On October 1, 2014, Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC) was awarded a $3.25 million TAACCCT grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to develop competency-based education (CBE) programs and promote the use of free and low-cost digital resources wherever possible. In conjunction with the creation of their Knowledge to Work (K2W) program (competency-based education programs in … [Read more...]
Joe Freddoso to Head Panel Discussion at Leading Ed Forum 2017
The VSTE CoSN Council and the Virginia Department of Education are pleased to welcome Joe Fredosso, USAC consultant and co-founder and COO of Mighty River, as a speaker for the second annual Leading Ed Forum. Joe will lead a panel discussion on Friday, October 20. This event, designed for school division technology and instructional leaders and presented through a partnership … [Read more...]
Proposed TSIP Revision
A committee of The Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE), with the support of the Virginia Department of Education's Office of Technology and Virtual Learning, is drafting new Technology Standards for Instructional Personnel (TSIP). If approved, these standards will update the original 1998 standards and represent the base level skills that every educator must … [Read more...]
Leveling Up Student Learning with a Global Inventors Course
This year, we tried something completely new at Oak Grove Elementary in Roanoke County. Fifth graders have just finished working with Global partners in Nicaragua, Argentina, and Honduras through a Global Inventors course run by Level Up Village--and what an adventure it was. In this course, students exchanged video messages with their partners and collaborated on designing … [Read more...]
It (Technology) Can Make a Difference, but You (Teacher) are the Difference!
Here we are at the end of another school year. For me, it marks the end of my 37th year in education, and I still feel the excitement of the end (and of a beginning) of a school year. My first seventeen years, I was an elementary and middle school teacher. The last twenty years I have been working with instructional technology needs from our school board office. So, I have … [Read more...]
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