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US Edtech Policy Conversations Amidst Coronavirus Concerns with Tom Murray

The CoolCatTeacher

Murray Tom serves as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools® , a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education , located in Washington, D.C. Murray served as an elementary teacher, middle school teacher, middle school principal, elementary principal, and at the district level in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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10 Tips for Instructional Technology Coaches

The CoolCatTeacher

Before joining Forward Edge in 2015, she worked in adult education, supervised students in an alternative school, taught computer science, and was an instructional technology coach at both the building and K-12 district levels. Katie finished her Ed.D.

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How Much Tech Support Is Enough

There is no box

— Robert Pronovost (@pronovost) September 10, 2015. 1 Site Tech per 3-4 Elementary Schools. Our end user tech support layers now look like this: 1 6 hour, 10 Month Library/Media Site Tech per Elementary School. If building future ready learning environments is important, then merely providing devices isn’t enough.

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Future-forward: How to incorporate the 5th ‘C’ of 21st Century learning

eSchool News

To help make all of our students aware of the career options available to them, in 2015 I created a virtual career wheel for Kankakee teachers to follow. Each grade focuses on a different segment of careers, so as students move through elementary school they are able to explore a variety of fields and recognize where their interests lie.

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The edWeb Team is going to be at ISTE 2019

edWeb.net

Rob serves as Principal at South Park Elementary Center outside of Pittsburgh, PA, and has truly become a sought-after leader in topics surrounding the field of education today. Dr. Rob is the author of several books including Reading, Technology, and Digital Literacy and the ISTE bestselling title Are You Future Ready.

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@Quizizz : Say Goodbye to Worksheets and Crosswords

The CoolCatTeacher

Under Jon’s Leadership, and with his CUE Professional Learning Team, CUE PL has trained over 32,000 teachers in 2015-2017. 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.

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AV that Makes the Grade

techlearning

1 AV TECHNOLOGY FOR SOFT SKILLS AND DESIGN THINKING “The Role of Education in Building Soft Skills,” a Wainhouse Research K-12 report from 2015, revealed that problem-solving and collaborative skills are the primary soft skills on which schools should be focusing in the next decade. The results have been compelling.

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