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The Need For Digital Literacy

A Principal's Reflections

The aspects of e-safety, critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and finding and evaluating information must all be addressed. Google Drive easily allows students to create blogs and sites that they can share and collaborate on with their peers. However, teaching digital literacy has its challenges.

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Forging Ahead With Change

A Principal's Reflections

In collaboration with my staff and the support of District leadership, my efforts have laid the foundation for an innovative teaching and learning culture that focuses on preparing all students for success. Change educational leadership educational technology Innovation Opinion' That and being digitally resilient.

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

Two years ago I had the incredible opportunity to work with the entire leadership team of District 59 in Arlington Heights, Illinois for SEVEN days. They labeled it their ‘21st Century Leadership Academy.’ And we can build on all of that to start implementing new instructional and leadership paradigms in schools and classrooms.

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Foster Social-Emotional Learning through Making

Digital Promise

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. This blog post is the first in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students. This cohort effort also informs updates and extensions to the Maker Learning Leadership Framework.

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Creating an Effective Learning Environment While Practicing Social Distancing

Dr. Shannon Doak

Your students will also need to share documents with each other, collaborate with each other, critically think, and create. GSFE is a fantastic set of tools that enable teachers and students to create, communicate, collaborate, and critically think. Making Thinking Visible with Technology , . Improving Learning.

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ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking

Dangerously Irrelevant

is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues. After 14 years as an Educational Leadership professor, Dr. McLeod currently serves as the Director of Innovation for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency in Iowa. 10 minutes – We will take a break! Scott McLeod, J.D.,

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Equipping Students with the “4Cs” through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Students must be problem solvers with deep critical thinking skills. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills refers to these four skills as the “ 4Cs ”: Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, and Critical Thinking. They must be able to look creatively at any situation to generate new solutions.