May 1,2013
A belief that effort will make students smarter and more successful – known as ‘growth mindset’--is perhaps the most fundamental foundation of grit, tenacity, and perseverance for learners.
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April 23,2013
So you’re letting your students BYODand it’s going well.
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April 23,2013
Meghan Enga teaches 6th and 7th grade at Banting Middle School in Vancouver, BC. She uses a 3D learning platform called Quest Atlantis (QA).
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April 23,2013
These days many teachers are thinking about flipping their classrooms. Incase you’ve been offline for the last year, flipping a class means taking normalclassroom activities, such as lectures or demonstrations, and substitutingthem for activities that are typically done outside of the classroom.
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April 23,2013
A recent study by the analyst group TFCinfo Associates asked 537 respondents what they look for before purchasing projectors and the results confirm that buyers want more information on Color Brightness. Key replies included:
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April 23,2013
An Arizona school gets new monitors to improve its curricular offerings Challenge: The K-8 Paulden (AZ) Community School has no IT staff and limited administrative support.
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April 23,2013
In the early days of asset management,districts often pieced togetherinventories with Excel spreadsheetsthat had been handed down fromgenerations for whom the mostcomplicated pieces of equipmentwere 3M overhead projectors.
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March 28,2013
More than three million U.S. jobs are unfilled because of a lack of skilled workers. business leaders complain about unfilled positions because there are no suitable candidates.
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March 28,2013
Challenge: With extremely limited funds (this district was second to last in perpupilspending in the state), Esko (MN) Public Schools had to figure out how toboost math scores for 6th-grade students who receive Title 1 funds for reading butnot for math.
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March 28,2013
All of the new accountability can leave many educators feeling like they are poundingsquare peg pedagogy into round hole requirements.
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March 28,2013
Assistive technology (AT) is a hypernym that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitation devices for people with disabilities.
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February 27,2013
Any CTO will tell you it’s important to have handy answers when others ask questions.
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February 27,2013
At Marianapolis Prep School in Thompson,CT, the athletics department wanted help filmingand sharing footage of games with select audiences.
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February 26,2013
Challenge: Memphis CitySchools is working to create avideo library of its classroomteachers using effectivemethods to help all teachersimprove their skills.
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February 26,2013
What are your big-picturetech goals for yourdistrict?
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February 26,2013
What are your big-picturetech goals for yourdistrict?
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February 25,2013
“There are not many new ideas when it comes to technology. Instead, there’s a lot of rebranding,”says Thuan Nguyen, assistant superintendent and chief digital strategy officerfor the Kent (WA) School District.
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February 25,2013
For most T&L stories, we turn to ourreaders for their advice and insight aboutstronger and smarter tech integration.
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February 5,2013
Do you wish your faculty meetings could be more engaging?
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February 5,2013
SchoolCIO checked in with some of the schools and districts we know who’ve allowed students and teachers to bring in their own devices.
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February 5,2013
These days, you’d be hard pressed to find a district that hasn’t installed or upgraded a wireless network. With 1:1 and BYOD becoming more prevalent, wireless networks are pretty much a given.
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February 5,2013
Most T&L readers know the value of social media learning in schools, yet many remain bound by restrictive policies and reluctancefrom their school communities to embrace these tools.
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February 5,2013
According to conservative estimates, kids will play more than 10,000 hours of games by the time they graduate from high school.
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February 5,2013
Game design can be a powerful motivator, bringing together student ideas, problem solving and other important computational thinking skills, such as collaboration and persistence for working on difficult problems.
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February 4,2013
@lifeisabout: Using mobile technology on trips is a great way of recording learning as it happens – & being able to reflect on experiencesafter #bettchat
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February 4,2013
Many parents will find themselves in a debate about phones: can I have one? what sort should it be? how old is old enough? what should I dowith it? and more.
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December 28,2012
In this supplement, you will find many tools to help districts transition to common core standards.
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December 28,2012
I’m a primary source kind of gal, and my coursework at Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science (and ensuing Masters in Library Science) makes me a killer on the Google.
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December 28,2012
As many of us face the challenges of preparing for the Common Core State Standards, schools are searching for digitally advanced technology solutions to play a central role in accelerating skill development, assessing that progress in real-time, and delivering personalized instruction to support student outcomes.
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December 27,2012
At the CIO Leadership Summit last September, hosted by Tech & Learning magazine, MelissaDodd, CIO of Boston Public Schools, noted during an excellent presentation on the state of ITin her district that Massachusetts was the birthplace of American public education.
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December 27,2012
At the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference, twofacilitators shared input from educators in fourstates about the standards and the assistanceneeded to integrate them into schools andclassrooms.
