May 1,2013
1 The 6 Cs for Using SocialMedia During Times of Grief
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April 29,2013
The new DigitalLearning Now!Whitepaper by JohnBailey, Carri Schneider,and Tom Vander Arkconcludes that today’sschool finance systemwas not createdwith the flexibilityneeded to support thewave of educationalinnovations explodingin schools.
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April 29,2013
The “EveryoneOn” public awarenesscampaign launched by theConnect2Compete program will offerconsumers access to the followingprograms:
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April 29,2013
An informal surveyconducted by Lexia Learningat the 2013 ASCD Conferencerevealed concern fromeducators about theirschools’ preparedness for thepending standards:
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April 29,2013
Partnerpedia, an enterprise mobilityvendor, released findings from theirEducation Mobility Survey based onan informal poll of FETC attendees.
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April 29,2013
CommonSense Medialaunched the1-to-1 EssentialsProgram to serveas a roadmap forschools launching a 1-to-1 program, whetherpilot program or whole-district initiative.
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April 29,2013
More than three yearsin the making, the NextGeneration ScienceStandards are here.
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April 29,2013
This interactive mapreveals state profileratings according to the2012 Digital LearningReport Card.
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April 29,2013
Ten teams of middle and highschool students were namedwinners of the Verizon InnovativeApp Challenge, which challengedstudents to design apps thatprovide real-world solutions forissues in their communities.
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April 24,2013
Gale, partof CengageLearning, hasannouncedplans tounify its extensive digital humanitiescollections on one platform, creatingan online, curated, primary source andliterary collection.
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April 23,2013
Can it be only a year since Tech & Learning sported this“Flipped” cover?
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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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April 23,2013
Gaggle has taken root and is growing here at JamesWeldon Johnson College Prep Middle School.
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April 23,2013
Microsoft OfficeStandard2013 andMicrosoft OfficeProfessional2013 are twotools for achieving learninggoals.
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April 23,2013
“Master the Core” is today’sbattle cry and with anarmy of requirementsout there, teachers arealways on the prowl forsome much-neededreinforcements.
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April 23,2013
Britannica School is a new onlineinformation solution designed forclassrooms in grades preK-12 thatprovides multimedia resources forlessons, lesson planning, curriculumsupport, student and teacher research,and homework help.
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April 23,2013
The TI-Nspire iPad app from TexasInstruments (TI) can teach high schoolstudents the most difficult high school mathconcepts using an inviting and engagingformat.
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March 28,2013
This was the 40th gathering for this long-running workshopdevoted to sharing best practices in education technology.
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March 28,2013
Symantec will donate more than $1 million in grantfunding to education-focused initiatives.
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March 28,2013
Many years later, educators nowhave at their disposal the mostpowerful tools for developing andmaintaining professional learningnetworks in history.
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March 28,2013
The Partnership for Assessmentof Readiness for College andCareers (PARCC) announced anew planning tool and guidancefor schools to help them getready for new assessments in the2014-2015 school year.
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March 28,2013
74%of teachers say:“Education is aStudent-Motivator”
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March 28,2013
Just about every new product to hit the edtech space is touting that it is “aligned with Common Core standards” as a prime feature. But howcan schools be sure these companies aren’t just finessing existing features to fit broad CCCS definitions?
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March 28,2013
Epson is asking K-12 and post-secondary educators to share their top five benefits ofusing document cameras in the classroom for a chance to win one of four Epson DC-20document cameras during the “Epson Document Camera in the Classroom Contest.”
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March 28,2013
There is a drastic change underway in how we buy and usehardware and software in the classroom.
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March 28,2013
www.pbs.org/americaresponds/emergencypreparedness.html
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March 28,2013
Did you miss any of the sessionswe Livestreamed from Tech ForumAtlanta?
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March 28,2013
@joycevalenza: Twitter sells yearsof everyone’s old, vanished Tweetsto online marketing companieshttp://bit.ly/A9lGrO
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March 28,2013
Today’s obsession with MOOCs isa reminder of the old forecastingparadigm: in the early stages oftechnology introduction we try tofit new technologies into existingsocial structures in ways thathave become familiar to us.”– Marina Gorbis
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March 28,2013
1 Flipping Your FacultyMeetingsBy flipping the facultymeeting, Nancy Caramanicoshows how formerlyleader-driven meetingstransform into distributedleadership meetings.
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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
Assistive technology (AT) is a hypernym that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitation devices for people with disabilities.
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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
Edvationupdatedthe PD21professionaldevelopmentsolution thatincludes short, self-paced tutorials to helpteachers build foundational technical skillsin spreadsheet and database applications,word processing, Web 2.0 tools, andmultimedia authoring.
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February 28,2013
Teachers must embrace (not just accept)relinquishing control to students. Ifstudents are to “own” their education, theymust be trusted to make decisions—andmistakes—about what and how they learn.
