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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

In future ready schools, technology and digital learning expand access to high-quality, ongoing, job-embedded opportunities for professional learning for teachers, administrators, and other education professionals. Non-traditional forms of professional learning such as the use of social media and Edcamps are valued, not dismissed.

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5 Innovative ways for teachers to connect with other teachers

Neo LMS

Collaboration is one of the most valued features of meeting with other teachers, and projects such as EdCamp have demonstrated how successful this informal style of unconference can be in inspiring and enabling teachers. Teachers describe immense benefits from connecting in this way to access real-world advice and support.

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Merritt Public Schools: How a Rural Oklahoma District Developed its Digital Learning Program

Education Superhighway

By the time two years had passed and the school had 800 students, Merritt had fully implemented a 1:1 student-to-device policy. With 1 Gbps of bandwidth and 1 Wi-Fi access point per classroom, the district meets the bandwidth goals set by the Oklahoma Connect & Learn Initiative and SETDA.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

Edsurge

It happened back in 2008 when new policies and funding sources were put forth with the intent to grow school districts’ abilities to supplement and meet the diverse needs of students—specifically in the face of foreign language teacher and Advanced Placement honors-level course shortages. Wyoming Switchboard Network homepage.

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Here are some of the latest ed-tech, policy updates

eSchool News

But even though they’re in schools, our work with teachers has led us to understand that while many of them would like to use iPads meaningfully in their classrooms, they can’t because of time, access, and training. 5 ways cloud computing will impact students, teachers, and IT in 2016.

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Connecting Teaching, Learning, & Leadership

EdTechSandyK

Evolution of policies around connectivity for all. Blurring lines between local and global PLN Ex: Use PLN to connect with classes all over the world for mystery Skype, etc Policy Built to protect organization or encourage innovation on the part of all stakeholders? Who has a consistent seat at the policy table?

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8 Secrets To Providing Amazing EdTech Customer Service | By @JeffBradbury | @SamPatue

TeacherCast

Be accessible. Sphero has a rapid replacement policy for teachers. Look for Edcamps <https://twitter.com/EdcampUSA> and offer support. EDcamps will be happy to hand out information about an app to participants, but companies should not miss out on the rich opportunity to join the education conversation.

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