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Dangerously Irrelevant

I served on the initial advisory board for ISTE’s Standards for Education Leaders (back then, they were the NETS-A) and in 2016 I received ISTE’s global Award for Outstanding Leadership. My students tell me that they appreciate my efforts in this area. , ISTE was one of our most important partners in that work. Related Posts.

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Student Engagement Platform ClearScholar Raises $1.25M in Seed Round

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ClearScholar , a student engagement platform where students can receive notifications, store information and virtually interact with their university, today announced it has received $1.25 We’re providing a student engagement platform that helps nudge students to get more engaged in meaningful relationships and staff.”

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At ISTE 2016, a Big Focus on Games, Projects, and Engaging Students

Marketplace K-12

Many of the 16,000 attendees expected to flock to ISTE 2016 come looking for ideas on how to make smart use of technology in their classrooms and schools, and for a preview of tech trends on the horizon. The list of sessions on tap for ISTE 2016 –there are roughly 1,000 of them–offers some clues on that front.

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Illinois’ Geneva School District 304 Renews Longterm Partnership with Discovery Education Supporting Science Education

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Each day, Geneva CUSD 304’s teachers, administrators, and staff seek to educate the nearly 5,500 students they serve within an environment that encourages the desire to learn and meets the unique academic, personal, physical, and social needs of each child.

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7 Ways to Get Teens Reading in a Smartphone Culture

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Adams is certainly correct that teenagers aren’t reading nearly as much these days; one 2016 study suggests a third of U.S. Like it or not, smartphones and teens’ social media use aren’t going anywhere any time soon. My kids are still young, but I’m always thinking of how to instill in them a passion for books, so I read on.on

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Survey: Daily classroom edtech use on the rise

eSchool News

Sixty-three percent of K-12 educators use edtech in their classrooms each day–an increase from the 55 percent reporting the same in 2016, according to an annual survey from the College of Education at the University of Phoenix.

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What Are Your EdTech Resolutions?

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What are your EdTech Resolutions for 2016? Setting Technology Goals for 2016. EdSurge Post/List of 2016 EdTech Conferences. Invest time in social media. Share lessons, images of students engaged in activities to social media. Introduce something New to your students. SoundCloud.

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