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The Tennessee Educational Technology Association: A blueprint for success

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TETA’s membership has expanded from technology coordinators and IT staff to teachers, instructional coaches, and virtual school educators. In addition to offering three learning networks, TETA hosts two major conferences each year: the Summer Institute Conference and the Tennessee Educational Technology Conference (TETC).

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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. to asking “Will it work for whom?”

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ISTE launches four new initiatives to improve edtech experiences

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Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. “To Give schools more control over their digital culture. Having an effective digital culture is a prerequisite for having a healthy school culture,” Culatta asserted. To put it more bluntly, we believe life is too short for sucky learning.”

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Trimming the Edtech Fat: How Districts Are Streamlining Their Digital Ecosystems

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Cot, assistant director of educational technology for the Massachusetts education department. The process is part of a five-year plan to build an accountability culture around edtech use. Reflection grounded in evidence, equity, and community voice is what many hope defines the next era of educational technology.

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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

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Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. Researchers acknowledge that aversion to math is so strong in our culture that at a certain point, being bad at math became a shared cultural identity.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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The result: high school teachers often expend their time creating classroom resources instead of developing a rich classroom culture that pulls students in, he adds. But in high school, teachers more typically create their own curriculum, despite a lack of training how to design curriculum.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

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Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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