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"ISTE is proud to introduce the white paper, Technology, Coaching, and Community: Power Partners for Improved Professional Development in Primary and Secondary Education."

Full length video of Chris Lehman's closing keynote speech at ISTE 2011.

Don Knezek, CEO of ISTE, shares, "After a decade at the helm of a vibrant and increasingly international association, I'm more convinced than ever that we must move our education system into the digital age. How else can we prepare our children with the skills and literacies they'll need to thrive in school, work, and civic life? That's what we want for them, isn't it? Then let's get started."

"Preparing students for their future in a rapidly changing world. A video from ISTE, CSTA, and NSF."

The poem performed at the close of the ISTE keynote by Lehmann's students

Sometimes teachers and administrators need a kick in the pants to see what they perceive as problems re-framed in a different way. Adam S. Bellow, author of The Tech Commandments, and founder of eduTecher, spoke to a roomful of receptive teachers at the recent ISTE 2011 conference, and demonstrated some of the ironies and contradictions the education system is mired in. And he had some advice.

This is the walkthrough form used at the school that Chris Lehmann is principal of. Lehmann was the closing note speaker at ISTE2011.

This panel was one I wanted to get into but it was closed very quickly (should have been in a bigger room). So great they are publishing some of the best questions posed in the session.

"Dr. John Medina, author of "Brain Rules," is a developmental molecular biologist and research consultant. He is the director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University. He also teaches at the University of Washington School of Medicine, in its Department of Bioengineering. You can visit him online at www.brainrules.net"