A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 13, 2011

At our District Open House this Thursday, I plan to Skype the group in from Europe to kick off the event. The theme for the event is appropriately centered around what it is like to be a student in the 21st Century. ? It is an exciting time to be in education. Technology has really added a whole new dimension to learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2010

As simple as these technologies are to use, and as accepted as they are at NMHS, they mystify teachers at other schools. Earlier this year New Milford High School hosted the first ever Tri-State Education Technology Conference. educational technology New Milford High School Opinion Student Guest Blogger'

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MAY 28, 2014

Putting in countless hours developing lessons, grading, providing feedback, observing teachers, providing professional growth activities, constructing a master schedule, formulating a budget, attending events, and writing letters of recommendation are just a few of the myriad of tasks that educators across an array of positions engage in every day.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology to develop and share the 2020 National Educational Technology Plan. The National Education Technology Plan (NETP) is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. Department of Education.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2014

Students created a timeline of the key events that helped shape space exploration, answered questions using the Padlet website, and created travel brochures of a planet of their choosing within our solar system - using the NASA website and additional resources to obtain information from.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC) : I have previously blogged about this event, but am compelled to mention it again. This is going to be a great opportunity for my staff to truly experience the power inherent in educational technology when combined with pedagogy.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2011

This Thursday (5/19) the NJ School Boards Association will be visiting New Milford High School to host a live event called Learn@Lunch: Technology as an Engagement Tool. Here is a description: Across New Jersey, schools are focused on 21st Century Learning and integrating technology in the classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 1, 2014

We have been honored to have met so many marvelous educators and through them, their students. Whether at schools, over tweets, or at events like SXSWedu and ISTE 2014, what a privilege it has been to share our tool in this way, at this time. Buncee educational technology Marie Arturi Shannon Miller'

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Probably the most significant is the Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC) that will be held at New Milford High School on Saturday October 2, 2010. This event came together so quickly as a result of a conversation I had with Schoology as we threw around some ideas on how we could collaborate.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

Let me begin by saying that I was absolutely honored that various members of my Professional Learning Network (PLN) and the greater educational community reached out to me to address administrators looking to embrace social media, plan an educational technology conference at my school, and discuss leadership in the digital age.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Two of my Social Studies teachers were recently invited to Washington DC on October 4, 2012, to deliver a model lesson that illustrated the effective use of technology. For more information on this event check out the summary provided by ISTE.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2012

Adobe, a leader in providing creative tools to schools and educators, is preparing to announce some exciting news early next week. Live Streamed Webcast : On April 23rd, Adobe will be hosting a launch event to announce how the company is reinventing creative software with the first release of Adobe Creative Cloud and the new Creative Suite 6.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Their national conferences and competitions, such as the SkillsUSA event in Atlanta with 10,000 students competing in about 100 different areas, provide tangible examples of what students with well-developed soft skills look like. These events repeat several times a year across different organizations.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

And some parents have complained about the new bans, out of concerns that they would not be able to reach their children in the event of an emergency, such as a school shooting. “Before the restricted use of cellphones was prohibited, they were a social link, connecting students during lunch and hallway breaks,” the petition reads.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The Final Straw As I prepared to start my eighteenth year in education, a series of events eroded my trust in the system. I found myself dialing down my teacher self, showing up in ways that neither reflected nor respected my commitment to teaching and learning. These moments of silence and compliance were painful.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

Similarly, interoperability standards like Caliper Analytics and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) ensure that edtech tools can work together without disruption when institutions switch vendors or adopt new technologies. This structured approach eliminates silos and makes data actionable in real time.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

The basis of any AI education would have to be rooted in critical thinking, he explains, how to ask good questions and evaluate the answers. You look at the results and say, That doesn't even match up with reality of what I know about this historical event, Just says.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

