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Is Your School "Future Ready"?

Graphite Blog

In November of 2014, President Obama challenged district superintendents to sign the Future Ready Pledge. Department of Education , and the LEAD Commission is hosting Future Ready Regional Summits across the nation to provide support for those districts and to build a network of leaders. Look at how you use time.

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow.

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Two Edthena Partners Featured in National Broadband Imperative Report

Edthena

During the school’s morning Reading Power Hour, all students use Chromebooks to access the online English Language Arts curriculum to read and respond to texts, practice new vocabulary, and write collaboratively. The post Two Edthena Partners Featured in National Broadband Imperative Report appeared first on the Edthena blog.

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@Quizizz : Say Goodbye to Worksheets and Crosswords

The CoolCatTeacher

A conversation with Jon Corippo on episode 92 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The kids come in, I say, get out your phones, or get out your Chromebooks or your iPads; boom, we’re going to do the test. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. What grade?

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9 Steps for Choosing a Device

Tom Murray

Higher Ed: Samsung Galaxy TabPro S : The award winning TabPro S provides ultra mobility and the freedom of a Galaxy tablet with the productivity of a full windows device.

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Finding Your School's Meaningful Language

Tech Helpful

Right now I am über excited about two things: Next generation chromebooks with touchscreen and the ability to run android apps. Forgive me, I digress into a potential future blog post but I share that to say, that's how my mind works. Paper or paper-like options for computer input that is becoming reasonably cost efficient.

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Who Wants a Job

Adam Welcome

It’s impossible to predict what the future will look like but it IS possible to predict what skills our students will need to be prepared for jobs that might exist someday. In his recent blog post “An unknown future? Blogging/Vlogging gives students the opportunity to write or speak to an authentic audience.