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Student engagement requires more than edtech tools

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During a session at FETC 2024, Tom Murray, Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, dove into just what, exactly, makes for the effective use of edtech in supporting student engagement. Leveraging technology for low level tasks leads to time invested in low-level learning. So how do we focus on the interactive piece?”

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How to Redesign the K–12 Media Center

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As we know, technology is an essential part of any modern classroom. When classroom and media center design is “driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students,” it can move teaching practices forward, Tom Murray, the director of innovation for Future Ready Schools, recently told EdTech. .

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Is Your School "Future Ready"?

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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. How do you build such a culture?

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Dave Eggers on Finding Creative Refuge From the ‘Lunacy’ of Technology

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But the increasingly sophisticated technologies that people have come to rely on should not absolve personal responsibility for learning how to spell, write or communicate, says Dave Eggers. Increasingly there’s less choice about when you use technology and when you don’t.” By no means is Eggers a luddite. I wanted it to be calm.

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Textbooks optional: What unbundling and BYOD mean for learning technology

eSchool News

Today’s educators are looking to Chromebooks , smartphones and maker spaces to enhance their teaching. As digital natives, today’s students have grown up with technology integrated into every aspect of their lives, and education is no exception. The days of overhead projectors and chalkboards are behind us. Enter the age of BYOD.

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The Features And Benefits Of The XP-Pen Drawing Tablet In The Classroom

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They have tutorials and eLearning resources for teachers here and are also Chromebook-compatible. is light, portable, and WiFi-ready. Much of this has to do with fluctuating learning priorities where critical thinking and problem-solving skills for a future-ready, tech-savvy student body are given precedence.

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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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