By September 27, 2016 Tags: FLedChat, grants, twitter
Category: #FLedChat, for Teachers, Grants, Member Benefit No Comments 
Newsela, a 3-year-old startup that promotes literacy in K-12 education, gives teachers curated news articles to share with their students. With the help of intelligent software that adjusts article text to match a student’s reading level, teachers can use comprehension quizzes to get immediate feedback when kids are stumped. Newsela is currently in 75% …
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By September 16, 2016 Category: ESE Corner, for Teachers No Comments
By September 15, 2016 Tags: free, iste, PD
Category: for Teachers, ISTE, Member Benefit, Mobile Devices, Professional Development No Comments
ISTE 2017 will be in San Antonio, June 25-28, 2017.
Submit your proposal for a session, poster or workshop here: https://conference.iste.org/2017/presenters/submit_proposal.php…
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By September 14, 2016 Category: Board No Comments
Check out http://blog.cue.org/screens-are-not-a-hoax/
CUE — the California affiliate of ISTE — has provided this rebuttal to the TIME.com editorial from Aug. 31, 2016, by Dr. Nicholas Kardaras titled “Screens in Schools are a $60 Billion Hoax.” Dr. Kardaras is a licensed social worker who runs a center for addicted teens in New York.
Another …
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By September 14, 2016 Category: Board No Comments
Norma Jennings received the Making IT Happen award at FETC 2016.
Norma had been the FSTE Region 1 president in the Panhandle area and served as FSTE president in 2011. Currently she is FSTE treasurer.
Norma recently retired from a long career with Escambia County Public Schools, where she started as a teacher of students …
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By September 14, 2016 Category: Board, Focus No Comments
The Technology Education Resource & Redesign Alliance, Inc. (TERRA, Inc.) is a non- profit organization whose mission is to mobilize the resources, knowledge, and capacity of individuals, foundations, business and industry in shaping and facilitating educational policy, practice, and research for increased achievement in a global environment.
TERRA, Inc. is accepting applications from …
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By September 7, 2016 Category: Board 2 Comments