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Post-Industrial Pedagogy
Quality and access to education continue to top the list of education priorities in countries across the world. But finding balance between both access and quality is something policy makers, educators and community leaders have wrestled with for decades.
7 Social Media Tools To Tell Your Classroom Story
As the school days get long and teacher fatigue sets in, we educators forget that parents, loved ones and members of the community truly want to hear the stories that arise in classroom. We can’t forget the importance of facilitating learning opportunities is equally as important as sharing them.
Smart Cities: The Hillsborough Leadership Story
High performing organizations grow their own leaders. A lack of political stability makes that unusual in urban American education--but Hillsborough, Florida is a great exception.
The SAMR Ladder Through the Lens of 21st Century Skills
SAMR is a truly useful tool for helping teachers identify their current comfort zone in order to build expertise in designing efficient and effective student learning experiences. To reach higher levels on the SAMR ladder, teachers can make some planning and instructional shifts.
10 Tools Every Teacher Should Master This Summer
These are the tools that will transform your classroom in the fall because you’ll notice the definite threads that run throughout all these applications... real-time, collaborate and creative! Those words together are sure to build a lot of excitement around exactly how educational technology is developing!
OpenClass Leverages Open Content & Social Learning
A year ago, Pearson moved, “Beyond the LMS,” and launched OpenClass, a learning environment that is open, easy, and free. At ISTE, Pearson highlighted the OpenClass Exchange, “Where educators can trade in open digital experiences from courses to components,” as Matt Leavy explained.
6 New Apps from Edshelf
Edshelf shares the newest additions to their app library to help followers find great new content and stay current on the best educational apps.
High School Career Counseling Goes Blended
We’ve all heard of Blended Learning, in fact we recently blogged about How to create a Blended High School; but now it’s time for Blended Counseling.
EdTech 10: Post-ISTE Grooviness
I’m thinking we can divide our readers into two categories this week: those who went to #ISTE13 and those who didn’t. Either way we’ve got something for you in this week’s EdTech 10 - whether you’re unpacking this weekend or still recovering from conference-envy. For starters, check ISTE’s Top Ten Conversations from the Getting Smart Editor and ISTE-veteran Alison Anderson.
ISTE’s Top Ten Conversations
It seems safe to say that no one will be wrapping up the ISTE conference tomorrow without having met someone new, learned something new or had a conversation about trying something new during the next school year.