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What about COVID-19? A letter to the ISTE community
03/14/2020
Topics: coronavirus
As we navigate the impact of COVID-19 in our communities and across the field, I am sharing updates, resources and reflections from the ISTE/EdSurge team.
The gravity of this moment cannot be…
School leaders: Have you mastered social media?
02/14/2019
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It’s an exchange that frustrates parents worldwide:
“What did you learn at school today?”
“Nothing.”
This stalled conversation is being phased out in many school districts, where parents get daily updates from educators on Twitter,…
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 …
9 tips for a robust discussion on student data privacy
01/28/2019
Topics: Online safety & security, Technology infrastructure
Student data privacy is an important topic but a complicated one, and therefore school leaders often find it difficult to talk about with parents and students about measures they can take to protect personal information. Fraught government acronyms like FERPA, COPPA, PPRA, SOPIPA and IDEA,…
The 10 best edtech posts of 2018
12/31/2018
Topics: Coding & robotics, Digital Citizenship, Tools
What do educators love to read about? Judging from the most popular posts that appeared on the ISTE Blog in 2018, they are looking for ideas and strategies for…
Five inspiring EdTekTalks
08/15/2014
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Harvard researchers spent six years studying innovative entrepreneurs to find out how their creative processes work. What they found was that the number one skill all innovators practice regularly is connecting across a variety of disciplines. In other words, innovators are people who cross-…
Edcamps are redefining professional learning
01/09/2019
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From Portland to Pittsburgh, Seattle to Stockholm, Abu Dhabi to Atlanta, and in hundreds of towns and cities around the globe, authentic professional learning is energizing educators. Edcamps — participatory, teacher-driven professional learning events…
Liven up PD with a Digital Skills Workshop
01/23/2015
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ISTE members are evangelists for integrating technology into education. Most are early adopters who intuitively understand that students need to develop digital literacy skills to emerge as critical thinkers prepared to enter evolving careers. Yet many are unintentional lone rangers, fighting…
How to develop teacher leadership in your school
07/20/2015
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Emily Davis was a no-limits kind of middle school Spanish teacher. She held the title “teacher” — not “superintendent” or “principal” — but that didn’t stop her from affecting education policy at the nation’s highest levels.
Davis, who’s from St. Augustine, Florida, is just…
What if digital age teachers were matched with forward-thinking schools?
08/28/2015
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Mia Kim Williams had an aha moment when three somewhat disparate events in her life converged and an idea was born.
What if preservice teachers who had been exposed to tech integration best practices in their teacher preparation programs could be matched with schools…