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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Here's how you can enroll your teachers in a free future-ready teachers badge group.). Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. According to the playbook, it would take very little disruption and can be set up, communicated and launched over a summer break without additional staff.

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How to Redesign the K–12 Media Center

EdTech Magazine

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. . by Curtiss Strietelmeier.

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Cloud Tech Optimizes Workflow for K–12 Schools

EdTech Magazine

Leaders from many organizations, such as Future Ready Schools , talk about how schools can enable anywhere, anytime learning. Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! The Cloud Makes Learning from Anywhere a Breeze.

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CUE 2018: How IT Departments Can Minimize Downtime and Maximize Education

EdTech Magazine

So, when leaders at Chula Vista Elementary School District took a Future Ready Schools assessment to see if they were prepared to support 21st-century learning, Lincoln said they found a disparity between the IT department and the classroom. All of a sudden, they went from supporting devices to supporting assessment,” said Lincoln.

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#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”

EdTech Magazine

“It’s imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students,” says Tom Murray, director of innovation for Future Ready Schools , a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education. Around this time, I first got on Twitter. This incident really struck me.

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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

Subscribe to journals, magazines, and online platforms that focus on education. Platforms like X/Twitter, LinkedIn, and education-specific websites offer spaces for educators to share experiences, resources, and insights. Education Publications and Journals: Stay informed through reputable education publications and journals.

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How to be a Teacher Librarian Rock Star

The Daring Librarian

Is your library and program focused on: lifelong reading and literacy, creativity, constructivist learning, making, is it future ready, brain centered, participatory, transparent, positive, and becoming a vibrant and active learning commons? Our kiddos really are really not so much on Twitter (Shocking. I know, right?)

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