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5 tips to get started with technology planning
01/30/2019
Topics: Essential Conditions
Whether your school, district or state has a stand-alone educational technology plan or integrates this plan into its cycle of improvement planning, it’s good to start with the essentials. What are the essentials, you may ask? The …
5 tips to get started with technology planning
01/30/2019
Topics: Essential Conditions
Whether your school, district or state has a stand-alone educational technology plan or integrates this plan into its cycle of improvement planning, it’s good to start with the essentials. What are the essentials, you may ask? The…
How moonshot thinking transformed a school
02/23/2017
Topics: 1:1, Education leadership, Essential Conditions
When Fanny Passeport became the schoolwide tech integrator at Mercedes Benz International School in India, she might as well have been aiming for a moon landing.
There was no one in charge of ed tech. Teachers were happy hanging out in their comfort zone. Her task: Shepherd a…
How do you see the changing role of the teacher?
12/01/2016
Topics: Essential Conditions, Standards
When ISTE began to refresh the ISTE Standards for Teachers, we knew we wanted the standards to be a helpful framework…
Learning by Design: The idea that moved a district
04/11/2016
Topics: Assessment, Essential Conditions, Personalized Learning
This is an updated version of a post that published on Nov. 20, 2015.
You could say Elisa Carlson became the director of instruction, curriculum and innovation at Surrey Schools in Canada at the worst possible time. But in the long run, it turned out to be just the…
Are you ready to lead educators through transformation?
12/16/2015
Topics: Essential Conditions
This is an updated version of a post that appeared on June 23, 2014.
When the ground keeps shifting beneath your feet and the path ahead looks different every day, it’s difficult to know just where you’re headed — or how to help others get there. Yet this is exactly…
PDK/Gallup poll results support the need for digital age professional learning
08/27/2015
Topics: Education leadership, Essential Conditions
Every year for the last 47 years, PDK and Gallup have surveyed Americans about their attitudes toward public schools. The poll is the longest-running survey of the nation’s views on schools in history. The results are always eye-opening, and this year was no exception.
The…
Keep ISTE 2015 going all year!
08/04/2015
Topics: Education leadership, Essential Conditions, ISTE Conference & Expo, Standards
The energy. The camaraderie. The learning. The ideas. So many ideas.
As anyone who has attended the ISTE Conference & Expo can tell you, the passion and energy of the event is contagious. While there, it’s easy to get hooked on the feeling – imagining all the things you…
Is your school Future Ready?
06/29/2015
Topics: Advocacy, Education leadership, Essential Conditions, ISTE Conference & Expo, professional learning
Simply signing the Future Ready pledge doesn’t mean you’ve become a paragon of digital learning. It does mean that you have committed to this direction. That was the message Richard Culatta, director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Education Technology, delivered during a…
Become a digital learning ninja in five easy steps
03/13/2015
Topics: Augmented reality, Essential Conditions, Flipped learning, Makerspaces, Personalized Learning, Project-based learning, Standards
The grassroots effort that is Digital Learning Day started as a way to spread innovative practices and ensure that all students have access to high-quality digital learning opportunities, no matter where they live.…