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Outfitting 21st Century Classrooms with 21st Century Teachers

What does a 21st century classroom look like? Is there a interactive whiteboard at the front of the room instead of a blackboard? Are students busily manipulating iPad screens rather than laboring with pencil and paper? Do students tweet their questions rather than raise their hands?
When we talk about giving students a 21st century education [...]

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Tip O’Neill – former Massachusetts congressman, Speaker of the House, and all around Washington powerhouse – is famous for saying that all politics is local. Even in this era of a flat world, 24-hour news cycle, and nonstop stream of information on the Internet, there is still no getting away from this belief, particularly when [...]

Take Students Around the World With Virtual Fieldtrips

Do you have a videoconferencing unit in your school but don’t really know what to do with it? If so, you may not be aware of the large and impressive number of interactive resources available to you just a digital dial away. Wainhouse Research reports last year found that about 33% of U. S. public [...]

A Teaching Moment: Survey Monkey as a Tool for Peer Assessment

Although students are traditionally assessed based on their written work, I try to challenge my students to provide evidence of their progress in a variety of different ways. The undergraduate students I teach are often headed toward careers as professional communicators, so learning how to express themselves verbally and visually is just as important as [...]

How to Teach an Old Dog New Tech: The Invisible Hand of Learning Part II

How do we motivate adults to learn new things? This question has been on my mind for months. In my first post for ISTE  (The Invisible hand of Learning: Part I) I wrote about how we changed our Professional Development (PD) concept  from a top-down to a bottom-up model. The experiment is now on it’s [...]

The 5Ws and H of Playing [Video] Games in School: Part 1 – Why Play Games?

In the first of a series blogs on Playing [Video] Games in School, I thought I’d pose and try to answer the question, “Why play [video]games in school?”
The obvious answer is, “To motivate kids and make learning fun!”
I don’t know how many times I asked my kids, “How was school today?” and either got a [...]

Virtual Collaboration: Finding Your Birds of a Feather

When I meet with educators for professional development around the topic of project-based learning I often ask experts to join us through Skype. Bud Hunt, Terry Smith, Julie Lindsay, Chris Lehmann, Linda Hartley, Jeff Utecht and others have graced my groups with their presence. Teachers are always impressed with their knowledge and passion, and note [...]

Education Technology: A Student’s Perspective

I am Sierra, a 7th grader and Rob Reed’s daughter. I went with him to California to the HP Innovations in Education conference, co-sponsored by ISTE.
So far, my classroom has been using shared computers for the whole school(Macbooks) and each student has an assigned computer. We do not do much on the computers but type [...]

Reflections from ISTE Kay L. Bitter Award Recipient Maria Knee

We sat down with Maria Knee to discuss her experience attending ISTE’s Conference to accept the Kay L. Bitter Vision Award for Excellence in Technology-Based PK–2 Education. Knee works at Deerfield Community School in Deerfield, New Hampshire.
What was it like to attend the ISTE Conference?
Winning the Kay L. Bitter Award was a great experience [...]

ISTE Goes Mobile: Beta version of ISTE iPhone App Now Available

Ready to use your bus commute to catch up on your ISTE Connects reading? How about referring to the NETS while you’re out to coffee with a colleague? Want to share that L&L article with your network on Twitter?
Well, your smartphone is about to get a whole lot smarter. We’re pleased to introduceISTE Mobile, an iPhone application [...]