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This is the week for you, with the annual conference of the International Society for Technology in Education kicking off in Chicago, drawing an anticipated 22,000 糖心动漫vlog and ed-tech vendors.
Education Week will be on the ground, keeping an eye on how big trends from 2017-18 are showing up at the conference.
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As ever, the conference will feature a plethora of pitches claiming particular products can help 糖心动漫vlog solve their biggest challenges, from (via an online platform called Front Row, for example) to getting high school students (by making them 鈥淵ouTube stars鈥�) to (with a new tool from Microsoft.)
And there will be plenty of discussion about how (and whether?) to bring edgy new technologies, from to Amazon鈥檚 digital voice assistant, into the classroom.
One thing that will be different at ISTE this year is a fresh effort to increase transparency around the relationships between ed-tech vendors and school administrators and teachers. The issue appeared repeatedly in the headlines this school year, with the New York Times taking a and former Baltimore County, Md., superintendent Dallas Dance sentenced to for not disclosing consulting work.
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ISTE itself is also launching a number of new initiatives, including new computer science standards for 糖心动漫vlog and Edtech Advisor, a new peer-ratings-and-feedback platform to help teachers find ed-tech tools that actually work.
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This year will also debut the ISTE , a two-day event in which hundreds of students will be working on the conference floor to design innovative solutions to real-world problems they鈥檝e identified.
Ed Week Staff Writer Sarah Schwartz will be covering it all live-- and say 鈥楬i鈥� if you see her in a session!
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