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Trust, Technology, and Transformation: Embracing the Student-Centered Classroom

Catlin Tucker

This creates tension when I guide educators in exploring alternative instructional models that use technology strategically. These technology-enhanced instructional models require more from students in terms of self-regulation and self-directed learning. They also necessitate that teachers trust their students.

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5 ways to use technology for classroom creativity

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Technology has made creative opportunities more accessible for teachers and students. With the use of technology, students are better able to apply their knowledge in different ways and be creative in their learning. Why creativity? Creativity is an essential skill for all students to have.

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CompTIA Spark introduces free high-quality technology curriculum for middle grade classrooms

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Responding to a critical gap in technology education, CompTIA Spark has launched free technology curriculum specifically for middle grade classrooms, grades 5-8. Getting students excited about technology and growing their confidence with hands-on learning is critical at the middle school level.

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Technology as a bridge–not a shortcut–to student relationships

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Technological advances in recent decades mean that we don’t have to let history repeat itself, even as segregation persists. Alongside critical, ongoing efforts to integrate schools, education systems can turn to technology tools for forging new relationships across economic divides. In other words, hope is not a strategy.

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E-rate insight protects school technology infrastructure

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Key points: Schools still rely on E-rate funds to upgrade and protect their technology infrastructures Will cybersecurity receive E-rate funding? Despite making significant technological advances over the past two decades, schools still rely on E-rate funds to upgrade and protect their technology infrastructures.

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Ready, set, safe: Communication and technology for school safety

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By prioritizing critical components like best-of-breed communication technology, school leaders can ensure their integrated safety plan will help minimize emergencies and significantly contribute to the academic growth and wellbeing of students and staff. What do they need to feel prepared and equipped to respond?

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5 vocabulary strategies powered by technology

eSchool News

After seven years in the classroom teaching middle and high school students, I transitioned into instructional technology, where I currently serve as a digital integration specialist for South Carolinas Anderson School District Five. I once witnessed a class participating in this activity.