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February 28,2013
Mobile is everywhere:This hardly comes asa surprise, but justabout every session hadsomething to do withmobile learning.
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February 28,2013
What a great time to be writing about educationtechnology.
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February 28,2013
New venue: This was the most obvious improvement of Bett this year.
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February 28,2013
There’s an App for that! From the opening “shootout” to theclosing session, thousands of apps were suggested—enough tofill every need and create some new needs.
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February 27,2013
This Web siteintroducesstudents tothe secretlanguage ofEdgar AllenPoe, who hidmessages andcryptogramsthroughouthis writings.
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February 27,2013
The New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSELearning Initiative jointly released the NMCHorizon Report > 2013 Higher Education Edition.
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February 27,2013
Nearly 25,000teachers, millionsof students, ArneDuncan, U.S. ChiefTechnology Officer Todd Park, and U.S. Representative GeorgeMiller, joined an online conversation on Digital LearningDay, February 6.
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February 27,2013
@justintarte: “Technology won’treplace teachers...but teacherswho use technology will probablyreplace teachers who do not.”
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February 27,2013
A new report from the JoanGanz Cooney Center at SesameWorkshop and the Games andLearning Publishing Councilidentifies significant barriersfor games developers to enter the school market, such asthe changing policy landscape, a lack of teacher professionaldevelopment, and a need for low-cost, data-rich assessments.
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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 27,2013
Nearly 120 entries have been submitted for the second Follett Challenge, and now contest organizers are calling on the public to crown the Follett Challenge winners.
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February 27,2013
1 Bucket List of OnlineEducation ResourcesIf David Kapuler were startinga new school, here is his wishlist of digital resources.
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February 27,2013
For those districts that haverobust Internet connectionsand the ability to refresh theircomputers every three years,the (PARCC) guidelines willprobably not cause you alarm.
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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 26,2013
What are your big-picturetech goals for yourdistrict?
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February 26,2013
Belkin hasreleased aniPad app thatcombines theconvenienceof a documentcamera with thepower of an interactive whiteboard.
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February 26,2013
What are your big-picturetech goals for yourdistrict?
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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 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 25,2013
Observe4success is a Web-basedobservation and evaluationsoftware tool that is primarilygeared for school administratorsto assess teachers and staff.
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February 25,2013
When we launched Gaggle at JamesWeldon Johnson (JWJ), thetiming was not exactly the mostopportune.
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February 21,2013
The Belkin tablet standsare designed with comfort of use andergonomics in mind.
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February 21,2013
Tales2Go brings thousands of audiobooks,stories, and songs from name brandpublishers and storytellers to desktops,laptops, or Apple mobile devices in theclassroom and beyond, with access forAndroid coming soon.
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February 5,2013
Seems like edtech could be the next “big thing,” considering the amount of attention itreceived this year at the world’s largest electronics extravaganza.
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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
TriCaster 40 is an all-in-one, live production and streaming system that lets you publish live media.
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February 5,2013
U.S. K-12 schools canenter the CDW-Gand DiscoveryEducation’s 11th-annualWin a Wireless LabSweepstakes daily for the chance to win oneof 16 weekly prizes and two grand prize labsvalued at $40,000 each.
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February 5,2013
Will the fear mongering over social media inschools never cease?
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February 5,2013
Do you wish your faculty meetings could be more engaging?
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February 5,2013
The keynote speaker at the 2013IEEE ICCE, Dr. Satwant Kaur, toutedas the “First Lady of EmergingTechnologies,” described to reporterThoran Rodrigues of CBS thefollowing emerging technologiesthat will drive the growth of big data:
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February 5,2013
School reform has been taking placecontinually in America since the1950s.
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February 5,2013
From a study of 44 million contentmatches from more than 9 million studentsconducted by Turnitin.
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February 5,2013
As more schools go digital, what happens to all of the old textbooks? Accordingto a new study by the National Wildlife Federation, almost 40 percent of K-12and higher education schools are storing or throwing away textbooks.
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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 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
1 Digital Content andLearning ManagementThis article details highlightsfrom the SchoolCIO LeadershipSummit, including tips andtakeaways on transitioningschools to digital content.
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February 5,2013
School districts, schools, teams,or individual teachers now havea choice.
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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
Krissy Venosdale @ktvee: Tomorrowput five anonymous notes inyour colleagues’ mailboxes,complimenting them onsomething. Watch what happens.
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February 5,2013
With not enough hours in the day to teach, let alone satisfy the Common Core requirements, it’s hard for teachers to keep up with two major demands on their time—taking on more professional development and learning emerging and existing technology.
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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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February 4,2013
We’re two weeks away from the big show and already the calendar is filled with meetings, sessions, and events that make Bett13 theyear’s biggest event in ICT! With a new location at the Excel Centre, Bett13 should be better than ever.
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