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ISTE - International Society for Technology in Education 
The vision of ISTE is a world where all learners thrive, achieve and contribute. Click on the ISTE icon below and begin to feel inspired on what is going on around the world when it comes to educational technology! 

Common Sense Media 
Common Sense is the leading independent nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology. We empower parents, teachers, and policymakers by providing unbiased information, trusted advice, and innovative tools to help them harness the power of media and technology as a positive force in all kids’ lives. Click on the Common Sense Media icon below and explore for yourself!

EdTechTeacher recognizes the challenge of preparing students for an increasingly complex and cognitively demanding world, so we leverage our experiences to provide professional development to teachers who are dedicated to creating innovative learning opportunities for their students. Click on edtechteacher icon below and experience their perspective to help teachers! 

Recommended Reading

​Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World

By: Tony Wagner
​Click on the title above to purchase a copy for yourself! 

 In Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner helps describes how the crisis facing education in a society that requires innovative workers and thinkers. Wagner presents a systems perspective, and explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators.

Smartest Kids in the World 
By: Amanda Ripley 

Ripley is offers a perspective of how other nations educate their students so much more effectively than we do in the United States of America, and Ripley's opening pages hold out a promising suggestion of how the teaching profession claims for a higher standard than at home in America. “American educators described Finland as a silky paradise,” she writes, “a place where all the teachers were admired and all the children beloved.”

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