eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

While the educational benefits of AI, such as helping students build future-ready skills, are clear, it is equally important to ensure that students learn how to use AI safely and responsibly. Although equitable access to AI in classrooms is a problem, professional learning offers a solution.

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Tom Murray

MAY 23, 2018

Over the past few years, districts have been working diligently to close the access gap (coined in D.C. The statistics regarding the need are clear and I believe that equity in access is one of the main issues facing school leaders today. EveryoneOn.org is a non-profit that works to support families in obtaining access at home.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Can Companies like Facebook Help Close the Access Gap? Over the past few years, districts have been working diligently to close the access gap to support students, particularly those most in need. When districts design their plans for home access, and companies such as Facebook rise to the challenge, kids win.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

Some of these are: different approaches to teaching adapted to students’ needs, developed ICT skills, professional development for teachers, attempts to bridge the digital divide, improvement of resource accessibility, funding and curriculum changes. Read more: Methods and tools to develop future-ready skills.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Hybrid Pedagogy is an open-access journal of learning, teaching, and technology. The following resources provide more insight on various digital learning theories and frameworks, including the ones mentioned in this post: Teaching in a Digital Age (2nd Edition): Guidelines for designing teaching and learning by A.W.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Passive learning doesn’t help students develop future-ready skills, like critical thinking or creativity, in the same way active learning does.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As students across the country began heading back to classrooms, a couple hundred library leaders participated in one of this summer’s Future Ready Library Summits. Today, students readily access digital resources. They understand the norms associated with virtual group discussion.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

But teachers counter that, in order to effectively and efficiently integrate digital tools, content and resources into their classrooms, they need planning time, access to classroom technology; PD; technology support; and high-quality, consistent internet access. Personalized Education Makes Students Future-Ready.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2018

That pioneering work led to Future Ready Librarians , an extension of the national Future Ready Schools initiative at the Alliance for Excellent Education. Despite seeing glasses as half-full, I will acknowledge that not all school librarians are Future Ready.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 1, 2018

School districts would be wise to consider now what capacity and capabilities their networks will need to support smart devices and IoT applications in the near future. Ready or Not, Now's the Time to Prepare for IoT. Those deploying new wireless access points should select 802.11ac Wave 2 technology for high performance.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Artistic and creative activities as part of a STEAM curriculum can also be a more accessible route to understanding difficult-to-grasp STEM concepts. This, in turn, gives them valuable future-ready skills for the workplace and in their daily lives.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Concepts like state of matter, structure of atoms and chemical reactions become accessible in Minecraft through the immersive world and these brand-new tools,” Minecraft Education Director Neal Manegold says in the blog. Here's how you can enroll your teachers in a free future-ready teachers badge group.).

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2025

In the Digital Promise white paper Access to Powerful Technology as a Catalyst for Career Pathway Engagement , 12th-grade student Andrew shared the importance of the HP Learning Studio in providing access to technology for students who might not have similar resources at home.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

New project highlights critical role school librarians play in supporting Future Ready goals. Future Ready Schools (FRS), led by the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) in partnership with the U.S. Future Ready librarians embrace change and innovation in education,” said Ray. “As

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

CHICAGO – Parents and educators agree that a key goal of K-12 education is to ensure that students are “future-ready”—with the knowledge, skills, and drive to navigate their careers and lives. Access the full report: Educating Future-Ready Students: Bridging Social and Emotional Learning and Career and Workforce Development.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Education has shifted dramatically in recent decades — from an emphasis on fact memorization through “drill and kill” and “sage on the stage” teaching styles to a focus on higher-order thinking and future-ready skills such as critical thinking and problem solving.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 19, 2022

What matters the most is to equip students with future-ready skills to become well-rounded adults ready to thrive in their lives and careers. So, teachers don’t need to manually access each student’s profile and each individual assignment. Moreover, they get access to educational content at any time from anywhere.

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Neo LMS

MAY 24, 2022

Acquire future-ready skills that will help them in their careers. . Virtual communication is a future-ready skill. School groups are accessible to the members of a certain institution. You can create a private group that only a few approved members will have access to. Private groups. Community groups .

