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Framing the Personalized Learning Discussion from Tom Driscoll

EdTechTeacher

Despite the long history of advocacy for student-centered learning, PL has been one of the more elusive reform efforts to actually define. Although we see some value in those approaches in certain contexts, we recognize that only providing this type of instruction is not what we envision as future ready learning for our students.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based based education advocacy group. “It And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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Buncee is headed to FETC19

Buncee

Or, click and save the schedule below to your phone for a quick reference! Shannon Miller-Name That Future Ready Librarian Wedge-3PM. Join Shannon McClintock Miller, teacher librarian, and Future Ready Librarian spokesperson, for a fun game of Buncee Doodle, Name That Future Ready Librarian Wedge.

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8 Ed-tech organizations every teacher should know about

Neo LMS

I therefore thought that a definitive quick reference guide to the major players, with a brief description would be a handy resource for our readers. Focus: EdTech Access and Advocacy. FRS (Future Ready Schools). At the heart of the program is the Future Ready Framework, part of a very useful online dashboard.

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Not “Just” a Teacher: Finding Your Voice as a Teacher

The CoolCatTeacher

I am very honored to serve as one of the two national advisors for Future Ready Schools , representing the Instructional Coach strand. Fast forward to a few weeks, and Carl also serves on Future Ready Schools as one of the advisors for the IT strand. Don’t worry about it.” And we just kind of laughed that off.

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5 Ways to Bring Financial Literacy into Any School

The CoolCatTeacher

If you go to NextGen Personal Finance’s website, they have up in the upper right hand corner a #finhero, and it was an extensive project where not only did somebody survey 85% of high schools in the United States, but they build out all of these advocacy tools that teachers could use if they wanted to advocate for financial literacy.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.