What are the best ways to motivate students to become engaged and develop a passion for learning? Can appealing to their desire for socialization and constant communication—attributes of their lives outside of education—via the integration of cutting-edge technologies and "new media" in the library or classroom serve to ignite creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking? This book shows how you can make use of non-traditional tools such as popular social networks, collaborative technologies, and cloud computing to teach information and communications technologies integrated with the school curriculum to improve student learning—and demonstrates how these same technologies can help you measure skills and mastery learning.

Leadership -- Mission and core values -- Environment : culture and climate -- Social bookmarking/participatory learning/collaborative research -- Collaborative technologies and cloud computing -- GAFE : Google APPS for education -- Online blended learning -- Establish professional learning network -- Common core -- Instruction -- Assessment -- PLCs -- Google search : strategies and protocols -- Literacy : digital, reading, writing, numeracy and inquiry -- Creativity and curiosity -- Plagiarism -- Copyright and intellectual property -- Cybersafety -- New and emerging technologies.