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Reaching all Learners: Presentation Tools for the Innovative Educator
Visual presentation tools like PowerPoint and Keynote have been saddled with an unsavory reputation. Lazy presenters can use the visual tools as a crutch to improve lackluster presentations. However, the best presenters use visual presentation tools to clarify their topic and make information accessible to all types of learners.
The popular VARK model of learning styles [...]
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 [...]
India: A Country on the Brink of an Education Revolution
India. The very word is evocative. India, land of ancient temples. India, land of the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort and Rajput palaces.
India as you see it on CNN: bustling, crowded, overwhelming. Throw in Mother Theresa, cricket, complex marriages, outsourcing and India’s computer engineers and you have a very complicated nation. Add two generations [...]
iPad: Boon or Bane for Education?
I’m fortunate to be a member of the ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU listserv, where an interesting discussion started on January 30 about the potential of the iPad for education. Some pretty strong pros and cons were expressed.
Here are my early thoughts. Perhaps readers would like to add some of their own.
As David Pogue said in the NY Times [...]
Copyright and Filtering Issues for Schools in the 21st Century
Schools in the 21st Century must contend with a variety of challenges stemming from the use of modern technologies in the classroom environment. This article focuses on two of the most prevalent issues faced by school administrators and teachers today–that of copyright compliance and protecting students from inappropriate web content.
The need for further treatment of [...]
ISTE’s Top Ten in ’10: Final Priorities for 2010
We are graduating students into a world defined by communications technologies that could hardly have been imagined a decade ago. To ensure our students are ready for this technologically enhanced existence we need to constantly reaffirm our commitment to improving classroom technology and skills-based learning.
Our final two priorities call for focusing on technology as the [...]
ISTE CEO Don Knezek Weighs in on Obama’s FY11 Budget
Don Knezek, CEO of ISTE, expressed concern over President Obama’s plan to’consolidate’ the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program in the 2011 budget. However, the current administration’s commitment to infusing technology in the k-12 curriculum is encouraging.
Click here to read Knezek’s full statement.
How do you think Obama’s 2011 budget plans will impact education?
Supporting Expertise and Integration of Tech. Skills into Teacher Evaluation
The countdown continues for ISTE’s Top Ten in ’10 education technology priorities.
To ensure that technological expertise is considered an integral part of an educator’s skill set, staying on top of technological advances must be one of the criteria on which an educator is judged. To that end, ISTE has named the measurement of skill development [...]
Frontline to Air Feature on Digital Learning Tonight
The award-winning PBS journalism program Frontline will air a 90-minute special titled Digital Nation examining he changes digital technologies have brought to various aspects of life in America. One of the key features of this program will be the changing role of 21st century teachers and learners.
ISTE welcomed the Frontline film crew at NECC 2009, [...]
ISTE’s Top Ten in ’10: Teacher Prep. & Access to Technology Named Top Priorities
Teachers are constantly asked to do more with less. The battle to adequately fund education rages on even as educators are being required to impart knowledge on an ever-increasing range of topics.
A pilot would not be asked to take to the air without modern equipment and extensive training in using the latest technologies. Yet many [...]
