills, Grades 5-8

It’s time for schools and teachers to let go of the past.  What does that mean?  Digital learning: strengthening their student’s twenty-first century skills alongside their content-area learning.

 DIGITAL LEARNING (Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint; January 2012; $29.95/Paper / Also available as an e-book; ISBN: 978-1-118-00233-9) contains a wealth of research-based practices to integrate the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Education Technology Standards (NETS) for both students and teachers.

 Each of the suggested project-based learning examples (in Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Geography) can be used successfully as stand-alone units, but are even more effective when approached in a cross-disciplinary way.

• Provides detailed descriptions of each of the NETS, how to teach them, and how to know if students are meeting them
• Includes dozens of activities that integrate the NETS with each content area and align with Common Core standards
• Includes a complementary DVD with video interviews and project maps to help see how students are progressing

DIGITAL LEARNING is a must and for students to succeed post-High School world – whether it be college or otherwise – they must know how to utilize all that exists in a digital world.