Digital Transformation

Through a digitalization of the learning experience, both teachers and students are able to improve their skills to create a more engaging and effective education process. Here are the ways that a comprehensive digital transformation approach is dramatically shifting education in today's classrooms. Support for this toolkit generously provided by SHI.

A Culture for Transformation

Through a digitalization of the learning experience, both teachers and students can create a more engaging and effective education process

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Digital Transformation in K-12 Education

Digital tools are transforming the world we live in today, as well as the one our students will lead tomorrow

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The Keys to Digital Transformation

Digital transformation efforts are under way to provide authentic learning experiences that are relevant, valuable, and help build tangible skills

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Embracing Transformation

Today’s schools must embrace the technological future and engage with technology to change and adapt

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Digital Transformation and Disruption

Digital natives demand mobile devices in the classroom, virtual learning environments, teaching via video, and online assessment

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Managing Digital Transformation in the Classroom

This adaptable presentation shows both the opportunities and challenges that digital transformation presents

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Making the Right Decisions for Your School District

The success of one-to-one computing depends on several issues that must be addressed through research and policy considerations

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BYOD Planning and Implementation Framework

Developing a successful BYOD program requires extensive planning, communication, and ongoing evaluation

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BYOD Readiness Checklist for School Districts

Determine your school or district's readiness for BYOD

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Technology Policies for School Boards

A sample Policy presentation that can be modified and adapted for your own use when presenting

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Technology Policy and School Staff and Faculty

A sample Policy presentation that can be modified and adapted for your own use when presenting

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Components of a Successful PLC

A comprehensive checklist that details what all thriving Professional Learning Communities have in common

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The Decision To Go Digital

Success depends on a strong network of professionals working together to support digital programs

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Digital Curriculum Challenges

Consider the following challenges you might encounter when migrating to digital content

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Digital Curriculum Checklist

Evaluate your school’s readiness for a digital curriculum

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Mentoring and PLCs

Professional Learning Communities can act as dynamic support systems for teachers

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Opening Up to Open Educational Resources

A comprehensive guide to OER and how these teaching and learning materials are freely available to anyone

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Ready to Alter Your Role?

New tasks and challenges call for developing new abilities and setting aside old habits

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Strategies for Principals to Implement Effective PLCs

A checklist for principals in creating a culture of continuous learning for their schools

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Thinking of Flipping

Additional details on what this approach entails and the policies that impact flipped classroom

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Tablets in education: Why one Texas school district turned to the Surface

Here’s how a Texas school district narrowed down the tablet field and what option they ultimately settled on.

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Upgrading to Windows 10: How SHI helped one school migrate 45,000 devices

Here’s how one school district migrated—and staved off a major ransomware attack in the process.

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A Simple IT Environment can Harbor Complex Challenges

An upgrade in a Washington, D.C. school ballooned into a bigger project that improved the IT setup of the entire school.

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Google Slides For Math

While PowerPoint is mostly a static tool for delivering a lesson, Google Slides can be used collaboratively for many purposes in the math classroom.
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My Students Video Their Homework, and Everything Is Better

Purposeful homework indeed has a purpose, yet I need to have boundaries on my own time. Enter the concept of video homework.
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Creating Launch Points

Schools can do more than simply prepare students for academic success. Let's help students find their launch points—those points that set the stage for a person’s life.  
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The 2019 Horizon Report
The 2019 Horizon Report is Here

The 2019 Horizon Report is here, profiling key trends, significant challenges, and important developments in educational technology.
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Enhancing Sharing in Simple and Meaningful New Ways

Ed-tech company Clarity Innovations worked with the Math Learning Center to create a dynamic new way to share math learning with teachers and peers. 
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Reflections on Tech Use with Young Children

If technology isn't "good enough" for the children of the Silicon Valley innovators who created it, how can we defend its use in schools, especially with young children?
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A Bird? A Plane? No: They're Super-Literates!

The gulf between the "functional” and the “super-literate” is expanding. How will educators and students keep pace with these changes?
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E3 and the Four Cs: eSports in K-12 Education

eSports—multiplayer video games played competitively for spectators—could soon have implications in the modern classroom.
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Invention versus Innovation: What Does it Mean for Education?

Inventing can fill a need, a void, or be an effective strategy for desired results. Innovating? Not so much.

 
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Augmented Vs. Virtual Reality: Which Will Transform Education?

Numerous studies have shown the strengths of both virtual and augmented reality use in the classroom. But which is the best fit for today's schools?
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