Try these five simple strategies to make learning more accessible for all students.
Authentic project-based learning involves connecting students with global learning opportunities so they can learn how to collaborate to solve problems, express themselves appropriately and develop their advocacy skills.
TAGS: Global collaboration ISTE Standards for Students Project-based learning Student empowerment
Each year more of our students become tethered to electronic devices for communication, entertainment and information. This connectivity opens up a channel to learning, but it also invites a barrage of media messages that students must learn to interpret.
TAGS: Literacies Standards
Educator and author Kristen Mattson, Ed.D., has a bone to pick with a lot of the digital citizenship curricula. Too much of it, she says, focuses on what not to do, and it rarely addresses the opportunities and responsibilities of the digital world.
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Getting stakeholders on board with your vision is a critical component to keeping your school or district moving forward and ensuring the success of a large-scale change effort.
TAGS: 1:1 Learning spaces Standards
When students pair up to learn programming, they gain more confidence, achieve higher test scores and have more fun than students who learn on their own.
TAGS: Coding & robotics Computational thinking
Fact Vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News is a new ISTE book designed to equip educators with tools and resources to help students discern fact from fiction in the information they access not only at school, but on the devices they carry in their pockets and backpacks.
ISTE and the Computer Science Teachers Association collaborated on a series of resources designed to help prepare young learners to become computational thinkers who understand how today's digital tools can help solve tomorrow's problems.
TAGS: Computational thinking
Our job as citizens requires more than just being informed. We must also be vigilant about verifying information before posting it on social media.
The most compelling topics among educators who embrace technology for learning and teaching are not about the tech at all, but about the students. And that’s a good thing.
TAGS: ISTE Conference & Expo
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Imaging technology has dramatically affected the experience of K-12 teaching and overall classroom dynamics.