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Welcome to ISTE 2015! Take a tour of the convention center
06/26/2015
Topics: ISTE Conference & Expo
ISTE 2015 is finally here! If you're joining us in Philadelphia for the conference, it's going to be a busy week. You'Il meet new people who share your passion for using ed tech to transform learning, discover all the latest and greatest classroom tools and tips, and connect with experts who can…
Overcoming the barriers to innovation
06/05/2015
Topics: Education leadership
In today’s flurry of technological advancement, the only way to keep up is to innovate. But as forward-thinking education leaders quickly learn, the path to change is littered with roadblocks.
While the specific barriers to tech integration may be unique to each…
Flip your classroom with instructional screencasts
04/15/2015
Topics: Flipped learning, Tools, Video
" "Sometimes I wish I could record myself teaching in September, then play it back to students in March so they can remember all the things they forgot," " said one veteran teacher I know with an exasperated sigh. She was looking for a way to provide small-group remediation while teaching new…
What if you flipped a school?
04/08/2015
Topics: Video
Taking calculated risks is not the norm in most schools. Yet where there is risk, there is often great reward. That was our mindset in 2010, when the staff at Clintondale High School in Michigan realized we had to do something to lift our students who were struggling mightily. At that time, 52…
Things to consider before downloading that app
04/02/2015
Topics: Technology infrastructure
Say you're an elementary math teacher and you've just discovered the perfect app for helping your students understand fractions. It's simple to use, available across devices and, best of all, it's free. You want to download it immediately to your class set of iPads, right? Well, not so…
Super-Awesome Sylvia's Arduino heartbeat pendant
02/13/2015
Topics: Makerspaces, STEM & STEAM, Video
Super-Awesome Sylvia started making and tinkering when she was 7, and like a lot of kids, she loves to try new things. One year after visiting a nearby Maker Faire, she and her dad were inspired to create a web show about making.
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Flipped classroom 101
02/05/2015
Topics: Flipped learning
There's a lot of talk about the flipped classroom in education circles these days, but what it boils down to is this: Flipped learning is a teaching technique that uses video assets as the primary means of delivering direct instruction to an individual — rather than lecturing to a group — so you…
Documenting science with music videos
01/30/2015
Topics: Digital storytelling, Video
It’s generally a problem when students are dancing in a creek during science class. But not for middle school science teacher Brian Ravizza. He encouraged his students to sing and dance as part of a lesson where students created a music video to document their understanding of arthropods.…
Sitka's Fab Lab gives students real-world skills
01/16/2015
Topics: Coding & robotics, Computational Thinking, Digital Citizenship, Digital storytelling, Literacies, Makerspaces, professional learning, STEM & STEAM
To what extent and in what ways should digital technologies change career and technical education (CTE) programs in manufacturing? CTE teachers and administrators have been dealing with this question for decades, but recent changes in 3D design software and modern tooling, such as 3D…
ISTE Standards: Preparing students for the digital age
01/09/2015
Topics: Standards
Students expect technology to be embedded in their learning process. Yet understanding what technology integration is and recognizing what it actually looks like are two different things. To truly prepare kids for success in a digital world, educators need a common language for sharing ideas…