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You don't have to be a scientist to incorporate STEM
12/18/2014
Topics: Mobile learning, Robotics, Standards, STEM & STEAM
Sara Hunter was recognized as a 2013 ISTE Emerging Leader. Nominations for 2015 awards are open now through Feb. 2015. Amazing educators are encouraged to apply!
Most people are…
Time to redesign curriculum for the digital age
12/03/2014
Topics: Curriculum, Standards
In too many schools, technology integration has come to mean retrofitting new technology to outdated curriculum. Digital tools are tacked onto lessons, simply replacing functions that were once performed with traditional tools, such as pen and paper.
There's a wide gulf between…
Simulation game helps students understand traumatic brain injury
11/07/2014
Topics: Gamification, Gaming, Standards
From a tackle in a football game to a fall on an icy sidewalk or a car accident, the dangers of traumatic brain injury are real and sometimes even fatal. To help educate students about traumatic brain injury and heighten their awareness and ability to make informed decisions,…
Know the ISTE Standards for Administrators: Lead with vision
10/31/2014
Topics: Education leadership, Standards
ISTE Standards for Administrators 1: Visionary leadership
Sometimes it's hard to even remember the days when easy, instant access to a world of information wasn't available to…
Get students talking with digital tools!
10/27/2014
Topics: Standards
Both the Common Core and ISTE Standards expect students to demonstrate oral communication skills as early as kindergarten. But while the Common Core's…
The missing Gallup question: How are schools using technology?
08/22/2014
Topics: Standards
The release of the 46th Annual PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools reveals a high level of public engagement in the issues surrounding public education. Americans are demonstrating greater levels of…
5 tips for making the shift to personalized learning
08/12/2014
Topics: Personalized Learning, Standards
The idea that school should focus on the learners might seem like a no-brainer. After all, helping people learn is the whole point of education, isn't it?
Of course, it's more complicated than that. The U.S. education system was based on and most teachers and administrators have been…
Know the ISTE StandardsT 3: Model digital age learning
07/24/2014
Topics: Standards
ISTE Standards for Teachers 3: Model digital age work and learning.
There are a lot of good things about…
Put me in, coach! I'm ready to teach with technology
07/21/2014
These days, ed tech coaches are in high demand, thanks in part to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which require educators to integrate technology into the classroom. Much like the…
Connect English learners to science with online projects
07/21/2014
Topics: Assistive and adaptive technologies, Augmented reality, Online learning, Project-based learning, Standards, STEM & STEAM, Tools
For many of us, learning science in school meant opening worn textbooks, watching projector slides in a stuffy classroom and dissecting rats once you got to eighth grade. Did you ever ask yourself, "How is this relevant? How can I take this knowledge, go out into the world and use…