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Checking Your Edtech Assumptions

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The methodology, more practical than scientific, posed three central questions: Have you ever used edtech tools [in a given category]? With the answers to these questions, attendees self-identified themselves into one of four levels of expertise: I’m totally, completely winging it [when it comes to understanding product assumptions].

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities. Frameworks provide mental models, but “don’t usually help educators know what to do differently,” argues technology leadership expert Scott McLeod in his latest book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning.

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ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking

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ISTE Administrator Standards A-2, ISTE Teacher Standards T-2, ISTE Coach Standards C-2. This will NOT be a sit-and-get session with a few questions at the end. Julie was one of four coaches in the state of Iowa to first be trained in Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW). The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013.