12 Google Slides Resources That Will Make Your Day
Contributor: Kasey Bell Google Slides is my absolute FAVORITE G Suite tool! It is really the most versatile tool in the Google toolbox. So today, I’m giving you 12 …
Author: Future of Education Technology Conference
The Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC), the largest, national, independent education technology conference, annually attracts thousands of education and technology leaders from around the world. Delivering strategies and best practices for student success and schoolwide advancement, FETC is known as one of the nation’s premier education technology events! Recognized for its outstanding program year after year, FETC provides CTOs, CIOs, Innovation Directors, Special Ed/Pupil Services Directors, Early Childhood Directors, Media Specialists, Technologists, Administrators and other Educators, the opportunity to explore the most effective integration of technology across the curriculum — from preK-12 — through premium sessions, intensive workshops, various concurrent sessions, live demonstrations of several hundred hardware and software products, plus much more. Visit www.FETC.org for more details.
20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom
Contributor: Kasey Bell Let’s make sure we are all on the same page when it comes to formative assessment, or what I like to refer to as, “Assessment FOR …
First-Ever Mega Sessions Announced for 2019 Future of Education Technology Conference
Six Mega Sessions will bring FETC’s most popular presenters and topics to the keynote stage PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.―The National Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) has announced that …
Distant Discovery: Virtual Field Trips from the Classroom
Contributor: Jon Roepke A hot area in K-12 education technology is giving students immersive learning experiences. As a director of product management at an EdTech company, my job is to …
Rapidly Changing the Education Mindset
Contributor: Dr. Rod Berger “In education, we have an industry that is filled with passionate people who don’t see their situations as jobs,” Ryan Schaaf says. “They see it as …
Putting the “U” in Education Technology
Contributor: Dr. Rod Berger About four years ago, Jeff Madlock and David Henderson were sitting at an Arkansas burger joint eating lunch and reminiscing about working on the radio, a …
No-Box Thinking: Looking Beyond Conventional and Unconventional Solutions
Contributor: Dr. Rod Berger Knowing that anything was possible in the early days of space exploration allowed thinking to be free from the conventional. Young people were inspired to …
The Case for Creativity in STEAM
Contributor: Sylvia Martinez Creativity is not just being artistic or having new ideas. As many schools are working to incorporate STEM and STEAM into the classroom, design and creativity are …
Words matter – gender bias in makerspaces
Contributor: Sylvia Martinez In a new study from Drexel University, researchers found that makerspace facilitators betray gender bias when talking about their students. Instructors primarily referred to male students as “geeks”, …
Making and ELL: Conversational Confidence
Contributor: Sylvia Martinez In a new study from Drexel University, researchers found that makerspaces help students learning English to feel more confident using their new language skills. Making Culture: A …