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CoSN 2018: Broadband and Cybersecurity Are Top IT Concerns

EdTech Magazine

More than half of women come to their IT role with an academic background in education and instruction , compared with a third of men, who come from a background in technology,” says Steve Langford, CoSN Board member and CIO of Beaverton School District in Oregon. IT Leaders are predominately white (90 percent).

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6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

Both are great devices, but represent a sea change from the Macs and PCs that have traditionally been the device-of-choice in education. When asked, most educators shrug and point at someone else. An important part of succeeding in core classes is understanding the language. Common Core has three levels of vocabulary: basic.

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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. All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR.