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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 [...]
ISTE Ventures Far and Wide to Offer Professional Development
ISTE will extend its global reach this week when it sends representatives to Australia, Singapore, India, and Mexico to provide professional development to the winning schools of the 2009 HP Innovations in Education grants. ISTE has been doing professional development for this particular HP grant program in the United States [...]
Introducing Kaya Hardin Our New ISTE Connects Community Manager
For the last two weeks I’ve had the pleasure of working side by side with Kaya Hardin the newly appointed Community Manager for ISTE Connects. For you Uber-tech geeks out there you should know that when I say working side by side I actually mean video conferencing via Skype and collaborating via Basecamp, both are [...]
The Definitive NECC ‘09 Wrap-up Post
Across the last week, more than 18,000 educators, administrators and technologist from more than 61 countries flocked to Washington, DC to attend ISTE’s NECC (National Education Computing Conference) 2009. After four days (June 26th – July 1st) packed from morning to night with education technology insights, it is my sad duty to report that NECC [...]
