Matthew Rhoads - Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative - Amplifying Instructional Design: A Global Collaborative

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ISBN: 978-1-953852-87-8

Amplify Learning: A Global Collaborative is a book series about integrating instructional strategies with EdTech tools to amplify learning written and compiled by educators throughout the world. Compiled and edited by two EdTech experts, innovators, and coaches, Matthew Rhoads and Becky Lim recruited K-16 educators from across the world to write a chapter of their area of expertise in integrating instructional strategies with EdTech tools to amplify their instruction and student learning. To learn more about the book series, check out www.AmpGlobalEdu.com for information.

Within the first book of the series, Amplifying Instructional Design covers an assortment of engagement, collaboration, assessment, and feedback strategies integrated with EdTech for any classroom setting. By reading through each of these strategies and EdTech integrations, you will have a toolkit and repository of strategies that you can use to create any type of lesson within any classroom setting. Amplify your student learning and instruction by taking these practical and applicable strategies and integrations into the classroom and school by tried and true integrations from educators across the world.

The second book of the series, Amplifying Authentic Reading, Writing, and Mathematics covers several instructional strategies integrated with EdTech tools to amplify student learning in these key content areas. Teachers will be provided with a toolkit of practical and applicable instructional strategies that can be utilized across any grade level to build student skills within in-person, online, and blended learning classroom settings. Strategies in this book will be illustrated utilizing a wide range of EdTech tools that are available in classrooms from around the world. Readers will be able to come to this book, again and again, to build their instructional toolkit to meet the needs of their ever-changing classroom and student needs.

The third book of the series, Amplifying Student Inquiry in Robotics, Computer Science, and STEAM provides teachers with a toolkit of strategies to teach Robotics, Computer Science, and STEAM using a variety of EdTech tools. The instructional strategies and EdTech tool integrations illustrated in this book meet the needs of growing student skills across content areas that help power our modern world.

Teachers will see examples of how they can conduct cross-curricular lessons as well as put students in the position to learn the foundations of coding to create, empower, and even control robots. Readers will be able to see examples of the strategies provided in action as well as be provided with additional resources to help them plan and execute the lessons.

The fourth book of the series, Amplifying Diverse Learning Need, provides teachers with a toolkit of strategies to differentiate and personalize instruction while integrating EdTech toosl to amplify student learning for diverse and multilingual learners. Strategies and EdTech integrations discussed in this book are geared towards providing teachers and diverse learners opportunities to provide optimal instruction within online, blended, and in-person classroom settings to meet students individual learning needs. Teachers will be able to take a multitude of strategies discussed back to their classroom to help further differentiate lessons through multiple modalities and EdTech supports and personalize them to meet each student where they are at.

Educators throughout the world are our best resources. Working together by supporting each other's practice amplifies our instruction and our students' learning. Living in an interconnected world allows us to connect more than ever and seamlessly learn from one another. As our world continues to transform and change at an ever-increasing rate, Interconnection becomes essential to providing our students with the most innovative and transformational instruction possible to meet the needs of all of our learners.

Education is evolving quickly, which means our tool kits must also grow. This includes the nature of teaching and facilitating and designing research-based instruction for our students. Technology has been integrated into almost every facet of education and has created classrooms without boundaries. As a result, the traditional brick-and-mortar walls of the classroom do not necessarily apply anymore. Learning can occur anywhere and at any time, which creates opportunities for teachers and students alike to engage in learning in ways that have not been done before in the traditional sense of classrooms.

What does instructional design look like in our modern world of education? Instructional design consists of utilizing strategies, curriculum, and technology to develop and create learning experiences for students. Educators write lesson plans that can be implemented into the classroom settings and utilize current research and strategies to meet student needs. Therefore, when speaking about instructional design, it is essentially developing instruction that can be delivered to students through instructional strategies integrated with technology. Currently, in classrooms across the world, we are in the midst of integrating technology into each and every facet of our instruction and classrooms, which is a massive shift in education. As a result, instruction can take place and move interchangeably among online, blended, and traditional in-person modes, transcending when and where teaching and learning can take place.

While technology integration holds much promise, there is much learning that needs to take place among educators. We now know the importance of using educational technology (EdTech) to enhance our instruction. Collectively as educators, we are being called upon to integrate instructional strategies with EdTech to amplify learning. Research-based strategies around instructional technology also show increased student opportunities for learning. Now, with such a variety of EdTech tools, we can amplify these opportunities exponentially like never before. As a result, learning can be limitless, creative, effective, and more efficient for our students.