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Courageous Edventures: Navigating Obstacles to Discover Classroom Innovation
Chart a course to innovation using educational technology.Let’s go on an edventure! Do you want to innovate and take risks in your teaching? Looking for ways to troubleshoot common classroom challenges? Jennie Magiera charts a course for you to discover your own version of innovation, using the limitless possibilities of educational technology. Packed with lesson plans, examples, and solutions, Courageous Edventures will show
How to create your own Teacher-IEP (Innovation Exploration Plan) Strategies and solutions for tackling common educational technology problems Methods for putting learning into the hands of students How to find innovation in everyday places
How to create your own Teacher-IEP (Innovation Exploration Plan) Strategies and solutions for tackling common educational technology problems Methods for putting learning into the hands of students How to find innovation in everyday places
198 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 3, 2016
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April 21, 2020
Jennie Magiera has been my Ed-Tech hero since I saw her speak at ISTE Denver in 2016. If you are an educator struggling to make a difference in your classroom, this is the book for you. You'll want to have a "Gripe Session" and sort out your frustrations and then choose 1 to focus on. You will need support from PLN/PLC, and off you go on an Adventure!
"Let’s go on an edventure! Do you want to innovate and take risks in your teaching? Looking for ways to troubleshoot common classroom challenges? Jennie Magiera charts a course for you to discover your own version of innovation, using the limitless possibilities of educational technology. Packed with lesson plans, examples, and solutions, Courageous Edventures will show you:
How to create your own Teacher-IEP (Innovation Exploration Plan)
Strategies and solutions for tackling common educational technology problems
Methods for putting learning into the hands of students
How to find innovation in everyday places"
"Let’s go on an edventure! Do you want to innovate and take risks in your teaching? Looking for ways to troubleshoot common classroom challenges? Jennie Magiera charts a course for you to discover your own version of innovation, using the limitless possibilities of educational technology. Packed with lesson plans, examples, and solutions, Courageous Edventures will show you:
How to create your own Teacher-IEP (Innovation Exploration Plan)
Strategies and solutions for tackling common educational technology problems
Methods for putting learning into the hands of students
How to find innovation in everyday places"
March 22, 2017
This book is an excellent resource for 21st-century educators! This book would be ideal for:
-Teachers and anyone else on the front lines of educating kids in the classroom
-EdTech Coaches
-Administrators
-Anyone who thinks that the effective use of technology in the classroom is simply to take notes on a machine or annotate a PDF worksheet and has never really seen the power of technology use in a classroom
For any of those audiences mentioned above, they will gain a whole repertoire of ideas for new class activities. Even if you don’t go on Jennie’s Courageous Edventure described throughout the book (although, I highly recommend you do), you’d be ready to rock ‘n roll with tons of strategies, tools and ideas. For those who go a step further and actually find a problem of practice to improve, this book will give you realistic steps to take and the confidence to take them. The book provides strategies for coaches and administrators that can be taken in pieces, or in full, to support teachers transformation in the classroom (or to improve their own practice). For the fourth group mentioned above, there would be no mistaking that technology can be extremely powerful for students’ learning when we transform how we do things in the classroom and take technology integration deeper.
-Teachers and anyone else on the front lines of educating kids in the classroom
-EdTech Coaches
-Administrators
-Anyone who thinks that the effective use of technology in the classroom is simply to take notes on a machine or annotate a PDF worksheet and has never really seen the power of technology use in a classroom
For any of those audiences mentioned above, they will gain a whole repertoire of ideas for new class activities. Even if you don’t go on Jennie’s Courageous Edventure described throughout the book (although, I highly recommend you do), you’d be ready to rock ‘n roll with tons of strategies, tools and ideas. For those who go a step further and actually find a problem of practice to improve, this book will give you realistic steps to take and the confidence to take them. The book provides strategies for coaches and administrators that can be taken in pieces, or in full, to support teachers transformation in the classroom (or to improve their own practice). For the fourth group mentioned above, there would be no mistaking that technology can be extremely powerful for students’ learning when we transform how we do things in the classroom and take technology integration deeper.
December 2, 2017
Every educator should read this book. It is packed full of ways to bring joy into your classroom: from problem-based learning to developing student voice to succeeding at social media: this book has it all. It also is a prime example of why we need more innovative thinking in our schools, and not just more technology. Grab this book and read it today!
March 24, 2020
Some good ideas. But, very much geared toward elementary/ middle school age groups and STEM focused... both of which are a bit irrelevant. Even so, still some good takeaways as a high school English teacher.
April 25, 2019
A nice road map to being courageous in the classroom. A good reminder that it is okay to fail, but it is not okay to stay stagnant and not try new things to reach students.
July 11, 2020
Tons of great ideas here! Also, lots of additional resources made available through the various links and QR codes shared.
November 26, 2017
Phenomenal book and inspiring resource for the 21st Century classroom teacher or instructional technology coach!
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