The USDOE’s Office of Educational Technology places emphasis on students and educators having access to a robust and comprehensive infrastructure when and where they need it for learning. Over the years we have seen more embracement of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and 1:1 device rollouts.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Doctors who notice patients experiencing reactions to vaccines are asked to report to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which facilitates this information being aggregated, analyzed and disseminated to other physicians. As many reading this probably know, our nation’s education “system” is no system at all.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2025

Not only did he award me an Excellence in Art Award at the end of the year, but, with the help of other teachers, he provided me opportunities to use my talents for my school by creating banners and posters for school dances and other events. These opportunities lead me to join the student council in middle school.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 5, 2016

These collaborative tools can be used to: Make thinking and learning visible Check for understanding Review prior learning Close lessons Provide the means for others to pose questions Allow large masses to openly respond and interact with each other Craft multimedia responses Collect perception data Backchannel a class or event Openly reflect and discuss (..)

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 13, 2015

But every year I wish more of the keynotes were actually helpful to our technology integration and implementation efforts. It is an educational technology conference, after all, and we have lots of needs in the actual topic area of the conference. News and Events Tech Integration Josh Stumpenhorst news'

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

You can see all the events the 1EdTech staff hosts and attends, including the annual 1EdTech Digital Credentials Summit , as well as learn more about the organization’s work in digital credentials at 1edtech.org.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

More than $1 billion in headline-grabbing transactions are likely to be announced at the event. Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2015

Not including the more informal networking events, there generally are 3 kinds of ISTE sessions: Tools, tools, tools! Technology for school replication. Learning technologies tend to be divergent rather than convergent, foster cognitive complexity, and facilitate active, creative student-driven learning. We need more of #3.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Some of the students in my informal lunch crew will bring me food whenever their cultural club has an event or fundraiser. I have enjoyed homemade falafel wraps, pupusas, and lumpia, and if I am not particularly hungry, I never hesitate to offer a falafel or tear my pupusa in half to split with whatever random student asks.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To this endeavor, we leverage community spaces, both online and through in-person and virtual events, to connect learners within districts, across districts and across cohorts in different stages of implementation. This collaborative approach is heightened through our promotion of online professional learning communities.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 3, 2010

On a crisp, sunny Saturday morning in October, approximately 400 passionate educators congregated at New Milford High School for the Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC). We didn’t know what to expect, but were committed to planning and delivering an event that would have a positive impact on all who attended.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

But last month, just a few months after the fanfare of the public launch event, the district abruptly shut down its Ed chatbot, after the company it contracted to build the system, AllHere Education, suddenly furloughed most of its staff citing financial difficulties.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

When people outside of school ask you what you do say, at a social event how do you describe your work? My mantra now is: I'm a successful educator and businesswoman. I'm a second-year doctoral student in educational leadership. Since 2010, I've been here as the school librarian and media specialist.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

Through multi-language translation and summarization capabilities, AI ensures that important information from school board meetings, teacher-family communications and other critical events is accessible and comprehensible to all members of the school community, regardless of their primary language.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Recently, I attended the 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Portland, Oregon, hosted by NTEN , to catch up on the newest trends in educational technology (edtech) and learn about cutting-edge tools that may be integrated to boost adult learning and workforce development initiatives at Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

They created stations for students, taught parents key math and reading skills so they could better support their child at home, and gained experience running a schoolwide event, learning valuable skills from start to finish. Parents and school administrators were amazed at how well teenagers put together a community event.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

With other current events, I’m quick to brush up on the latest news, curating articles for my students to discuss in class. Why would one of the world’s biggest athletic events be any different? If the aforementioned events are any indication, it seems impossible to overestimate the significant role soccer plays in many of their lives.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

The letter is meant to persuade as many governors as possible to commit to the infrastructure to make computer science a central part of K-12 education. The National Governors Association holds an annual event called the K-12 Chairman’s Initiative, which gathers governors from across the country to cooperate on public policy.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speakers at the event were, at times, frank about the existential crisis that higher education is facing during this moment with spiking tuition and student debt levels, rising skepticism of the value of college and following a period of emergency remote learning that exposed many students to online alternatives to campus learning.

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