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  • Make your voice heard during this unprecedented opportunity to increase funding for school broadband across the nation. Share your story about how broadband connectivity is facilitating learning and teaching in your classroom, school or district and providing students with a rich 21st century education. Explain how broadband connectivity is critical to your work, and outline any challenges you face due to insufficient broadband connectivity. ISTE will submit your story to the Federal Communications Commission in the official record.
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3 Tips on Integrating Technology in the Classroom - US News - 0 views

  • Integrating technology into a high school classroom isn't a one-step process. "You can't just slap a netbook [computer] on top of a textbook and say, 'Great, now we have technology," says Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, an advocacy organization.Wise says that digital learning starts with teachers, whose performance is enhanced by technology—not the other way around. That's also the idea of Digital Learning Day, which the Alliance is spearheading.
  • ning practices," says Sarah Hall, director of the Alliance's Center for Secondary School Digital Learning and Policy.
  • K-12 instructors who successfully bring technology into the classroom by assigning online course content, using adaptive software for students with special needs, and utilizing online student assessments and other digital tools. Educators, as well as parents, students, librarians, and community leaders, can learn about classroom innovations and get new ideas by chiming in during the virtual National Town Hall meeting held on Digital Learning Day
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  • 1. Plan ahead: There has to be a comprehensive strategy in place to implement technology into the school system, Wise says, and the teachers have to be involved in the planning stages."When a school says, 'OK, we want to use technology better,' you have to develop your goals and what learning outcomes you're trying to reach," Wise says. School leaders and teachers must then think about the "three T's," he adds, which ask how teach
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    Technology starts with the teachers!
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    this is written by the government about tips to use in a classrooms. it is interesting. read it. 
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    This is a good site for ways teachers can integrate technology into the classroom. This article gives 3 tips on how teachers can add technology into their classrooms.
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    This article explains 3 tips on how to integrate technology in the classroom. The three tips were plan ahead, try something new, and become an educational designer. 
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