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October/November 2018 | Volume 45, No. 4
COLUMNS
4 Editor’s Note
A Farewell to Print ... for Real This Time
23 Advocacy
Prioritizing Privacy: Managing Tracking Technologies
34 Ed Tech Insider
Student Data Privacy a Top Concern of K–12 Tech Leaders
FEATURES
18 Technologies to Watch for in 2019
The technology behind Bitcoin has important implications for education. Here’s how.
By Dennis Pierce
25 Developing Robotic Kids
Robotics programs across the country are appealing to non-STEM- oriented students too, even as they learn science, tech, engineering and math (along with a whole bunch of soft skills) on the side.
By Di Schaffhauser
30 Classroom (Re)Design for Innovative Teaching
Keeping the focus on instruction, not just rearranging seating.
By Joshua Bolkan
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6 2018 READER’S CHOICE AWARDS
For our fourth-annual Readers’ Choice Awards, more than 1,000 education technology professionals weighed in on their favorite technologies, from instructional technology to security and privacy tools, from mobile devices to projectors, from games to multimedia authoring tools. By David Nagel
12 A CTO ROUNDTABLE
Five school technology leaders answer our questions on learning with tech, sustainable 1-to-1, ESSA, student data privacy concerns and what they’d give up in their jobs if only they could.
By Di Schaffhauser
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