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December 27,2012
Challenge: The California Learning Resource Network(CLRN) evaluates resources for its 10,000 public schoolsto serve as supplemental resources in their classrooms.
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December 27,2012
Below are some of the latest tools for schools to add a Common Core spin to a new orexisting product.
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December 27,2012
Maybe your teachers are asking forit.
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December 19,2012
When the 63 students in your rural school are three hoursaway from the closest large city and have never been to abeach, there’s only one way to let them get a feel for thoseplaces.
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December 19,2012
Nine years ago, the St. Therese Chinese Catholic School wasstruggling to keep its doors open.
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December 19,2012
As the technology director for a high-performing, awardwinningschool district, Julie Bohnenkamp knows she mustdeliver high-quality training to keep students engaged andhelp teachers personalize and differentiate their instruction.
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December 19,2012
In just one year, Huntsville City Schools completelytransformed education for its nearly 25,000 students.
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November 1,2012
The next two years promise to bringsignificant changes to the role technologyplays in classrooms and schools. Withthe growing popularity of BYO and 1:1implementations, the evolution from printtextbooks to digital content, and theadoption of Common Core State Standards supportedby online assessments, there are a number of pressingissues on the minds of K-12 technology leaders andadministrators as they look ahead to the year 2014.
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November 1,2012
Most of us recognize that schools should be helping students learn how to do deep,rich, technology-infused knowledge work that prepares them for future citizenship,college, work, and other life needs.
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November 1,2012
The challenges facing CIOs, ITdirectors, and others responsiblefor planning and maintainingdistrict infrastructure continueto grow under pressure from avariety of factors.
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November 1,2012
Although many of us dislike the term “21st century,”we can all agree that the notion behind it—the needto reform education to meet today’s and tomorrow’slearners—is still valid.
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November 1,2012
What are your big-picturetech goals for yourdistrict?
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November 1,2012
Where are you finding the funds to buildand sustain your programs?
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November 1,2012
You can call it the missing link tothe true integration of technology inschools: teaching the teachers.
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November 1,2012
Our two discussions about digital content and learning management were structured around keyquestions designed to dig into how schools are becoming more digital in the content resourcesavailable to teachers and students.
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November 1,2012
As the presenter at a recent conference punched the “results” button on the technology-usagesurvey on the screen before us, we could all have predicted the result: a vast disconnect betweenthe amount of mobile device usage in school vs. our personal lives—for adults and students alike.
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October 30,2012
WHO: Shannon Kinkead, Title 1 teacher for grades K-2 atBainbridge Elementary School in Indiana.
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October 30,2012
Challenge: The Association of Computer Technology Educators ofMaine (ACTEM) wanted to provide Maine’s schools with namebrandaudio books.
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September 27,2012
Why should students have all the fun when it comes
to learning?
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September 27,2012
Forget “four score and seven years ago”; until the past few years the term “STEM” wasn’t
even part of our nation’s dialogue.
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September 27,2012
What are your big-picture
tech goals?
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September 27,2012
About two weeks ago, I saw the Blog Quote of the Day from Patricia Haughney, stating, “I try
to avoid teacher bashing.
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September 27,2012
Regardless of how it’s implemented,
let’s define blended learning as a
combination of offline and online
learning.
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September 6,2012
The great news on the PD front—at least from the districts who presented at the second School CIO Summit Conference this June—is that we’ve moved far away from the days of drive-by PD in which socalled experts come in once a year to show teachers how to use product X and expect them to begin using it perfectly by the very next day.
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September 6,2012
It’s hard to imagine being told to leave your device at home and to enter a Wi- Fi-free zone for most of your working day.
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September 6,2012
Like many of the inside baseball terms tossed about the edtech space, “virtual” and “blended” learning mean different things to different audiences.
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September 6,2012
When it comes to running a district’s online operations, the general consensus of this working group was not answering the questions “if?” or “why?” go with a cloud-based strategy but “when?” and “how best?”
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September 6,2012
At the SchoolCIO Technology Summit this June, we were devastated to hear that many superintendents still see the CIO job as tech support rather than an integral part of the district.
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September 6,2012
Technology has enabled us to push back the classroom walls and
stretch our virtual arms across the globe to shake hands with
students almost anywhere.
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September 6,2012
For a couple of decades, the
educational technology sector in England
has enjoyed the largesse of various
government officials who were convinced
that it would be beneficial for the economy in
the long term.
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September 6,2012
Yokohama International School
(YIS), located in Yokohama,
Japan (Japan’s second largest
city and right next to Tokyo), is the
second-oldest international school in the world,
founded in 1924.
