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The George Lucas Educational Foundation highlights best practices in education, not just in educational technology. They also publish a great free magazine for educators called Edutopia. You can sign up for a free copy at this web site. - Lucy

The George Lucas Educational Foundation highlights best practices in education, not just in educational technology. They also publish a great free magazine for educators called Edutopia. You can sign up for a free copy at this web site. - Lucy

The George Lucas Educational Foundation highlights best practices in education, not just in educational technology. They also publish a great free magazine for educators called Edutopia. You can sign up for a free copy at this web site. - Lucy

"Common Core has stuck a fork in this one. If teachers were clinging gamely to the hope that they could retire before being forced to add tech to their classrooms, they just lost that race. The new Common Core Standards mention 'technology in the classroom' and 'digital devices' at least twenty-seven times I counted as tools for accomplishing the goals of college and career. Technology is required for all the significant K-8 goals, including publishing, sharing, constructing knowledge, deep learning, close reading. Consider these (truncated for brevity):"

makers and creators of their own educational lives