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Edtech playground: Helping teachers choose better tools
04/03/2018
Topics: Education leadership
A virtual reality headset can take students on an immersive journey to another world. History students can tour ancient Rome, science students can travel to another biome, and biology students can explore the inside of the human body.
But no matter how cool it is, if that $3,…
Amy Tran Is Creating the School of Tomorrow
02/23/2021
Topics: Education leadership
In a corner of their high school fabrication lab, Amy Tran’s students are building a model of London. But this isn’t just any London.
It’s a futuristic smart city where garbage-collecting robots use sensors to navigate the streets, smart lights turn on and…
Building parent capacity to support student success
02/07/2018
Topics: Education leadership, Parent engagement
When parents fill out registration forms for Sigler Elementary, they sometimes write in “Sigler Nation” instead. Students print it across the tops of their papers. Teachers hashtag it on Twitter.
In just a year,…
Infographic: How to become a connected educator
01/03/2018
Topics: Education leadership, professional learning
Within the silo of a school or classroom, it’s difficult to find time for meaningful conversations about what works and why.
By reaching beyond school walls and connecting with colleagues from around the globe, many educators have discovered vibrant…
Weigh in on the ISTE Standards for Administrators
12/18/2017
Topics: Assistive and adaptive technologies, Augmented reality, Coding & robotics, Computational Thinking, Digital Citizenship, Digital storytelling, Education leadership, Gamification, Gaming, Literacies, Makerspaces, Personalized Learning, professional learning, Project-based learning, Robotics, STEM & STEAM
“Leaders get people moving. They energize and mobilize. They take people and organizations to places they have never…
WHAT WORKS: Teaching digital citizenship without devices
12/15/2017
Topics: Advocacy, Digital Citizenship, Education leadership
Over the summer, a group of preteens attended a camp to learn how to communicate online. They explored computational thinking concepts, practiced using social media and developed their media literacy skills.
And they did it all without a lick of technology.
Instead, they put on…
STANDARDS SPOTLIGHT: Tools to support the ISTE Standards for Educators
12/15/2017
Topics: Education leadership
The ISTE Standards for Educators challenge teachers to become leaders, creators and facilitators of dynamic or transformative student learning. What I love most about the new standards is that they view educators as…
5 ways every educator can lead change
11/15/2017
Topics: 1:1, BYOD, Coding & robotics, Computational Thinking, Curriculum, Education leadership, Flipped learning, Literacies, Mobile learning, professional learning
Educational technology has long been considered a subset among a host of education topics. That’s no longer the case, says educator Mark Gura, who believes a powerful reversal is happening – a reversal that’s creating a new reality in schools worldwide. |…
Preparing students for jobs that don't exist
11/22/2019
Topics: Artificial intelligence, Education leadership, STEM & STEAM
Imagine a world where parents can genetically design and modify their own children.
Think it’s far-fetched? The cost of sequencing our personal genome is dropping, and genome editing technologies are growing more accessible. It could become a reality within the next decade or so.
…
Online learning helps schools overcome distance, weather, war and pandemics
06/14/2017
Topics: Curriculum, Education leadership, Online learning, professional learning, Technology infrastructure, Tools
ISTE members are familiar with online learning. After all, various combinations of online learning, mobile learning and traditional classroom learning – known as blended learning – are found in almost every school these days, if not every classroom.
Whether it involves using Khan…