Weekend Reading: Teaching the iGeneration
Last year I began an occasional series of brief posts dedicated to featuring books, articles, and research papers that can foster professional growth. It’s well past time to revive that concept, and as a first offering for the new school year I emphatically recommend Teaching the iGeneration: Five easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Tools. Written by veteran educators Bill Ferriter and Adam Garry, iGeneration directly speaks to the challenges and opportunities of educating our multitasking, hyper-connected youth. Not simply a book about technology, iGeneration is laden with practical suggestions for using everything from social bookmarking services to wikis and blogs.
As Bill notes in his introduction of the book on The Tempered Radical, ” While you’ll find plenty of handouts detailing best practices for introducing new digital tools to your students, the focus of each chapter—and the strategies that I recommend—stands squarely on the characteristics of good teaching. Readers will learn about the characteristics of effective persuasion and information management practices. They’ll explore the characteristics of collaborative dialogue—a communication practice that has been essential for centuries—and take a closer look at the types of problems that students need to solve.”
Although iGeneration is available in hardcover and paperback (and well worth the nominal investment), for a very limited time Solution Tree is making the book available FREE OF CHARGE when you sign up for a complimentary Solution Tree account. In addition, Meg Ormiston, author of Creating a Digital Rich Classroom, and Adam Garry, iGeneration co-author, will be joining Bill for a focused three-day Voicethread conversation, August 26-28, on the characteristics of effective teaching. Details will be forthcoming and I would encourage you to participate in this exciting endeavor. In the meantime, grab a copy of iGeneration and enjoy.
Happy Reading!
August 20th, 2010 at 4:01 am
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August 23rd, 2010 at 4:42 am
Thanks for the kind words on Teaching the iGeneration, Pat. I’m pretty proud of it, but then again, I’m kind of biased! Anytime someone I respect believes in something I’ve written, I’m tickled.
A reminder to your readers that all of the handouts in TiG will always be available for free download here:
http://go.solution-tree.com/technology
While I’d love it if people read the whole book, ultimately, I just want to help people—and if browsing through and downloading handouts improves teaching, that’s a win for me.
Rock on,
Bill
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