ISTE and Capstone Collaborate on Children’s Books Championing Digital Citizenship
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Capstone, an progressive studying firm merging kids’s content material with easy-to-use edtech instruments for Okay-5 lecture rooms, libraries and properties, proclaims a licensing settlement with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), an training nonprofit that helps the usage of know-how to speed up innovation in training, to publish a group of kids’s books selling digital citizenship consciousness and the constructive and inventive use of know-how and digital instruments. The license contains world rights for print and digital books, with ISTE offering supplemental assets supported by the ISTE Standards, a framework for utilizing know-how to help studying.
“We’re thrilled to partner on this project with ISTE, connecting their subject matter experts and research-based best practices on technology use in schools with Capstone’s delightful, engaging storytelling for young readers. Our collaboration gives educators an accessible way to start a positive dialogue around digital citizenship, creative use of technology, and our global connection—all knowledge kids need to help prepare them to confidently navigate the digital landscape,” mentioned Beth Brezenoff, Capstone VP of Publishing.
The first title debuting within the ISTE Young Innovators assortment, Sonia’s Digital World (pub 8/1/23), is written by award-winning librarian Shannon McClintock Miller, an ISTE Making IT Happen Award recipient, Future Ready Librarians spokesperson, Follett thought chief, and AASL Leadership Luminary social media celebrity. The image e-book follows the characters on a digital path as they chat, create and play collectively, and make discoveries and connections with digital instruments. Preview an advance copy of the e-book at: bit.ly/SoniasDigitalWorldARC.
“We’re excited to partner with Capstone to provide young learners with fun, engaging books to help them learn to thrive in today’s digital world. The support materials from ISTE that accompany the books will help teachers reinforce important topics like using technology to create and problem solve as well as what it means to be an empowered digital citizen,” mentioned Richard Culatta, CEO of ISTE and ASCD.
A e-book launch for Sonia’s Digital World will happen at ISTELive 23, June 25-28 in Philadelphia. Forthcoming titles within the ISTE Young Innovators assortment embrace Exploring AI, an in-depth take a look at the rising AI revolution (pub 1/1/24), and Cyber Sleuths, a middle-grade chapter e-book sequence with characters fixing misinformation mysteries (pub 8/1/24).
About ISTE
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is a nonprofit group that works with the worldwide training group to speed up innovation in training by way of the sensible use of know-how. ISTE units a daring imaginative and prescient for training transformation by way of the ISTE Standards, a framework for rethinking training and creating progressive studying experiences. ISTE hosts ISTELive, one of many world’s most influential training occasions, and presents a wealth {of professional} studying alternatives targeted on innovation in training.
About Capstone
Capstone is a number one studying firm of Okay-5 digital options, kids’s books, and literacy applications for college libraries, lecture rooms, and at house studying together with the award-winning PebbleGo™ analysis database. Capstone has a ardour for uplifting studying and mental curiosity. The infinite number of learners deserve books and academic assets that replicate them—their pursuits, their skills, their cultures, their communities—and encourage them to be curious and knowledgeable in regards to the world round them. As a creator of content material for youngsters, Capstone embraces the accountability to have a good time and share the various voices and views of our readers and communities. #LearningIsForEveryone CapstonePub.com
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