Cultivating Communication in the Classroom

Future-Ready Skills for Secondary Students

Lisa Johnson

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781506356372
• eBook ISBN: 9781506356389
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Technology

Building 21st Century communication skills 

Students are expected to be innovators, creative thinkers, and problem solvers. But what if they can?t communicate their ideas persuasively? Just because many students are raised communicating through technology doesn't mean they know how to use it effectively. Knowing how to share ideas is as crucial as the ideas themselves. Unfortunately, many students don't get explicit opportunities to hone this skill. 

Cultivating Communication in the Classroom will help educators design authentic learning experiences that allow students to practice their skills. Readers will find:

• Real world insights into how students will be expected to communicate in their future careers and education 
• Strategies for teaching communication skills throughout the curriculum
• Communication Catchers for igniting ideas
• Interviews with industry experts
• Tools for building 21st Century skills

Written by Tech Chef Lisa Johnson, this book demonstrates how communication can be taught through the lens of college and career readiness. 

"This book is the most practical guide I have seen to truly help secondary students be ?future ready.? The advice and tips that Lisa shares should become a standard digital literacy read for all middle school and high school students."
Kyle Pace, Instructional Technology Coach
Grain Valley School District, Kansas City, Missouri

"This book has an unbelievable amount of tips, ideas and great advice for communicating in the 21st century. It?s not only helpful for teaching students to be better communicators but adults as well!"
Jennie Magiera, Chief Technology Officer
Des Plaines School District 62, IL

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 Email Etiquette: Communicating with peers and professionals to elicit an action or response through clear communication, self-advocacy, and due diligence
• Chapter 2 Collaboration and Positive Interdependence: Communicating with peers to think about and through ideas, challenges, and processes
• Chapter 3 Visual Literacy and Presentation Skills: Communicating with peers and educators through visuals, multimedia, oracy, and nonverbal skills to share an idea, process, or learning
• Chapter 4 Student Publishing and Projects: Communicating with an authentic audience through the application of curricular knowledge and construction of content understanding to create a digital or learning artifact
• Chapter 5 Portfolios and Resumes: Communicating with peers and professionals to collect information and learning artifacts to reflect on one’s own learning to cultivate self-knowledge and self-advocacy
• Chapter 6 Social Media: Communicating with peers and a global audience online through social media with the ability to be both a critical consumer of content as well as a thoughtful creator and crafter of their digital doppelgänger
• Chapter 7 Curation: Communicating ideas, learning, and trends with peers and a global audience through the process of seeking, distilling, and making sense of information to be both a critical consumer of content as well as a lifelong learner
• Appendix A Book Study and Communication Cohort Challenges
• Appendix B Communication Catchers
• Appendix C SEL Index
• Appendix D Industry Insights
• Index