If you go to ISTE23 in Philadelphia this year, make sure that you make some time for Playgrounds. ISTE Playgrounds are short table presentations made by experts all centered around the same topic. These interactive sessions help everyone make personal connections to content and give you time to ask your questions to experts who can…
When I was a kid I really wanted to make videos. Being able to capture and then slice together scenes to make a movie was always so intriguing. I remember watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade too many times as a teenager and just loving how scenes were cut to make movement or tension….
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of talk about the “metaverse” and how it will transform various aspects of our lives. The metaverse refers to a virtual world where people can interact with each other and digital objects in a highly immersive way. While this technology certainly has the potential to…
School Passport will empower your district’s zero-trust data management with PII Shield. As the use of technology in education continues to grow, the protection of student data has become an increasingly critical issue for education technology leaders. With sensitive information such as grades, personal information, and financial data being stored and transmitted through technology systems,…
In today’s world, one can argue that hi犀利士 story is the most important subject area for the 21st century student to master. That’s easy for me to say and defend- I’ve taught and supervised history courses in New Jersey high schools for nearly two decades. I have a natural interest in learning more about these…
Bueller? Bueller? The image of Ben Stein’s sleepy-headed, gum-popping history students in the 80’s classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is probably not far from the history class adults experienced in their own high schools across America during the last few decades of the 20th century. Given this, it is no surprise that parents of today’s…
Editor’s Note: This the second in a series of blog posts reimagining how schools should move going forward. Taking to account the current state of K-12 schools, the increase in teachers and leaders leaving the field and the tools we have available to us. Check out the overview post here. This “Forward to Different” series…
Editor’s Note: This the first in a series of blog posts reimagining how schools should move going forward. Taking to account the current state of K-12 schools, the increase in teachers and leaders leaving the field, and the tools we have available to us. Check out the overview post here. There is a long-standing…
At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, we developed a Ukraine-Russia Conflict 2022 Media Literacy Choice Board to support students and teachers in exploring current events from a critical media literacy perspective. To engage in critical media literacy is to access, analyze, and produce a variety of media, with…