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September 6,2012
In the last five years, there is
a heightening awareness and interest of
educational technologies among teachers in
Turkey.
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September 6,2012
Educational technology plays a huge role in
classrooms in Singapore.
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September 6,2012
Education
technology in
New Zealand is
rapidly changing
due to the recent
introduction of high-speed broadband Internet
to schools across the country.
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September 6,2012
The Global Ed program at the Springside/
Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia is
composed of 5th- and 6th-grade girls who
meet at lunch and recess to work on various
iEARN projects.
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September 6,2012
What impact
are virtual
and blended
solutions
having on
the way
students learn and teachers grow
professionally?
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July 26,2012
One conversation I found most compelling was about educators thinking like
entrepreneurs or startups— realizing they are the idea people bringing their passion
to the classroom.
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July 26,2012
They’ve got the conference program iOS
app right.
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July 26,2012
Teachers, we’ve all been there: you take a couple of days off from the classroom, fly to another city,
pick up your conference program brimming with great topics and speakers, and then promptly get
overwhelmed when you realize that you can’t possibly go to every session you want.
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July 26,2012
At the recent Tweetup at ISTE 2012,
I had the opportunity to meet with the
faces behind the minds I interact with
throughout the year.
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July 26,2012
One of the toughest things I find
about packing for conferences
and events like the ISTE 2012 is
figuring out what technology tools
I need/want to bring.
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July 25,2012
As in many states, students in Illinois are required to receive
a certain number of hours of instruction each year dedicated
to Internet Safety.
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July 25,2012
Whether your state
administrators have asked you
to tie teacher pay into student
scores on standardized tests
or they just want you to
revamp the way you assess
your instructional staff, chances are your district
is well on its way to figuring out how to do it.
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June 29,2012
In these times of shrinking school budgets, everyone is looking for funds to help their school sustain just the basic needs
for maximizing student achievement.
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June 29,2012
As a result of our economic crisis, school districts are required to
think more strategically about money than ever before.
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June 29,2012
The Alvarado ISD in Texas had a challenge: getting the community connected.
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June 29,2012
From knowing where every piece of
equipment is located to the moment a
software license expires, the benefits of
asset management software are seemingly
endless.
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June 28,2012
At the dawn of the Internet
era, Congress set out to avert a
digital divide between rich and
poor students.
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June 28,2012
Challenge: Leaders at California’s Woodland Joint Unified School
District needed to save money as much as they needed to upgrade
technology.
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June 28,2012
The U.S. Department of Education and U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
announced in April that $133 million from the
2012 Race to the Top fund will be available
for continued investments in state-level,
comprehensive early education reform.
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June 28,2012
Most schools wants to do their
part to save resources — both for
the environment and for shrinking
budgets.
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May 30,2012
It’s hard to go a day without
seeing an article about the
Common Core standards (www.
corestandards.org).
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May 30,2012
Streaming video and digital textbooks in the classroom. Stronger
assessments through technology.
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May 30,2012
From New Jersey to Ohio to Washington,
districts are preparing for online testing.
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May 30,2012
In my own PLN, one of us discovers an infographic relevant to learning or libraries or research and it’s all over the
edtech/library world in a matter of minutes.
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May 30,2012
IEP Checklist (FREE): This is a great tool to have at
your fingertips for tracking IEP goals for your students.
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May 30,2012
We know standardized testing is a challenge. But what’s the solution?
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May 30,2012
Challenge: At the end of 2005-06, United D.D. Hacher Elementary
School was charged with helping more of the fifth grade—made up
of mostly English Language Learners—pass the high-stakes Texas
Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.
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May 30,2012
“Be visible and accessible.
As my grandma used to
say, ‘Be nice to everyone you
meet.’
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May 30,2012
What are your big-picture
tech goals?
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May 30,2012
In August 2010, my school district started
using Google Apps for Education.
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May 1,2012
Audio-visual technology—or the use of sound and pictures to convey information—has come a long way in a short time.
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April 27,2012
Teachers from around the world have adopted the flipped classroom model and
are using it to teach a variety of courses to students of all ages.
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April 27,2012
I’ve been working on our school’s technology budget for next year, so I’m looking at our
“needs” and “wants” closely, knowing items in both categories will be cut due to dwindling
budgets that I’m sure most districts are well acquainted with.
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March 29,2012
One of my favorite TED talks is Barry Schwartz’ “The Paradox of Choice.”
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March 28,2012
Digital content, streaming media,
and on-demand learning
resources are cascading into
schools, replacing a tired
generation of antiquated
tools and practices.
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March 27,2012
Problem: How can we make sure all areas are covered?
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