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Digital Promise Brings Edcamps Into Its Tent

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For years, organizers of “ Edcamps ,” a popular brand of informal professional development gatherings for teachers, received a resource kit sent by their host organization, the Edcamp Foundation. Last week, Digital Promise announced it had acquired the assets and operations of the Edcamp Foundation. It began with a box.

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50+ Can’t-Miss K-12 Education Technology Events for 2017-2018

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To help you plan your upcoming travels, we’ve compiled a shortlist of more than 50 education technology events for the K-12 community happening across the world through June 2018. The calendar below lists the locations and dates for most of the major K-12 conferences from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018.

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Chaula Gupta Joins Digital Promise as Vice President and Chief Program Officer

Digital Promise

In this new role, effective May 2, Gupta will oversee Digital Promise’s national program team and an expanding international portfolio in partnership with leading international education and education technology organizations. and global education,” said Digital Promise President and CEO Jean-Claude Brizard.

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Edtech Needs More Infrastructure, Educator Support in 2017

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2017 is shaping up to be a big year of what-if’s. education technology agenda. Much work remains to be done to realize the full potential of education technology. Help Schools Identify What Works As more schools get connected to high-speed internet, it is imperative that the most effective technology solutions get implemented.

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Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders

The CoolCatTeacher

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. I started this program in the summer of 2017. Jody: We started in August of this year, so August 2017.

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5 Ways to Participate in #ISTE17 even if you’re not there #notatiste17

The CoolCatTeacher

I am so excited to be at ISTE with PowerSchool on Monday June 26th, 2017 at 4 p.m. In today’s show, Peggy George discusses how to get the most out of ISTE 2017 even if you’re not at there: The #notatiste17 Google Group. Want to hear another episode on ISTE 2017? This episode is sponsored by Powerschool. Stay tuned.

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Today’s Classrooms Should Be About Flexible Teaching—Not Furniture

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At the end of June a group of passionate, dedicated educators gathered for one of New Jersey’s last EdCamps of the 2017 school year. It’s like fixating on the technology with considering how we can best use these tools. I bounced around a few sessions but settled into one called “Flexible Furniture.”

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