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Connecting in the 21st Century Webinar
1. Connecting in the 21st Century: Parents and Administrators Speak Up about Effective School to Home Communications Key Findings of a special new report from Blackboard Connect and Project Tomorrow Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO
2. Welcome Patrick Rodwell Manager, Territory Marketing Blackboard Inc. [email_address] Jennie Breister Product Marketing Manager Blackboard Connect for K-12 jennie.breister@blackboard.com
9. What can the Speak Up findings tell us about the future of learning?
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11. A new uniquely “student vision” for leveraging emerging technologies to drive achievement and educational productivity Emerging from the Speak Up research:
12. A new uniquely “student vision” for leveraging emerging technologies to drive achievement and educational productivity Emerging from the Speak Up research: This student vision for “technology enabled learning” mirrors how students want to learn in general
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15. Introducing . . . Connecting in the 21st Century: Parents and Administrators Speak Up about Effective School to Home Communications
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19. “ By improving communications, our schools are able to establish relationships with parents that reinforce the school’s dedication to student success .” District Administrator from North Carolina
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22. “ In today’s environment, parents, teachers, the community and all stakeholders of public schools expect instantaneous communication regarding events going on at their local schools. It’s considered a basic service, not an extra .” District Administrator from Michigan
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24. “ I am very happy with our school and the communications amongst the teacher, parents and students. If I were principal, I would tell parents to use the technology that is offered because it is the child who suffers and it is not just up to the teacher to educate our children.” Parent from California
35. Thank you. Let’s continue this conversation. Julie Evans Project Tomorrow [email_address] 949-609-4660 x15 Twitter: JulieEvans_PT Copyright Project Tomorrow 2011. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.