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Alan November’s thought-provoking books provide inspiration and practical tips supported by stories of best practices. Alan’s best selling book, Empowering Students With Technology, is an overview of various tools and strategies across the curriculum. His newest book, Web Literacy for Educators, is a practical guidebook that helps teachers and students effectively find, sort, and evaluate information on the Web.
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If you are interested in Alan’s books, you might also consider purchasing our Online Courses. The material goes hand in hand.
Web Literacy For Educators
School filtering is not a sufficient policy to prepare children to be critical thinkers on the Web. Web Literacy for Educators was written to grab the “teachable moment” and help teachers gain a clear understanding of the “grammar” of the Web. The book is filled with practical strategies for teaching children careful search techniques. Stories from thoughtful educators add depth and examples of application across the curriculum.
This book is an essential primer for teachers who want to be expert researchers and to help students to become life-long learners.
“Both the newcomer and the tech-savvy educator can find something useful from this well-organized, easy-to-follow book. A wonderful addition for educators at any grade level.”
Key concepts:
- Web basics for critical thinking
- Empowering researchers
- Validating information on the Web
- Expanding the boundaries of learning
Empowering Students with Technology
Alan’s best selling book includes powerful stories, ideas and practical applications. This book has been embraced internationally by a wide range of educators and policy makers interested in the impact of technology on learning. Teachers can modify practical activities to support subject areas. Activities, called “E-ventures,” are designed to motivate and challenge students to develop critical thinking and problem solving strategies. Stories of teachers are woven throughout to provide examples of strategies that work.
Planning committees can use ideas and pioneering stories to move beyond technology literacy to information and communication literacy. Principals benefit from ideas about leadership and managing change. With more than 50 useful Web sites, Empowering Students with Technology is an important book for any educator who endeavors to build an engaging and interactive learning environment.
“Students will learn to work with other learners in other places around the world by learning the technical skills that will allow them access to information — and acquire social interaction and teamwork skills while doing so. This is an essential addition to the educational reference shelf for classroom instruction from grade school through high school and college.”
Key concepts:
- Understanding the structure of information
- Empowering learners by expanding relationships
- Emerging roles within the knowledge community
- Accessing primary sources of information
- Building knowledge without boundaries
