eSpark

APRIL 11, 2022

Certified Google Educator, the Massachusetts Google Educator Group Leader, and Technology Integration Specialist/Mobile Learning Coach for Burlington Public Schools. Tom - The Future Ready effort is helping districts systemically plan BEFORE they purchase. Jennifer Scheffer. Oversees the globally recognized BHS Help Desk.

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EdTech Future Ready BYOD Personalized Learning 52

Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For this article, we scoured thousands of reputable digital tools to bring you the best digital tools for future-ready classrooms in 2022. Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms. You can use several templates and ready-made questions and add your institution’s logo and colors.

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Tools eBook Classroom Future Ready 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 15, 2015

Wednesday, June 24th from 11am - 7:15pm EDT Future Ready Virtual Summit: 2015 School Leadership Summit , Future Ready Schools: 2015 School Leadership Summit will be held online using Google Hangouts on Air. Rachelle facilitates the BYOD training in her district and has developed her own model: R.E.A.D.I.E.E

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Future Ready Libraries BYOD Conference 28

The Thinking Stick

MARCH 6, 2023

If you are curious to learn more about what a ‘future-ready’ library is all about, Karina has stellar advice to share. She has been an educator for over a decade and has earned array of digital credentials including Apple, Google, and Microsoft for Education certifications. So many great ways to use these resources.

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Libraries Social Media Conference Future Ready 52

TeacherCast

JULY 24, 2022

I am always curious to learn how much time it takes for a coach to design the perfect newsletter (each week) using applications such as Canva , Google Slides , Bitmoji , or even Wakelet. If your district for example is pushing the use of Google Applications, it does not make any sense to use Canva or SMORE to create your newsletter.

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Digital Learning Meeting Video Future Ready 157

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

We use Google Classroom a lot. We use Google Hangouts. They’re using tools like Google Classroom and different things that I curate for the teacher and for the class. We use Padlet. We use Skype. We should have many more blended courses on the books next year. Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford kymberlimulford@gmail.com.

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Digital Citizenship Education Future Ready Course 194

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Under Jon’s Leadership, and with his CUE Professional Learning Team, CUE PL has trained over 32,000 teachers in 2015-2017. Jon’s last district was selected as a Future Ready District, implementing 1:1 from 7th grade up, adding coding, 3d printing, PBL and Minecraft Edu in all K-8 schools, among other notable innovative activities.

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EdTech Tools Twitter Professional Learning 378

TeacherCast

JULY 24, 2022

Curating & Creating Resources Designing and Publishing I am always curious to learn how much time it takes for a coach to design the perfect newsletter (each week) using applications such as Canva , Google Slides , Bitmoji , or even Wakelet. In another example, the district might have Future Ready or Digital Learning goals.

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Digital Learning Meeting Video Future Ready 88

eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The BenQ Boards allowed Paso Robles to bypass an expensive cabling infrastructure update many of its schools needed while introducing an affordable yet innovative classroom solution for fostering engagement and collaboration and nurturing future-ready students. “We ClassLink, and more.

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Future Ready Software Learning Meeting 58

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

You certainly don’t want technology to beget more technology, which happens often,” said Benjamin Schrom, a Google product manager who created the virtual-reality gear Expeditions and shared the stage with Vander Ark. An uncertain future is no excuse for unclear planning and uninformed technology purchases, however. Well, guess what?

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Education Future Ready Software Training 76

edWeb.net

JUNE 30, 2018

DET, working with all things data, develops processes for evaluating digital content, measures efficacy of implementations, and informs decision-making, training, and evaluation. Zach co-led a successful district-wide implementation of Canvas and advocated for greater use of Google Apps and cloud-based productivity by students and teachers.

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Future Ready Secondary EdTech Survey 40

EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Sue Kowalski is the librarian at Pine Grove Middle School in the East Syracuse Minoa School District. Sue is passionate about empowering student voice and leadership in and through the library.

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Edcamps Social Media Libraries Future Ready 45

EdTechTeam

AUGUST 20, 2018

Many in the EdTech community have been exposed to various ways students and teachers can use Google Forms, Sites, Docs, Slides, and other platforms to create interactive branching logic “choose your own adventure” style activities. We decided to use Google Sites for the project, but other platforms would have worked as well.

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Google Future Ready Mobility iPad 40

Educator Innovator

MARCH 16, 2016

Katie and Jason’s work, part of a collected free ebook called Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom , was one of several highlighted in the Department of Education’s 2016 National Education Technology Plan , “ Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education (PDF).”

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Technology Future Ready Edcamps Laptops 46

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Listen to this week’s podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen, or use the player below. These tools claim to use machine learning, where they use past papers to train their models to detect patterns and make some assessment on whether something is good or bad.

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Technology Trends Software Future Ready 124

My Island View

JANUARY 26, 2015

The mindset of a 20 th Century educator is very comfortable for most educators since they were trained for the most part by 20 th century educators. If students need info, they can Google it. The problem however is that many educators want to apply this sit and wait posture to anything that requires them leaving their zones of comfort.

