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Textbooks optional: What unbundling and BYOD mean for learning technology

eSchool News

As part of the macro trend of unbundling education, teachers are delivering a modern, customized curriculum by curating content in the form of videos, online text, and apps–moving beyond the physical textbooks. Enter the age of BYOD. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a huge part of the way schools are integrating technology.

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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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4 Questions for 4 Edtech Thought Leaders

eSpark

As technology is quickly evolving, educators and administrators alike are trying to keep up with the new products and trends in blended learning. Tom - The Future Ready effort is helping districts systemically plan BEFORE they purchase. Here’s who we asked and what they had to say: Tom Murray.

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4 Questions for 4 Edtech Thought Leaders

eSpark

As technology is quickly evolving, educators and administrators alike are trying to keep up with the new products and trends in blended learning. Tom - The Future Ready effort is helping districts systemically plan BEFORE they purchase. Here’s who we asked and what they had to say: Tom Murray.

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NCDLCN Voices from the Field: The Secret to Coaching

The PL2C Blog

I stay current with educational technology trends and bring those trends to my school through grant writing and working with research organizations. I also manage our 1:1 and BYOD initiatives in my school. I was also named as a Future Ready Instructional Coach Thought Leader.

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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.