Truths About HIPPA and FERPA: Blog Post 1/7/2020

Google's FUTURE OF THE CLASSROOM Report (August 2019)

ASCD Feb 2019 Issue

• Reader's Guide / Getting Smarter About Ed Tech Anthony Rebora
• Sparking Student Agency with Technology Why should kids have to wait until after school to do amazing things with technology?
• Smart Classroom-Tech Integration By asking the right questions, school leaders can coach teachers to use technology to drive deeper learning.
• Creating a Shared Vision How one district reworked a failed ed-tech strategy to transform learning.
• Teaching Our Way to Digital Equity How can educators ensure that technology-rich learning experiences aren't restricted to the most privileged students?
• "I Can See It!": Math Understanding Through Virtual Reality Letting students engage with materials in a virtual environment can enhance math learning.
• New Realities Virtual and augmented reality programs can provide uniquely immersive personalized learning experiences.
• Making Magic at "High-Tech Hogwarts" How an inner-city charter school is using technology to reimagine teaching and learning.
• In Tech Rollouts, Don't Forget the Teachers Before launching a schoolwide technology initiative, leadership must build a sustainable professional learning infrastructure.
• Protective Measures School ed-tech initiatives are only as cool as the data-privacy safeguards that undergird them.
• It's Not About the Tools Ed-tech training needs to go beyond specific tools and enable teachers with an adaptable, creative mindset.
• Assistive Technology: Promises Fulfilled From a teacher's perspective, assistive technology should be the starting point of school ed-tech strategies.
• Big Tech, Little Change? Technology doesn't change much in schools unless educators can push past convention.
• Show & Tell: A Video Column / The Micro-Teaching Advantage Videotaping a teacher's practice makes for a better debrief, more learning. Watch the video.
• Leading Together / Tuning in to Teachers' Voices If a teacher talks in a forest and no one hears, does she make a sound?
• Confronting Inequity / No More "Waiting on 16" Honor students' experiences to curb the school pushout problem.
• One to Grow On / Diving Beneath the Surface Using ed tech effectively requires a second-order change.

InnovateExchange

The NJDOE is pleased to announce InnovateExchange, a new online collaboration portal that permits educators to connect with other educators throughout the state. The program began three years ago with an initial cohort of districts, and is now being expanded to include all interested districts. By bringing together like-minded educators and administrators in an environment of openness and collaboration, more educators will be able to implement and scale next-generation models of teaching and learning.

40 Most Popular Ed-Tech Tools in K-12 (December 2017)

New Digital Literacy Resources from Teaching Tolerance (Nov 2017)

The internet is an amazing tool for teaching and learning. But, before we can teach students to harness its power and become good citizens of the web, we need to understand how it works and how it can be manipulated to mislead and even harm users. Our brand-new framework, lessons, videos and PD resources can help you get started today!

K-12 Horizon Report 2017

What is on the five-year horizon for K-12 schools worldwide? Which trends and technologies will drive educational change? What are the challenges that we consider as solvable or difficult to overcome, and how can we strategize effective solutions?

MAKE: Maker Spaces

Makerspaces represent the democratization of design, engineering, fabrication, and education.

"On Social Media, Principals Fight Losing Battle to Keep Up With Students" EDweek April 2018

COPPA and Schools: The (Other) Federal Student Privacy Law, Explained EDweek 2017

Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?

Parents, therapists and schools are struggling to figure out whether helping anxious teenagers means protecting them or pushing them to face their fears.

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

How 3 School Systems Are Moving to OER

Educators and administrators from three K-12 school systems discuss how they're using online educational resources to transform teaching and learning.

Gaming to Learn

Educators are borrowing from escape rooms and are using breakout boxes to encourage students to collaborate, use what they've learned in class and break into a box secured by multiple locks.

Promoting STEM Through Robotics

Robots are playing a bigger role in the classroom, making lessons more active, kinesthetic and play-based.

Teaching Gifted Students with Real and Virtual Robots

How one district is deploying robots to embody concepts in science, math, ELA and social studies.

School Districts Grapple with Web Accessibility

More are adopting policies that make sites more available to those with disabilities; however, the future is uncertain under a new administration.

Using Technology to Improve Schools and Learning I

Using Technology to Improve Schools and Learning II

Using Technology to Improve Schools and Learning III

Using Technology Assessment Module