Q & A Collections: Using Tech In The Classroom - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Here are links to all the columns on Using Tech In The Classroom from the past six years!

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Teachers: How Are You Getting Students Ready for Future Jobs? - Teacher Beat - Education Week

We want to hear from teachers: What skills do you think we should teach students to prepare them for the jobs of the future?

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What Skills Are You Teaching Students to Prepare Them for Jobs of the Future? - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

Education Week wants to hear from educators: In an age of automation and artificial intelligence, what skills do students need to learn in school to prepare for the workforce?

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Skip Coding, Teach Data Science - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week

While there is high demand for coding skills today, artificial intelligence will increasingly take over routine coding jobs as it grows in sophistication. The longer term and larger employment and impact opportunities for today's students lie in data science

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Iowa teachers spend summer learning at 'externship' - Education Week

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COPPA and Schools: The (Other) Federal Student Privacy Law, Explained - Education Week

What schools need to know about the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, via education lawyers, privacy experts, with new information from the FTC.

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The FTC on COPPA: 5 New Takeaways for Schools and Ed-Tech Companies - Digital Education - Education Week

The Federal Trade Commission provided Education Week with new information about what the Children's Online Privacy Protection Acts means for schools and ed-tech companies.

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Is Digital Equity the Civil Rights Issue of the Day? - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12 - Education Week

Is digital equity the civil rights issue of the day?

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States Adopt STEM Seals for High School Diplomas - Education Week

Colorado is the latest state to create an endorsement in science, technology, engineering, and math for students who succeed in rigorous courses in those fields. Will the new credential carry weight with colleges and employers?

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Congressional Panel Asks: What K-12 Skills Are Needed for STEM Workforce? - Digital Education - Education Week

Schools need to prepare K-12 students to fill the growing number of jobs that require computing skills, witnesses told members of Congress Wednesday.

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Google Launches $50 Million Effort on the Future of Work - Digital Education - Education Week

The philanthropic initiative will seek to connect job seekers with jobs, improve job training, and make life better for those in low-wage jobs.

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Guilford County's New Rubric Allows 'Everyone to Own Equity as a Priority' - Learning Forward's PD Watch - Education Week Teacher

With diversity in mind, Guilford County Schools in North Carolina is expanding professional learning options for teachers and ensuring that teachers have opportunities to go deeper in their learning.

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After Proposing $9 Billion Cut, Trump Making Salary Donation to Ed. Dept. - Politics K-12 - Education Week

President Donald Trump plans to donate his $100,000 salary for this quarter to the agency, to help pay for a camp focused oN science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM.

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Afghan Girls' Robotics Team Takes the World Stage (Video) - On Air: A Video Blog - Education Week

After having their visas denied twice, an all-girls team from Afghanistan has made it to the U.S. to compete in an international high school robotics competition.

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Robots, race cars and weather: Girl Scouts offer new badges - Education Week

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Schools, employers try to lure students to manufacturing - Education Week

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Teachers Shouldn't Work in Isolation, Kids Need a Team - Work in Progress - Education Week Teacher

Although friendships and relationships can go sour in school settings and grown-ups can act like the adolescents they teach, gossiping or back-stabbing, it is still necessary and fundamentally important to not be alone as a teacher. We must share our challenges and our successes and always strive to be a community of collegial learners who create the most welcoming environment for our kids.

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Trump Budget Endangers STEM Learning - Education Week

Cutting funding for out-of-school STEM enrichment programs will put some students further behind, writes funding expert Ron Ottinger of STEM Next.

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Big Island public schools' serious misconduct increases - Education Week

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Texas educators work to use technology to fight fake news - Education Week

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The Next Generation Science Standards' Next Big Challenge: Finding Curricula - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

Experts spell out some of the challenges to developing curricula aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.

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Big Venture Investments in HR Startups & What it Means for Education - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week

You might have noticed a flood of investment into human resource startups lately, as companies attempt to find the best and brightest employees using algorithms. So how does this affect the world of education?

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Rural Kentucky Eyes Microcredentials as a Professional-Development Solution - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

A consortium of rural school districts in Eastern Kentucky is experimenting with microcredentials as a way to personalize teacher learning.

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Minecraft Party to Raise Money for Technology in Philly Schools - Digital Education - Education Week

Philadelphia's mayor and superintendent announced a "kid-safe gaming event" aimed at raising funds for teacher-led classroom technology projects.

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The False Choice Between Vocational and Academic Education - Top Performers - Education Week

Marc Tucker challenges the notion that policy makers must choose between a strong academic education and vocational education.

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The Many Ways We Are De-Professionalizing Teaching - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

The policy goal here is de-professionalizing teaching, establishing it once and for all as a short-term, entry-level technical job designed to attract a revolving door of "community-minded" candidates, who will work diligently for cheap, then get out because they can't support a family or buy a home on a teacher's salary.

