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Standards Spotlight: Knowing what to solve opens doors to discovery
03/22/2019
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Innovation leads to progress in industry as well as in education. Steve Jobs suggests that “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Considering the great impact of innovation and reflecting…
Teaching for technological fluency
03/22/2019
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Have you ever been in a situation where you assign a task involving some type of technology to your students and the first thing out of their mouths is, “How do I do that?” I used to take this as a sign that I…
Retirement hasn’t slowed this CS advocate one bit
03/22/2019
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If there’s an initiative to boost computer science in schools, Joe Kmoch – one of ISTE’s longest-serving members – probably has a hand in it.
He helped develop some of the earliest K-12 computer…
Partnerships help leaders meet districtwide priorities for learning
03/22/2019
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As school districts across the globe work to integrate technology into classrooms, we must acknowledge that one approach, one strategy, one tool never fits all. Every district – whether it’s urban or rural…
Global Focus: Russian educators develop digital competencies based on the ISTE Standards
03/22/2019
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Computers have been used in Russian schools since the 1980s, first as curious machines that helped computer science teachers explain how information is stored and processed, and then as tools students…
Innovate, iterate, educate: Small ideas make the biggest difference
03/22/2019
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Most teachers saw a bunch of hooligans with behavioral problems. But Bijal Damani saw something different: a group of brilliant teenagers bursting with energy, trapped within the confines of the…
Being the change we seek: How diverse voices strengthen schools
03/22/2019
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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
Diversity and equity are…
Learning how to learn
12/19/2018
Topics: Learning sciences
If the digital age has taught us anything, it’s that everything we know is subject to change. No matter what field you work in, today’s best practices could be tomorrow’s bad habits. Fads flare up and fade out. Long accepted facts become debunked myths.
As teachers grapple with…
Innovative Designer standard opens the door to students' imaginative, creative energy
12/28/2018
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“The world no longer cares how much you know; the world cares about what you can do with what you know.”
– Tony Wagner, Innovation Education Fellow,
Harvard, 2012
When ISTE released the new…
She's passionate about amplifying student voice
12/28/2018
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An ambassador for student voice, Marialice B.F.X. Curran is the founder of the Digital Citizenship Institute and the Digital Citizenship Summit who has made it her mission to put students at the center of the global conversation about digital media.
Curran’s career began as a middle…