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March/April 2018 | Volume 45, No. 2
COLUMNS
4 Editor’s Note
AI, Education and the Future of Everything
24 Advocacy
Back to the Future — What the Coming Fourth Industrial Revolution Means for Education
25 Legal Review
What Is COPPA?
26 Keynote
Meredith Walker, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls
34 Ed Tech Insider
Creativity, Critical Thinking Top Benefits of Makerspaces
FEATURES
20 Integrating Makerspaces Throughout the Curriculum The makerspace isn’t just a fixed space where kids come and go to complete busywork. It’s an extension of a well-established approach
to educating students that has applications and deep implications across disciplines.
28 The Changing Role of the CTO
A panel of top-level technology leaders from five school districts looks back on the role of the CTO in K-12 education and how it’s transforming.
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14
IOT HAS ARRIVED
(JUST NOT IN THE WAY YOU EXPECTED)
Forget about sensors everywhere. The Internet of Things is really about networked devices making our lives easier.
By Di Schaffhauser
14 VIRTUAL REALITY CHECK
Long touted as promising ed tech tools, virtual and augmented reality are finally making a real impact on teaching and learning.
By Dennis Pierce
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