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Guest Post: From Consumption to Creation: Future Ready Librarians Embrace Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

The Future Ready Librarians ® initiative has already changed the conversation about ways in which teacher librarians lead, teach, and support innovative learning in schools. The Future Ready Librarians initiative aligns school libraries and librarians with strategic work through the Future Ready Librarians Framework.

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US Edtech Policy Conversations Amidst Coronavirus Concerns with Tom Murray

The CoolCatTeacher

Advancement Courses has a free micro-course – Launching Online Learning. Now is the time we all need to educate ourselves on effective online teaching and I recommend this course as a great place to start. Register for this free micro-course. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it. About Thomas C.

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Future Ready Schools® Releases New Blended Learning Guide for Districts

techlearning

In conjunction with the seventh annual Digital Learning Day , Future Ready Schools (FRS), an initiative of the Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed), released a new guide for school districts interested in using “blended learning” to support their approach to instruction.

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Improving Teacher and Student Engagement Through Creativity

Edsurge

Creativity helps develop a deeper sense of learning, yet we keep our “creative” units until after state testing is over. Being future-ready is more than just being ready for college or securing a job; it’s thinking creatively about the problems we face as a society. It’s letting them discover the joy of learning.”

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Teaching with Empathy — The Missing Instructional Link

edWeb.net

Robert Letcher, Founder of EdGenuis, says it is imperative that students feel valued, respected, and cared about, whether in a face-to-face or online learning environment. Empathetic practice during a distance-learning or hybrid instructional situation includes providing empathy towards both students and parents. Leadership 3.0

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ISTE Launches ISTE U to Help Teachers, Leaders Build Digital Competencies

techlearning

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is beginning enrollment today for ISTE U , an online professional learning hub for teachers and leaders to build critical skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. Digital Citizenship in Action. ?

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A Unified Approach for Digital Integration

edWeb.net

He currently co-leads a Future Ready Administrators principal team to foster professional learning and he is working with the director of curriculum to define a blended and personalized learning framework to help implement digital content and services. Mark has presented at ISTE, SXSWEdu, FETC, CUE, and AASL.