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Twitter Education Social Media Future Ready 48

edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Through edtech conferences such as ISTE , coaching programs such as Digital Promise and DigCit , teachers and coaches can be trained to teach in innovative ways that include critical components in digital learning and digital inquiry. She is also a national advisor for the Future Ready Instructional Coaches Strand. Howard, Ph.D.

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Strategy EdTech Professional Learning Accessibility 46

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Their goal: to celebrate the progress in making technology more accessible in our nation’s schools over the last several years through the efforts of the ConnectED and Future Ready Schools initiatives. Department of Education officials, who are on an “ Opportunity Across America ” back-to-school bus tour.

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eBook Education Future Ready Libraries 60

RafranzDavis.com

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

There are so many pieces to the puzzle of “future readiness” and being in this district has reaffirmed my belief and understanding that although President Obama’s ConnectEd to the future initiative was about digital connectivity, we can’t ignore the necessity of human connections with our local communities.

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BYOD Future Ready Data Mobility 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Future Ready overhaul coincides with the new national ed-tech plan. Last Thursday, The United States Department of Education held an event at the White House unveiling the 2016 National Education Technology Plan and celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Future Ready initiative.

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Future Ready Resources Equity of Access Professional Learning 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Future Ready overhaul coincides with the new national ed-tech plan. Last Thursday, The United States Department of Education held an event at the White House unveiling the 2016 National Education Technology Plan and celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Future Ready initiative.

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Future Ready Resources Equity of Access Professional Learning 40

techlearning

MARCH 23, 2018

Future Ready Schools® Releases New Blended Learning Guide for Districts ] Design the day Once your education staff has provided some input, let the planning and designing begin! Take their suggestions into consideration and add a variety of other opportunities, including sessions not suggested, to ensure sufficient differentiation.

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Digital Learning Strategy Learning Survey 42

Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The post FREE Google Lesson Plans for Teachers and Students – SULS087 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Get FREE Google lesson plans for teachers and students from Google’s Applied Digital Skills resource center. These are ready-to-go, asynchronous lessons that will help your students gain future-ready skills.

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Google Future Ready Video Training 101

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Joining Soumakian were Stuart Burt, chief technology officer for Royse City ISD; Doug Brubaker, an assistant superintendent at Garland ISD; and Tom Murray, a former educator and tech director who now helps coordinate the Future Ready Schools project for the Alliance for Excellent Education. There just has to be a lot of dialogue.

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OER E-rate Broadband Future Ready 48

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2018

He’s dedicated to providing training throughout the country. He just had a national conference in San Francisco that was entirely sponsored and had 110 teachers in to provide three days of training. And the other thing that sticks out is that it’s primarily shared through Google Drive. He has a blog post. Brian: Totally.

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Future Ready Company Twitter Resources 162

techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

Hardware training involved learning how to use products from industry leaders in the maker education market, including programmable robots and drones (Sphero, Parrot), along with Arduino and circuitry kits (Makey Makey, Circuit Scribe). Future-ready skills ? Teaching with projects and hands-on learning ? Student engagement ?

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Future Ready Elementary Industry Education 49

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

She was selected to participate in the Future Ready Superintendent Briefing with the U.S. Dr. Marczak leads trainings across Tennessee in district and principal professional development, SMART goal implementation, professional learning communities, and the impact of social media on the superintendency.

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BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

So, I think going back we would have had parallel, interlocking coaching and work and training on moving from that teacher-centered to student-centered model…and using the tech to really accelerate that.”. She was selected to participate in the Future Ready Superintendent Briefing with the U.S.

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EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 50

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

New AV technologies, such as the ClickShare wireless presentation systems from Barco and wePresent, huddle systems from Mersive, Crestron, and Harman, and interactive displays from the likes of InFocus, Nureva, Google, Cisco, and Avocor, put more power in the hands of learners. But now you have information at your ‘lips.’

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Trends Elementary Case Study System 50

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

The district used Alma to target addresses, put them in Google My Maps to find out where students were located, and set up about 20 satellite meal locations. Action 3: Future Proof Your School. What else must educational leaders do to get their schools and districts future ready?

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Chromebook Future Ready Google System 95

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Listen to this week’s podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen, or use the player below. And we train undergraduate peer facilitators to be in the dialogue space as facilitators. Because most faculty are not trained in that way and don't know what to do when it happens.

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Classroom Guidelines Social Media Course 128

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Many districts have signed the Future Ready Pledge , but what comes next? The first session focused on one tool—Google Slides—and ways to use it creatively to enhance a lesson. Planning for a Big Initiative Takes Intentionality Taking a pledge is great, but how does a district turn that into action?

Technology 60

Technology Education EdTech Future Ready 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I am a Google Educator Group Leader and Google Certified Innovator in Mexico City.I Bronwyn has travelled the world speaking about the importance of preparing students to be future ready. She will host the first ever OGC Global Summit for Future Ready Education in Australia, July 2020.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72