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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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
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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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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 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 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
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
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
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 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
Krissy Venosdale @ktvee: Tomorrowput five anonymous notes inyour colleagues’ mailboxes,complimenting them onsomething. Watch what happens.
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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
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
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 4,2013
Attempting to experience all of Bett is a hopeless task. But you can make the best use of your time by picking priorities beforehand.
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January 4,2013
We talk a lot about the edtechchallenges at the classroomand district levels.
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December 28,2012
The U.S. Department ofEducation announcedthat 16 applicants—representing 55 schooldistricts across 11 statesand D.C.—have won the2012 Race to the TopDistrict competition.
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December 28,2012
Imagine if students were asmotivated to do their schoolworkas they are to beat Halo 4.—Lisa Nielsen
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December 28,2012
Math League: Whole Numbers
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December 28,2012
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at SesameWorkshop and E-Line Media announced thesponsors and partners for the 2013 NationalSTEM Video Game Challenge.
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December 28,2012
Epiced.org, a U.S. Department of Education-supported onlinecommunity of practice, launched a School/District Locator.This visual database tool creates networking opportunities forschools and districts engaged in digital learning transitions.
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December 28,2012
It’s that time of year again when I get to write my favorite post.
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December 28,2012
This past fall, Tech & Learning celebrated the 10th anniversary of its popular professionaldevelopment event for school leaders, Tech Forum.
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December 28,2012
@rmbyrne: Six Apps StudentsCan Use to Create Quick AudioRecordings http://ow.ly/fAQK0
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November 1,2012
The 2012 Survey of K-12 Educators on Social Networking, Online Communities, and Web 2.0 Tools set out to update findings from a 2009 survey conducted with teachers, principals, and school librarians to understand awareness, participation, and perceptions of social networking sites, online communities, and contentsharing tools.
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November 1,2012
The five criteria that ChallengeSuccess brings to schoolsattempt to modernize theobsolete system in placetoday: scheduling, projectbasedlearning, alternativeassessment, climate of care, andparent education.- Tina Barseghian
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November 1,2012
Skype in the classroom has added more partners toits free network: NASA’s Digital Learning Network,The National Museum of the Royal Navy and HMSVictory, British Council, Woodland Trust, VerbalizeIt,Action Aid, Education through Expeditionand Choose2Matter.
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November 1,2012
1 10 Sites for Teachingor Learning a ForeignLanguage
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November 1,2012
@willrich45: “The absence ofthe teacher in the presenceof the Internet can become apedagogical tool.” Sugata Mitrahttp://bit.ly/LJhv0X
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November 1,2012
AT&T has expanded its $250 million commitment to its AT&T Aspire program,which aims to tackle the high school dropout crisis by providing students withone million hours of mentoring through its Aspire Mentoring Academy.
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November 1,2012
The FollettChallenge, whichawarded $100,000worth of productsand services to sixK-12 schools a yearago, is returningwith the prizemoney doubledand a new focus looking to reward top-notch educators who arealigning their curricula to teach 21st-century learning skills.
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September 28,2012
The PASCO STEM Educator Awards
recognize five educators with
a prize totaling approximately
$4,500, which includes a $1,000
cash award, a $2,000 certificate
for PASCO products to further
support their STEM program, and
up to $1,500 for travel expenses
to attend the NSTA national
conference, where they will be
recognized at the NSTA Awards Banquet.
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September 27,2012
1 Help for Educators Who
Want to Differentiate
Student Learning This
School Year
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September 27,2012
Netbooks, which in 2009 seemed
to be the computing format of
the future, have been one of the
biggest casualties of the growing
popularity of tablets.
—Louie Herr
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September 27,2012
@JaneCaro: I get so excited every
time a political leader comes
up with an education reform
with a large promise in the title.
#saidnoteacherever
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September 27,2012
A recent study of 18-24 year old
American high school graduates,
commissioned by education
nonprofit World Savvy, with
support from the International
Baccalaureate Organization,
shows a desire among young people
to learn more about global topics, but a
seeming lack of instruction within American
schools to satisfy these needs.
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September 27,2012
The following statistics are culled from The Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development’s “Education
at a Glance 2012” report.
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September 27,2012
In a recent “Mobile Device
Management: Sanity and Success
with an iPad 1:1” Tech & Learning/
Lightspeed webinar, participants
were asked “Are you planning a
mobile device roll-out?” Here are
their replies:
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September 5,2012
Lynn University, host of
the presidential debate
on Oct. 22, offers a 2012
Debate Curriculum for
Education through its site
and iTunes.
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September 5,2012
An informal survey conducted at
ISTE 2012 by Compass Learning
revealed the following findings:
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September 5,2012
In case you missed it: The federal government
announced last month that it has finalized the
application for the next round of Race To The
Top.
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September 5,2012
Tens of thousands of educators connected
last month for the first “Connected Educator
Month.”
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September 5,2012
A recent survey of youth ages 8-17 conducted by Microsoft unveiled some
interesting conclusions regarding online bullying:
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September 5,2012
LRMI: The Learning Resource
Metadata Initiative has developed
a common metadata specification
for marking up online content that
is educational in nature.
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September 5,2012
The National Alliance
for Partnerships in
Equity’s (NAPE)
Education Foundation
has received a
$100,000 grant from
the Motorola Solutions
Foundation as part
of the Innovation
Generation grants
program.
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September 5,2012
1 20+ Fun Free Apps that
Promote Student Centered
Learning & Literacy
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September 5,2012
When content is free, open, and
accessible to all then we need to
rethink what lectures should be
used for and delivering content
or knowledge is not a good use.
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September 5,2012
@joe_bower: Instead of increasing
school day, how about less testing
so we can learn more with the
school day we have now?
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July 26,2012
So let’s just admit what happened.
The 21st Century came and we
were not ready.
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July 26,2012
@patrickmlarkin: Are U.S. Schools
“Too Easy”? via @DianeRavitch
http://tinyurl.com/d3tnwch
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July 26,2012
According to “Learn Now, Lecture Later,” a
new report released by CDW-G, nearly half
(47 percent) of teachers surveyed said they
are moving beyond the lecture-only model,
and 71 percent of students and 77 percent of
teachers say they are using more classroom
technology today than just two years ago,
including laptops/netbooks, digital content
and learning management systems.
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July 26,2012
Discovery Education
provides numerous
lesson plans dealing with
geography.
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July 26,2012
The Verizon Foundation, in
collaboration with ISTE, announced
a new initiative to provide
schools in underserved areas with
STEM professional development
opportunities.
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