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The Surprisingly Low-Tech Way Schools Are Keeping Students Off Tech

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A growing number of entertainers, including Chapelle and musicians Jack White and John Mayer, prohibit the use of mobile devices during their performances. What do Dave Chapelle shows and a growing number of schools have in common? You can’t use your cell phone in either places.

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New book! Different Schools for a Different World

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If schools are to genuinely prepare graduates to compete in a technology-infused information landscape, they must stop acting as they did when learning and teaching primarily occurred in analog formats.

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?Resource: McLeod-Shareski Book on Changing Schools

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Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver Scott McLeod, and author, speaker and 2010 ISTE Outstanding Leader of the Year Dean Shareski released a book in September that describes six gaps between what most of today’s schools teach and what students and society need from them.

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Opinionated Guide to Changing Edtech Industry Conferences

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K-12 classrooms as a 1:1 mobile device. We believe it is a reflection of education becoming an increasingly interdisciplinary conversation,” he said. Five years later, these developments didn’t just upend the classroom. Much networking gets done at the many meetups, receptions, and parties. Draw: Festival!

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How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies

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Space impacts learning, even more so when you are trying to do innovative teaching. About 125 students and a faculty team that teaches core classes, such as English, math, science and social ­studies, are assigned exclusively to each neighborhood. “It Studies show that modern learning environments improve student performance.

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