Matthew Rhoads – författare

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 on their area of expertise in integrating instructional strategies with EdTech tools to amplify their instruction and student learning.

Within the first book of the series of four books, 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.

Instruction Without Boundaries: Enhance Your Teaching Strategies with Technology Tools in Any Setting is about creating classrooms without physical and digital instructional boundaries so our students can have the opportunities to learn anywhere and at any time in our ever-changing world. This book provides K-16 educators with a guide that includes instructional strategies grounded in research and practice that can be integrated into mainstream EdTech tools to amplify student learning in online, blended, and traditional in-person classroom settings. This book includes an assortment of instructional strategies and EdTech integrations that work in any classroom setting that focus on the following:

After reading this book, K-16 educators will have a toolbox of content and tool agnostic strategies that can be utilized in classrooms across the educational spectrum to support instruction and student learning!

Within the fourth book of the series of four books, Amplifying Diverse Learning Needs covers Multilingual Learners, Special Education, and Personalized Learning strategies and lessons integrated with a wide variety of EdTech tools that can be used in any classroom setting. By reading through each of these strategies, lessons, and EdTech integrations, you will have a practical toolkit and repository of research-based strategies that educators can use to create lessons that provide a vast array of personalized supports and learning pathways to build skills for ALL learners in all content and skills taught within K-20 education. Enhance student learning by exploring and adopting these proven strategies and EdTech integrations, practiced by educators worldwide shown in this book who provide practical examples of what these look like in their classrooms.

With technology and artificial intelligence playing a growing role in education, traditional co-teaching strategies require an update. The authors offer a revived approach to co-teaching that accounts for pressing topics in today’s classroom. PreK–12 teachers will learn to create collaborative co-teaching partnerships and navigate key co-teaching components—such as lesson design, conflict resolution, and communication with stakeholders—with research-backed tools and strategies.