Mapping a Difference: Building Spatial Thinking Skills Across the Curriculum

How can principals best demonstrate technology in their schools? While it doesn't make sense for principals to be creating daily lessons, an effective school leader can effectively encourage technology for her staff. This session focuses on why and how, as well as examples for demonstrating technology commitment to a faculty.

In this student-produced keynote, Joyce and the students of Springfield Township High School’s Theatre II class consider which apps are the most critical as they walk the road together.

This presentation reviews a recent study investigateing whether a one-to-one laptop program could help improve English language arts (ELA) test scores of upper elementary students. After two years’ participation in the program, laptop students outperformed non-laptop students on changes in the ELA total score, writing strategies, and literary response and analysis.

This presentation includes ways to incorporate web conferencing into instruction to enrich learning activities with students.

A Service Catalog is an ITIL tool that IT organizations use to describe and communicate about the services offered to the school system. This is a case study of how Arlington Public Schools implemented their Information Services Service Catalog. Get helpful process and sample documents.

Education is shifting from directed to constructivist learning, largely aided by the expansion of technology in the classroom. Instead of feeling threatened by the knowledge students bring to the classroom, teachers must learn to embrace students’ skills with technology and implement students’ strengths into the classroom environment.

This presentation proposes a contrast between technologies for learning and technologies for learners to explain how technologies influence teaching and learning in and out of schools.

Come join Ellen Minter, the President of the North Carolina ISTE affiliate, to learn what's happening on the ground at the 2010 conference, as well as what NCTIES has planned for upcoming initiatives!

In this presentation you will learn how to use Glogster to "pull" together a webquest that you can use with students and some other basic tips for using Glogster in your classroom.

Join this discussion on how we can move our school libraries forward to being the crossroads of learning.