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Interview: How Wyoming is reimagining edtech professional learning
02/27/2020
Topics: Advocacy and funding, ISTE Certification, professional learning
State leaders, including Wyoming’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow, are learning that access to technology alone doesn’t guarantee improved pedagogy. Access must be matched by efforts…
Bring History and Civics to Life
Topics: Curriculum, Education leadership, professional learning
Lessons and Strategies to Cultivate Informed, Empathetic Citizens
By Karalee Wong Nakatsuka and Laurel Aguilar-Kirchhoff
ISBN: 9781564849359
Published: November 2022
Length: 184 pages
Embed the learning sciences into professional learning
06/05/2019
Topics: Course of Mind, Learning sciences, professional learning
Have you ever been to a professional learning (PL) session and loved the ideas presented but left thinking, “There is already too much on my plate. How am I ever going to implement this?” As educators we…
Create PD Webinars That Engage Educators
12/01/2021
Topics: ISTE Expert Webinars, Professional development, professional learning
Rose loved the idea of attending webinars, or online professional development presentations. If she watched them live, she could chat with other participants while hearing about new content from national experts. If not, she could tune in to the archived version, anytime, while exercising, doing…
5 ways to break through leadership barriers
06/03/2020
Topics: professional learning
Desiree Alexander knows firsthand the barriers that people of color face in breaking into areas that have been traditionally white and male. As a black woman and a former instructional technology supervisor in a large school district in Louisiana, people would approach one of her white male…
Customize learning with Google Forms
08/31/2018
Topics: Advocacy, Assessment, Corporate innovation, Education leadership, Personalized Learning, professional learning, Standards
We know that students do not all learn the same way. Some need a great deal of repetition to learn new material while others can see it once and have it down. Some need absolute quiet to learn while others feel uncomfortable with too much stillness. One might prefer reading while another…
Show students all the possibilities
06/26/2018
Topics: ISTE Conference & Expo, professional learning
Nadia Lopez went to college to become a nurse. But things change, and she instead worked in the private sector for Verizon before becoming an educator.
It was that somewhat twisty path that she says helped her develop a holistic approach to how she sees the world – for…
Rethink school to create an innovation ecosystem
06/25/2018
Topics: ISTE Conference & Expo, professional learning
All educators want to create experiences that allow students to use their strengths, do work that makes an impact and become their best selves. You could even say these ideas are the universal teacher vision.
But as educator Katie Martin discovered, it’s hard for teachers…
Is technology ruining kids?
06/24/2018
Topics: ISTE Conference & Expo, professional learning
They have trouble concentrating in class. They’d rather Google an answer than memorize it. Their focus constantly shifts from one thing to another so fast it’s hard for adults to keep up.
While it’s easy to label these traits as problematic, David Eagleman sees them differently…
Mash-up 101: Let students practice creativity
06/23/2018
Topics: ISTE Conference & Expo, professional learning
Neuroscientist and author David Eagleman doesn’t waver in his belief that creativity can be taught. Just the opposite. He says creativity is the most important thing we derive from education because it provides the courage and the skill set to solve new problems.
“Creativity is a skill…