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Instructor Spotlight: Tom Driscoll

EdTechTeacher

Before joining EdTechTeacher, Tom served as Digital Learning Director for the Bristol Warren Regional School District, leading their Future Ready Educational Technology initiative and 1-1 device program. Tom provides keynote and workshop services on the following topics [& Many more!]:

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8 Ed-tech organizations every teacher should know about

Neo LMS

FRS (Future Ready Schools). This is a resource rich program supported by the non-profit Alliance for Excellent Education , and is specifically designed to offer districts an actionable, stepped program that they can follow to become a “future-ready school”. CoSN (Consortium for School Networking). Level: K12. Level: K12.

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3 New Tools to Support Your Digital Conversion

Tom Murray

Reshma’s opening keynote was followed by over 500 sessions and hands-on workshops focused on STEM, while supporting educators working to improve their instructional practice. Unveiled this month and available for purchase in February are: 1. A seamless and simplistic way to have all the tools – right where you need them.

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The Future Is Always Uncertain. So How Should Educators Prepare Today’s Learners?

Edsurge

EdSurge Fusion , technology industrialists joined school leaders at keynotes and workshops in grappling with how to best prepare students for a future where many jobs may be automated—and cease to exist. I believe we actually waste more money on technology in schools, than technology that actually works, he said during a workshop.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based based education advocacy group. Teacher-librarians such as Chun have since expanded that tech-integration role.

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Workbench Education Expands Partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools

techlearning

In August 2017, Workbench began its initial pilot phase with a multi-day Professional Development (PD) workshop for teachers from Wildwood Elementary/Middle School (formerly Lyndhurst Elementary/Middle School). Future-ready skills ? Teaching with projects and hands-on learning ? Student engagement ? STEM/STEAM education ?

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

Professional development defined as one-hit wonders with hour-long speaker presentations and all-day workshops leaves teachers unequipped to implement best practices and personalized learning opportunities for their students. Before 2gnoMe, Ilya led several technology start-ups and managed the global cloud program at Dell Software.