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The New National Education Technology Plan: What’s in it for Me?

Tom Murray

Department of Education released the 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP). First released in 1996 and updated every five years since, the NETP is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. Future Ready Schools. ConnectED Fellow, Zac Chase , from the U.S. Source: tech.ed.gov/netp.

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7 Questions Principals Should Ask When Hiring Future-Ready Teachers

MindShift

Mrs. Cassidy’s Class (@mscassidysclass) April 25, 2016. Mrs. Cassidy’s Class (@mscassidysclass) January 8, 2016. “I The adults would practice documenting the steps of their learning process so they can show students later. John Massie (@UplandEdTech) September 21, 2016. They are far away. By Lemmy. —

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The National Education Technology Plan 2016

Kathy Schrock

Having worked on the 2000 version of the plan, I was anxious to read the document entitled "Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education". There were no real surprises for me in the document, and I know of many schools who have already met many of the goals and recommendations outlined in the document.

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ISTE 2016: Educational Equity, Lifelong Learning, and a Simpler Approach to Edtech

eSpark

Recognizing that public education can be an important site of social and political change, ISTE 2016 presenters and attendees spent much of the week discussing how to use technology to help students that are often underserved by traditional methods of instruction catch up with their peers. Keeping it simple.

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ISTE 2016: Educational Equity, Lifelong Learning, and a Simpler Approach to Edtech

eSpark

Recognizing that public education can be an important site of social and political change, ISTE 2016 presenters and attendees spent much of the week discussing how to use technology to help students that are often underserved by traditional methods of instruction catch up with their peers. Keeping in simple.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

If you examine the Future Ready Librarians Fact Sheet , it is clear that these gears that address the librarian’s role in the Future Ready Schools Framework and in connecting their practices, programs and spaces to educational innovation in schools. 14 May 2016 . Designs Collaborative Spaces. 2014): 27-36.

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Future Ready update adds new resources and PD for leaders

eSchool News

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.