educational innovations

"[This book] takes an in-depth look at the paradigm-shifting work that school libraries are doing to advnace student learning, professional development, and school-wide engagement"--Back cover.

"What Is the Role of Technology in Education?: Books in this anthology series focus a wide range of viewpoints onto a single controversial issue, providing in-depth discussions by leading advocates, a quick grounding in the issues, and a challenge to critical thinking skills"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses how school leaders can plan facilities and design a curriculum with new instructional models and a technology infrastructure based on digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.

Describes a education reform strategy that uses an entrepreneurial approach, asking that school systems be judged based on performance and productivity and compete over cost and quality, design personnel policies to benefit deserving teachers, and schools receive funding for new ventures and in support of creative problem solving.

A guide to leading effective Project Adventure programs that includes ideas for games, activities, warm-ups, closures, and more.

The Internet is host to a world of information… and misinformation. At the Khan Academy—an online education site started by visionary Salman Khan—one can learn about such diverse subjects as whether there are different sizes of infinity, or if basketball star and regular contributor to the site LeBron James thinks it’s easier to make three free throws or one three pointer. That’s right: LeBron James is a regular contributor. And Bill Gates’s kids are regular visitors. Find out just who Salman Khan is and how he became a superstar magnet—and a superstar in his own right.