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Edtech Students Help K-12 Educators With Online Teaching During Pandemic
07/07/2020
Topics: ISTE Certification, ISTE Standards for Educators, Online learning
When the coronavirus pandemic hit and schools closed, students in Sarah Schroeder’s educational technology classes at the University of Cincinnati suddenly…
Standards Spotlight: ISTE Learner standard provides a road map to lifelong scholarship
09/25/2019
Topics: ISTE Standards for Educators
Like most educators, I’m a learner first. I want to know all there is to know about teaching to best meet the needs of my students. That’s why I went to college for 15 years to gain my teaching qualifications,…
Sylvia Fojo: A World Without Borders Is a Boon for Educator Learning
09/21/2022
Topics: Global collaboration, ISTE Standards for Educators
There’s never been a more exciting time to be an educator! Thanks to technology, we live in an interconnected world that gives us immediate access to whatever we’re looking for. In this “world without borders…
Embed digital citizenship in all subject areas
09/21/2018
Topics: Digital Citizenship, ISTE Standards for Educators, ISTE Standards for Students
The ISTE Standards for Educators encourage teachers to “create experiences for learners to make positive, socially responsible contributions and exhibit empathetic behavior online that build relationships and community.” As a result of these learning experiences, the ISTE Standards for Students…
Strengthen school vision with technology
10/03/2019
Topics: ISTE Standards, ISTE Standards for Educators
Schools are complicated places. We have mission statements and visions, district points of pride and learning objectives, new initiatives, variable funding and shifting enrollment. All of this is enough to make educators’ heads spin.
So, what can be done? There are some who opt to wait…
Create and share your own videos and podcasts
09/21/2019
Topics: ISTE Standards for Educators, podcasting, Tools, Video
The explosion of teacher-created openly licensed educational resources, also known as open educational resources or OER, has transformed K-12 learning materials. No longer are educators tied to commercially produced curricula. Now they can use an idea developed by a teacher in another state or…