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What Works: Students’ smartphones are centerpiece in debate on privacy
03/28/2020
Topics: data privacy, ISTE Standards for Students
To learn about the Bill of Rights and the right to privacy, civics teacher Katrina Traylor Rice asks her students to go beyond reading primary-source documents. She actually has them take out their phones and…
Authentic Inclusion: Focus on design rather than accommodation when using classroom technology
03/27/2020
Topics: Assistive technologies, digital equity, Online learning, UDL
Educator Chris Bugaj remembers when his daughter was learning about insects and the environment as a second grader. One day, the assistant principal came to school dressed in a beekeeper’s outfit. He told the…
Member Voices: Personalize professional learning gives teachers choice, empowerment
03/28/2020
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All educators have been there.
You walk into a meeting and see a stranger at the front of the room. Someone else says, “Welcome to mandatory training.” You look at the agenda and see the topic is…
ISTE in Action: We’re ramping up for the Equity Action Forum
03/28/2020
Topics: ISTE Equity Forum
This summer, we’ll be hosting the second annual Equity Action Forum at the ISTE Conference & Expo. This is your chance to hear from change-makers, help identify equity issues in education and become part…
The five pillars of edtech procurement
12/25/2019
Topics: Procurement
As educators rethink how they make technology decisions, these are the critical factors to consider
You never know what you might find in a school closet. Old floppy disks. Mimeograph paper. Textbooks from the 1970s.
What Wiley Brazier V discovered when…
From discord to civil discourse: The human side of digital citizenship
12/24/2019
Topics: #DigCitCommit, Digital & media literacy, Digital Citizenship
Gun violence, climate change, immigration, abortion. There seems to be no end to the number of divisive issues that are causing people from all walks of life to lash out in angry ways.
It’s not…
Using the ISTE Standards for Education Leaders to Guide System-Level Decisions
12/24/2019
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As a district leader for Arlington Public Schools, I have a somewhat wonky title that barely fits on a business card. I’m an instructional technology integration analyst and I serve as the liaison between the…
Member Profile: Wiley Brazier V uses technology to help students soar
12/24/2019
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Many of the disadvantaged students in Wiley Brazier V’s hometown have never traveled beyond the city limits. But when he opens the doors to his new K-12 charter school at the Baton Rouge Metro Airport in…
What Works: Virtual safaris bring the wilds of Africa to the classroom
12/24/2019
Topics: Global Collaborator, ISTE Standards for Students
Every year, Stacey Moore’s third graders in Virginia Beach, Virginia, are transported to Africa where they ride along with a naturalist on safari.
It all happens virtually via WildEarth Kids and…
Interview: Marina Umaschi Bers on teaching children to code
12/24/2019
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It’s not every day that a book focused on preschool and kindergarten children dives into ways to teach them to be producers rather than mere consumers of technology. But Marina Umaschi Bers, Ph.D.,…