April 10, 2017
TED Talks have spread ideas since 1984 and continue to spark passion for a variety of topics, from business to education, or anything in between. TED has created a playlist of education talks, but the...
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Today’s students come to the classroom with more than just fascinating personal histories and interesting outlooks on the world. They come with data. Lots of it. Ed tech tools designed to assess stude...
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updated 4/7/2021 For decades, coding was seen as a rare, complicated skill that only few people understood and practiced. For many of us, it seemed impossible to organize all those endless strings of ...
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With today’s ongoing digital learning revolution, it’s easy to think that school librarians, and the libraries they’re in charge of, are outdated. Why should a student consult a book when he or she ca...
Read More →January 23, 2017
Fake news—who writes it, how it spreads—is on everyone’s mind lately. But it’s not just news readers should be concerned about which stories are true and which are false. As more students use the Inte...
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As technology continues to permeate every aspect of education, school district chief information officers (CIOs) can no longer operate in silos. Technology is now a key player in both information tech...
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With all the options available for bringing educational technology into the 21st-century classroom, deciding which program is the right fit for your school district can often seem like an overwhelming...
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Expanding digital access to all children at all ages benefits both educators and students alike. At the same time, though, it opens the door to some new challenges, from cyberbullying and online safet...
Read More →November 21, 2016
More than likely, when you went to school — whether it was 10 years ago or 50—the educational model was probably the same (and one we took for granted). Everyone sat in ordered rows. Lesson plans were...
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