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Librarians at the Forefront of “Future Ready”

edWeb.net

Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.” The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning. Department of Education.

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Policy and Practice: An AI Roadmap

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Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Artificial intelligence (AI) in education began in the 1950s with simple programs focused on playing checkers and natural language processing for medical prescriptions. In 2011, the world was introduced to Siri and generative adversarial networks (GANs) appeared in 2014.

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ParentSquare Partners with MyVRSpot to Enhance Video Messaging to K-12 School-Home Engagement Platform

eSchool News

With this new partnership, K-12 educators from the district office to the classroom teacher can seamlessly record and share video messages using ParentSquare and MyVRSpot to engage families with their communications. Completely web-based, this feature requires no special hardware, and was designed specifically for education.

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Dreaming bigger for Iowa education

Dangerously Irrelevant

The issues from our 2011 Iowa, Did You Know? What if… every Urban Education Network of Iowa district had an ‘alternative’ high school for low-achieving students that focused on creative inquiry, collaborative problem-solving, and community contribution instead of worksheet packets and self-paced online courses? Bottom line.

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@Quizizz : Say Goodbye to Worksheets and Crosswords

The CoolCatTeacher

Listen to Jennifer Gonzalez talk about 5 tech tools every educator should try in 2017. Jon’s last district was selected as a Future Ready District, implementing 1:1 from 7th grade up, adding coding, 3d printing, PBL and Minecraft Edu in all K-8 schools, among other notable innovative activities. Selected Links from this Episode.

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The edWeb Team is going to be at ISTE 2019

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We don’t have a booth, but we’ll be checking out all the exhibits, learning about the newest innovations in the education field, and connecting with colleagues and looking for all of our educator friends, partners and sponsors! Robert Furman is an educator, leader, principal, student, speaker, and published author.

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22 districts join network of innovative school systems

eSchool News

Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools members partner with other leading educators, entrepreneurs, and researchers from across the U.S. The League of Innovative Schools, launched in late 2011, accepts new members through an open application process once per year. million students. 25-27 in Pittsburgh.

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