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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?

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 [...]

Assessment and Broadband Access – Avenues to Equity?

Thanks to everyone for visiting this online discussion. We’re especially grateful for the tweets, comments, cross posts, alternate lists, and additional education priorities you’ve shared. Your contributions are important and timely!
How timely? Here are just a few of the key issues we’re tracking:
• In the US, we’re expecting national plans for education technology and broadband [...]

Helping Young Educators Keep Their Balance

Remember how excited you were your first few weeks as an educator? How full of promise each student interaction seemed, how you could barely wait to get to your office or classroom or computer lab each morning?

That’s because there’s something implicitly hopeful about working in education. Knowing that the work you’re doing, the knowledge you’re passing [...]

Do ISTE’s “Top Ten in ‘10” Ed Tech Priorities Reflect Your Issues?

Welcome to 2010 and to this ISTE Connects conversation!  From my home base in Washington DC, it looks to be a New Year full of possibility and challenge.  We face daunting budget deficits at all levels of government and find ourselves struggling to maintain robust funding for classroom technology.
As part of ISTE’s advocacy efforts this [...]

Crowdsourcing: Reflections on the Final Phase of Our Experiment

In his book, The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki discusses four key qualities that make a crowd of people “smart”. The crowd must be diverse, decentralized, independent, and it needs a way of summarizing people’s opinions into one collective verdict. In ISTE’s first fully crowdsourced keynote, we’ve done our best to tap into the wisdom [...]

What’s On Your Ed Tech Wish List?

The holiday season is a magical time full of good cheer and plenty of high hopes for the coming year. Just for a moment, we’d like you to suspend reality and tell us what kind of educational technology gift you’d most like to receive for your classroom.
Whether it’s an iPhone for every student, a stocking [...]

Where in the World Is ISTE?

“If students need new skills, then teachers need new capacities as well,” said ISTE CEO Don Knezek in his opening keynote to a 21st Century Learning conference being held October 31–November 4 near Shanghai, China.  Knezek detailed ISTE’s vision for transformed learning and teaching, challenging the assembled educators to “study digital age [...]

Engaging Readers on the L&L Group Page of the ISTE Community Ning

It’s been nearly a year since the staff of Learning & Leading with Technology magazine started a group on the ISTE community Ning to directly engage ISTE members with what they read in L&L. Our mission was to solicit responses for our Readers Respond and Point/Counterpoint sections, host contests, and [...]

Call for Beta Testers of NETS Draft Rubric

ISTE’s NETS for Students, the widely recognized and adopted education technology standards were updated in 2007 to reflect the rapid changes in technology, instruction, and learning environments. We recently developed a summary rubric for NETS*S across grade bands and are seeking comments from educators before the end of November, 2009.
Here’s a sample rubric from the draft, looking at Communication and [...]