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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, [...]
Apple iPad and Education: Teacher’s Aid or Student Learning Tool?
The wait is over and, to few people’s surprise; Steve Jobs announced the addition of a tablet product to Apple’s addictive line of i-tech.
While edtech-gurus are wiping up the pools of drool from their keyboards, it’s time to take a step back and look at what the iPad can do for educators and students.
Of all [...]
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 [...]
New Media, Old Medium
I love my laptop. I do. But I have one hard and fast rule about laptop usage. I don’t take my computer to bed with me. There is just something about slipping under the covers with a good book that helps me unwind after staring at a screen all day.
That isn’t to say that I [...]
Chrome for Mac User Friendly, Minimalistic
It’s been nearly 16 months since Google launched its Web browser Chrome by sending a 36-page comic to bloggers and developers in September 2009. However, as a Mac user, last week was my first chance to take Google Chrome for a test drive.
Although Google Chrome for Mac is still in beta, I had no trouble [...]
Why the Read/Write Web is Essential in Schools
In his book, RSS for Educators: Blogs, Newsfeeds, Podcasts, and Wikis in the Classroom, John G. Hendron discusses the importance of using the Read/Write Web, or Web 2.0, in education. He says:
What if a school’s success hinged on its ability to prepare students for an evolving, global society that demanded openness, peering, sharing, and acting [...]
