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Copyright and Filtering Issues for Schools in the 21st Century

Schools in the 21st Century must contend with a variety of challenges stemming from the use of modern technologies in the classroom environment. This article focuses on two of the most prevalent issues faced by school administrators and teachers today–that of copyright compliance and protecting students from inappropriate web content.
The need for further treatment of [...]

ISTE’s Top Ten in ’10: Final Priorities for 2010

We are graduating students into a world defined by communications technologies that could hardly have been imagined a decade ago. To ensure our students are ready for this technologically enhanced existence we need to constantly reaffirm our commitment to improving classroom technology and skills-based learning.
Our final two priorities call for focusing on technology as the [...]

ISTE CEO Don Knezek Weighs in on Obama’s FY11 Budget

Don Knezek, CEO of ISTE, expressed concern over President Obama’s plan to’consolidate’ the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program in the 2011 budget. However, the current administration’s commitment to infusing technology in the k-12 curriculum is encouraging.
Click here to read Knezek’s full statement.
How do you think Obama’s 2011 budget plans will impact education?

Supporting Expertise and Integration of Tech. Skills into Teacher Evaluation

The countdown continues for ISTE’s Top Ten in ’10 education technology priorities.
To ensure that technological expertise is considered an integral part of an educator’s skill set, staying on top of technological advances must be one of the criteria on which an educator is judged. To that end, ISTE has named the measurement of skill development [...]

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Do ISTE’s “Top Ten in ‘10” Ed Tech Priorities Reflect Your Issues?

Welcome to 2010 and to this ISTE Connects conversation!  From my home base in Washington DC, it looks to be a New Year full of possibility and challenge.  We face daunting budget deficits at all levels of government and find ourselves struggling to maintain robust funding for classroom technology.
As part of ISTE’s advocacy efforts this [...]

Crowdsourcing: Reflections on the Final Phase of Our Experiment

In his book, The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki discusses four key qualities that make a crowd of people “smart”. The crowd must be diverse, decentralized, independent, and it needs a way of summarizing people’s opinions into one collective verdict. In ISTE’s first fully crowdsourced keynote, we’ve done our best to tap into the wisdom [...]

ISTE Members are Leaders

Do you have what it takes to help us transform education? Here’s your opportunity to help lead ISTE! The ISTE Board Nominations Committee is seeking outstanding educational technology leaders to serve on the ISTE Board of Directors.  ISTE members can nominate visionary leaders — including themselves — beginning January 5, 2010.
Nominations will be accepted through [...]

Crowdsourcing ISTE 2010 Keynote – Phase 2

We’re pleased to announce the ISTE 2010 Keynote Crowdsource project has moved into Phase 2!
Go to Keynote Project to check out our five most popular topic areas and learn how to nominate the person you think should be the featured keynote speaker at ISTE 2010 in Denver.
Here’s the blog post outlining the project: Schooling Together

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