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Amazon's Open Educational Resources Website Gets Off to a Slow Start - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

A year after it was first announced, Amazon's open educational resources site, Inspire, is ready for teachers to use - mostly.

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Meet a Teacher Who Is Using Plants to Change Students' Lives - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

A teacher in the South Bronx borough of New York City built his classroom curriculum around the garden. A decade later, the seeds he planted have grown into a movement.

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Bill With More Than $2 Billion in Teacher-Training Cuts Advances in House - Politics K-12 - Education Week

The legislation would cut less from the U.S. Department of Education than President Donald Trump wanted, and now moves on to the full House of Representatives.

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FCC Nominees Grilled by Lawmakers on E-Rate, Net Neutrality - Digital Education - Education Week

Democratic lawmakers on a U.S. Senate committee probed Republican FCC nominees' positions on the E-rate program and net neutrality.

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Share of Girls Taking AP Computer Science Tests Grew in 2017 - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

Most of the growth was in a broader course that debuted over the past school year.

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Teachers' Union to Take a Critical Look at Online Credit Recovery Programs - Digital Education - Education Week

The National Education Association approved a $31,000 review of often-criticized online programs that give students a second chance to complete coursework.

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How States Can Boost Science Learning, Thanks to ESSA - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

Here's what states are doing—and could be doing—about science education with the help of the new federal law.

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Number of Girls Taking AP Computer-Science Exam More Than Doubles - Education Week

More girls than ever took an AP computer-science exam this year, Seattle nonprofit Code.org announced, calling the results "incredible."

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The Search for Real-World STEM Problems - Education Week

Challenging students with finding solutions to real-world problems will get them excited about science, technology, engineering, and math classes, writes Anne Jolly.

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Family Literacy on Your Smartphone - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12 - Education Week

A California grant funds blended adult education programs that bring thousands of ELLs closer to the American dream.

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Personalized Learning: 'A Cautionary Tale' - Education Week

Customizing instruction for every student can generate modest gains in math and reading scores, but it can create major implementation challenges for schools.

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Fierce Debate Over Sign-Language Use by Some Deaf Students - Education Week

A new study suggests long-term use of sign language may hold back the speech and reading skills of children who use cochlear implants to create a sense of sound.

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If We Fix Student Teaching, Will We Fix Teacher Shortages? - Teacher Beat - Education Week

The president of the National Council on Teacher Quality presented what she sarcastically called a "radical" solution for both improving the pipeline of new teachers and filling specific teacher shortages: "Fix student teaching."

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As Part of STEM Effort, Girl Scouts to Offer Cybersecurity Badges - Education Week

The Girl Scouts of the USA will soon offer badges in cybersecurity for girls in grades K-12 as part of a growing national effort to bring technological skill and digital savvy to America's schoolchildren.

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Straight Up Conversation: Abl CEO Adam Pisoni & Impact Guru Chris Walsh - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week

I had the chance to sit down last week with Adam Pisoni and Chris Walsh of Abl about the release of their new Master Scheduler, a dynamic school-scheduling platform intended to help schools and leaders rethink how they use and plan their time.

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Can Digital Equity Close the Achievement Gap? - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12 - Education Week

Answers the question, "can digital equity close the achievement gap?"

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Don't Just Do 'Station Rotation': 3 New Ways to Teach With Tech - Teacher Beat - Education Week

A new paper looks at how a handful of teachers have modified their use of the "station rotation" blended learning model to better serve their students.

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Spotlight on Professional Development - Education Week

Educators are combining time-tested strategies with new approaches to get the most out of literacy instruction in schools. In this Spotlight, learn how invented spelling can produce better readers, how teachers are using social media to connect students with authors, and how to teach revision in the writing process.

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Test results show slight improvement in student math scores - Education Week

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For Principals, Student Sexting a Speeding 'Freight Train,' Full of Peril - Digital Education - Education Week

For school leaders, sexting means worries about cellphone searches, bullying prevention, child pornography laws, and difficult conversations with students and parents.

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Games Can Help Preschoolers Learn Math Concepts, Study Finds - Early Years - Education Week

Researchers exposed preschoolers living in poverty in India to games designed to teach them math concepts related to numbers and geometry, and the students made learning gains.

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Ten Things I Learned Starting an Immersion School - Global Learning - Education Week

Advice from a 10-year-old immersion school in Denver.

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$2 Billion for Teacher Training, Salaries Eliminated in House Budget Plan - Teacher Beat - Education Week

The plan released by the U.S. House of Representatives differs from President Trump's proposal in many ways, except this glaring one: It would also eliminate Title II funds that go toward teacher professional development.

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Afghan girls will be allowed into US for robotics contest - Education Week

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