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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom.

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Whatever it takes: How this district pivoted with the pandemic

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AW : We’ve been doing 1-to-1 in Maine since 2003 at a couple of grade levels. And then we have been backfilling with Chromebooks that stay in the classroom. Related content: How this district became closer by being apart. And most school districts in Maine expanded it upward from grades seven through 12.

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Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. But Do Schools Need—or Want—Them?

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Losing a pencil in the classroom may be annoying—but at least they’re cheap to replace. Microsoft does, too, and various pens from third-party manufacturers are beginning to dot the touchscreen Chromebook market. Already the company offers a touchscreen Chromebook, the Spin 11, with a stylus, which retail together for about $350.

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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

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Now, learning—like the internet—is everywhere thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and chromebooks. It just happens to happen from 8:00 to 2:30 in the classroom. It just happens to happen from 8:00 to 2:30 in the classroom, but that doesn’t mean learning stops when they leave school.

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Can You Be a ‘Good Teacher’ Inside a Failing School?

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Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu Despite a relatively new building, constructed in 2003 as part of a former superintendent’s turnaround project, Fisher has suffered from consistent low performance—falling far below state standards on exams and adjusted growth targets designed specifically for the school. “My Fisher Magnet Upper Academy.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

Tech Helpful

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

All agree, however, that media literacy is an important component of learning -- whether as its own focus or a cross-curricular literacy woven deeply into every classroom. Developing Habits of Reflection: Key Questions to Ask When Creating Media Messages (by Project Look Sharp): This poster is perfect for media-production classrooms.