Book Review: The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age

We finish our social media series by Marketing & Membership Assistant Lauren Rhodes with this review of The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age.

William Kist’s The Socially Networked Classroom should be in every teacher’s classroom.  Kist’s background as a teacher enables him to interact with educators on their level and provide realistic examples and resources.  Kist begins by explaining new media and social stereotypes then introduces the reader to the new literacies of social media.  From there, The Socially Networked Classroom is organized based on the availability of technology and internet access in your educational environment.  Depending on the individual access of the reader to technology, Kist then provides ideas, guidelines, and strategies to implement in the classroom.  Every chapter provides real-world examples and resources, classroom questions, and samples of rubrics and worksheets.

We recommend this book as a valuable resource for any adviser, teacher educator, or educational administrator; whether they have expansive knowledge of social media or have never used this technology before.


Ordering Information:
Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Corwin Press (October 21, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1412967015
ISBN-13: 978-1412967013