Inspiring New Futures

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2012/10/3-steps-flipping-classroom Flexibility and collaboration are key ingredients to any flipped classroom recipe. Dan Spencer, a former teacher who now serves as an educational technology consultant for the Jackson County (Mich.) Intermediate School District, offers these tips for flipping a classroom.

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2012/10/how-schools-used-technology-share-hurricane-sandy-updates School districts employ an arsenal of technologies to update their communities about closings caused by Hurricane Sandy.

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2012/10/schools-provide-teachers-training-tools-flipping-classroom Equipping classrooms with technology is a good start, but schools also need to train teachers how to integrate those tools into their lessons and make learning more engaging for students. Teachers seem to be demanding it, in fact. According to  CDW•G's Learn Now, Lecture Later report ,  76 percent of high school IT professionals have received more teacher requests for help with technology integration  and related professional development over the past two years.

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2012/10/how-office-365-education-changing-way-schools-operate Microsoft’s move to make many of its suite of cloud-based productivity tools free to K–12 users could transform teaching and learning.

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2012/11/6-hot-trends-educational-technology-infographic  No one can predict the future. But that’s never stopped us from trying. Educators are notorious for this. Just imagine how much money and effort we’d save if we could somehow convince the Magic 8 Ball to tell us exactly what our schools and classrooms will look like five, 10, even 20 years from right now?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/nyregion/pathways-in-technology-early-college-high-school-takes-a-new-approach-to-vocational-education.html?pagewanted=all The building and its surroundings in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, may look run-down, but inside 150 Albany Avenue may sit the future of the country’s vocational education: The first 230 pupils of a new style of school that weaves high school and college curriculums into a six-year program tailored for a job in the technology industry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19661899 Imagine taking a university exam in your own home, under the watchful eye of a webcam or with software profiling your keystrokes or your syntax to see whether it really is you answering the questions.