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Neo LMS

MARCH 28, 2019

Furthermore, there are learning apps such as these that enhance the students learning experience and equip them with future-ready skills they need to apply for jobs of the future. Therefore, every student is required to abide by a code of conduct concerning the usage and material accessed on the device(s). One last thing.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Economically disadvantaged students get Wi-Fi access through backpacks. Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . CHECK IT OUT : Read what three K–12 leaders say about ensuring students have equal access to digital resources. Guest speakers from around the world enter classrooms through a screen.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 25, 2015

Portions of this post are adapted from the Future Ready Schools website with permission. The evolution of the Internet allows anyone with access the ability to communicate, collaborate, acquire information, and learn with anyone, at anytime, and from anywhere. Digital Leadership and Future Ready Recently the U.S.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This constant access to personalized assistance ensures no student falls behind, making education more inclusive and effective for everyone. For students with accessibility needs, these learning experiences—adapted to their unique abilities, pace, and style— are a real boost.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 22, 2019

The book is meant to be a very accessible on-ramp into the idea of why we need different schools these days. Although the word ‘technology’ is in the title, at its heart this book is mostly about future-ready pedagogy and instructional design. The book has gotten good reviews so far.

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Neo LMS

MAY 19, 2020

Now, more than ever, higher education needs leadership that reflects its new avatar: leadership that’s not just future-ready, but future-forward. Education technology and the future of Higher Ed. Read more: How to create accessible e-learning design. Read more: 4 Examples of the best digital access initiatives.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity. Commit to Personalized Professional Learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Our AI deep dive resulted in the development of three guiding principles: high standards and expectations, future ready skills, and cultural proficiency. The three guiding principles have become the foundation which underpins all AI professional development, communication, and future planning.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Focus: EdTech Access and Advocacy. FRS (Future Ready Schools). This is a resource rich program supported by the non-profit Alliance for Excellent Education , and is specifically designed to offer districts an actionable, stepped program that they can follow to become a “future-ready school”. Level: K12. Level: K12.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 11, 2018

Kathleen: No, not everyone is doing something different in the classroom, but the learner’s actually having some choice in what they do and how they access information. Well, here’s what they represent: Access means how a learner would access and process information. Using the lens of Access, Engage, and Express.

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techlearning

JUNE 27, 2018

Today, Future Ready Schools (FRS)—led by the Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed)—announced Future Ready Technology Leaders™ (FRS Tech Leaders)—the latest expansion of the FRS initiative—aimed at empowering school and district technology leaders to better connect their practices, policies, and procedures to educational innovation in schools.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

To help overcome this, we have adopted the Future Ready Schools Framework , a systematic approach to scaling innovative digital learning practices while promoting long-term sustainability. In January 2016, the team collectively took a district self-assessment to gauge BWRSD’s digital learning readiness. Digital Learning Teams.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 28, 2022

Student autonomy in the classroom is also essential for their future careers. Equipping students with future-ready skills is one of the main aspects educational institutions should focus on nowadays. Save time on looking for resources on their own; Get instant access to tailored content; Enjoy a variety of resources.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

But we rarely foster ‘future ready’ policies, instructional and leadership practices, or school organizational redesigns. We do a great deal of research and teaching on interesting and important topics. We speak out against the marginalization of underserved and underrepresented groups.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

The STEM+CS team develops every opportunity from a lens of inclusion and accessibility for all. Equity of opportunity accessibility is first and foremost in every initiative within STEM+CS. Preparing future global innovators takes a district-wide team of facilitators, classroom teachers and school administrators.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

This is one of the principles championed by Future Ready Schools (FRS), a project of the policy and advocacy organization, Alliance for Excellent Education. FRS helps district leaders plan and implement personalized, research-based digital learning strategies to help all students achieve their full potential. What the program offers.

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Tom Murray

MAY 16, 2016

Recent news coverage and social media conversations about student data access, especially as it relates to outside service providers, have heightened the public’s overall interest in the use and security of student data. Future Ready Schools. All for the kids we serve, Thomas C. Director of Innovation.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

With tablets, smartphones, and access to computers, students can search for answers to their questions in a way that wouldn’t have seen possible a decade ago. Richard Byrne, blogger, speaker, and former high school social studies teacher.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2018

At every single phase of my visit—from checking in, to the nurse evaluation, to accessing my chart for lab work—this new system wreaked havoc. As aligns with our mission to promote and make more accessible free and open education resources, most of the tools needed to develop learner resilience are free.

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