eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Future Ready overhaul coincides with the new national ed-tech plan. Last Thursday, The United States Department of Education held an event at the White House unveiling the 2016 National Education Technology Plan and celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Future Ready initiative.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Future Ready overhaul coincides with the new national ed-tech plan. Last Thursday, The United States Department of Education held an event at the White House unveiling the 2016 National Education Technology Plan and celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Future Ready initiative.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 29, 2016

One of the most exciting things to be announced at this year’s FETC, however, was the release of three new dynamic learning solutions by Samsung. A seamless and simplistic way to have all the tools – right where you need them.

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Tom Murray

APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Plan, Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education , articulates a vision of equity, active use, and collaborative leadership to make everywhere, all-the-time learning possible. . Department of Education released the 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP).

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RafranzDavis.com

OCTOBER 26, 2015

When I interviewed for my current role, I had to create a presentation and present on what being Future Ready meant to Lufkin. It was and still is a culture of ideas, learning and growth created to support the global preparedness of our students and teachers. These ideas are often ignored and it’s frustrating.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2022

Located in south central North Carolina, Hoke County Schools is a trusted community partner ensuring an inclusive and supportive environment that provides authentic learning opportunities preparing future-ready students. Those resources are: The Discovery Education platform. . Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2023

The license includes world rights for print and digital books, with ISTE providing supplemental resources supported by the ISTE Standards, a framework for using technology to support learning. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Preview an advance copy of the book at: bit.ly/SoniasDigitalWorldARC. SoniasDigitalWorldARC.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: Code.org ®. URL: code.org. Organization: Girls Who Code.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Designed to engage high schoolers in the world of STEM, these interactive resources help students focus on their career goals with simple strategies, roadmaps, and other easy-to-use digital tools. View the complete list of STEM Career Coalition partners here. .

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Public Schools, digital equity and access to technology at home is a very real problem. Without home access to broadband Internet, students don’t have a chance at an equitable education and have virtually no chance to compete for the best jobs and an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty that is pervasive in the Washington inner city.

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Tom Murray

MARCH 15, 2016

A one-to-one device to student ratio is an excellent goal as all students deserve high quality access and need to develop technology skills to remain competitive in today’s global economy. Remain focused on student learning and utilize the technology as the amazing accelerant that it can be. Personalize Professional Learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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TeacherCast

JULY 25, 2022

Additionally, many school districts have digital learning goals to improve the Future Readiness of their students. A Daily Teacher Interaction Tracking System is a tool that coaches use every day … in fact, several times a day to account not just for the work that they do with teachers, but what type of work they do.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast What if you didn’t give your students a science problem to solve with specific tools that lead them to a desired response, but instead gave them a data set, questions to guide their investigation, and the choice of means to shape their analyses?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

The learning experience must be redesigned and made personal. Learning spaces must become learner-centered. Professional learning must be relevant, engaging, ongoing, and made personal. Technology must be leveraged and used as an accelerant for student learning. It’s hard to argue with any of these.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

educational structure has created a generation of students that is hyperfocused on grades, not learning. Students need authentic opportunities to use real-world tools to do real-world work that matters. Key #5: Professional learning must be relevant, engaging, ongoing, and made personal. Who owns the learning is key.

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TeacherCast

JULY 25, 2022

Additionally, many school districts have digital learning goals to improve the Future Readiness of their students. A Daily Teacher Interaction Tracking System is a tool that coaches use every day. Direct access to Jeff Bradbury and all of​f his “offline” content that he creates during the school year.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Mackey Pendergrast described this process as a combination of “plumbing and poetry,” with the district’s technology infrastructure serving as the plumbing, and the poetry being comprised of teaching and learning, which these days increasingly includes the use of computers and online access. Data Analysis and Interpretation.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

They showed up in tech access and connectivity, food availability and even transportation, especially in historically underserved communities. Schools and districts set up temporary solutions that got them through the most challenging pandemic moments, from tech access to transportation. Access to food, for example, among them.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” Professional Learning. Innovative Approaches.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Identify the assets, the software, how access controls are set up, who can get to what, etc. And it’s OK to say no to a tool or app that was once used but now is deemed unsafe. Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, “ Cybersecurity Readiness in K-12 Schools ,” sponsored by ENA and hosted by Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).

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edWeb.net

MAY 14, 2020

Ensure equity for all students, especially students with disabilities, low-income students, and ELL students through digital resources such as Google sites and Classrooms, television options such as PBS, and communication tools such as Google phone, and snail mail. Learn more at www.net-ref.com.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

(May 16, 2018) – Texas’ Richardson Independent School District (RISD) today announced it has selected Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, to support the district’s new, three year “Future Ready: STEM for All” initiative.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

The current crisis has highlighted the disparity between students with and without equitable access to technology, especially in rural schools. One of the first challenges rural districts face is broadband access. With not all kids having the same access, they need to figure out how to develop lessons to accommodate all students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 31, 2019

Crazy Tools From the Upside Down. There are so many amazing, lesser-known tools for teachers and students. Join me in the Upside Down for some fantastic Google tools like AI Experiments, Made with Code, Google Easter Eggs, and many more! Technology has opened the door to many new types of learning. Stranger Google!

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techlearning

JUNE 20, 2018

- Award-Winning Digital Services and Professional Learning to Support the Development of Life-Long Learners- Silver Spring, Md. This unique combination of rich digital content and professional learning will drive HCS’s efforts to help all students become life-long learners.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2017

A few weeks ago, I was given an advanced copy of Lisa Johnson’s new book, Cultivating Communication in the Classroom: Future-Ready Skills for Secondary Students. Ready to start planning your summer professional learning? How do we cultivate these skills in our students? CLICK here to buy the book from Amazon.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

And it’s also about instruction and modeling for learners what it looks like to organize content and tools to manage our digital lives as information citizens. This is a serious opportunity to lead and to address issues of access and equity. Curates Digital Resources and Tools. Facilitates Professional Learning.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Student outcomes and budget management: Basically, this means schools need to balance their learning goals and desired impact on the students and teachers with a realistic budget. For example, while Linson’s district avoided grants for most of their initiative, they knew that many teachers would need assistance using the new digital tools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

For many districts, the days of after-school PowerPoint-driven lectures not differentiated by content, expertise, grade-level or delivery, not to mention daylong workshops on an obsolete topic, have recently given way to face-to-face coaching programs and professional learning communities.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Students can access a variety of digital assets including images, primary source documents, podcasts, oral interviews, articles, videos, interactives, and more, and are empowered to become content creators with a suite of content creation tools that help teachers and students safely and easily collaborate in real-time on virtual projects. “We

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

How do you approach purchasing education technology tools? They not only look at how the product would fit with their learning standards and curriculum, but the product must also work within their LMS. What role do learning goals play when searching for the best edtech? Then, learning goals drive the decision.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Click here to register to attend the conference live or to have access to the conference recordings afterwards. Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all.

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