Educational Technology News

"We begin 2021 heartened by the resiliency of educators and students from around the country pushing through the disruptions of COVID-19. Even in the face of current challenges, many schools and districts are using this moment to design new approaches that will shape learning far into the future."

"For students today, the digital world offers enormous possibilities. Free and low-cost digital tools allow students to write blogs, share their photos and art work with a global audience, create videos and develop a YouTube following, collaborate on projects with peers and experts around the world, and harness social media to find support for the causes they are passionate about."

We’ve all heard about veteran educators who have been teaching the same way for years and are reluctant to integrate technology into their practice.

Why should they? It’s scary to try something new, especially in front of a class of kids who seem to already be tech experts.

Leaders from the Parkland School District in Pennsylvania discuss how they're closing the gap to provide students with "anytime, anywhere learning."

Technology allows educators to bring a whole new level of compassion to teaching. Here are three ways you can use technology to personalize learning for all of your students.

Create a profile of a technologically literate graduate by connecting criteria to your school or district's computer science, edtech and STEAM initiatives. Start by incorporating CS and STEAM into instruction through classroom projects that also address digital equity and digital citizenship and connect to science, math, ELA and other subjects.

"The spread of the virus has raised a host of questions: Should schools close? How can educators and parents make remote learning a meaningful experience when it’s happened so suddenly? And who’s supposed to watch the kids at home?"

In the famous words of Spider-Man writer Stan Lee, "With great power comes great responsibility."

Actually, Voltaire might have said it first. Or possibly Jesus.

"Turning on the TV in my hotel room, all channels carried the story of a massive fireball over Philadelphia. This Tunguska-like event was attributed to an historic refinery explosion. Let me submit, however, an alternative version: this record breaking release of energy was brought about when a critical mass of cutting edge ideas, fresh inspiration, and news of great things to come was reached as 20,000 educators converged on ISTE 2019."

"Today’s schools are compiling a vast amount of data from an influx of educational applications and online tools, but they often lack the time and resources necessary to analyze the data and transform it into meaningful action."

Prevention science is a multidisciplinary science that includes behavioral science, genetics, adolescent health, public health, neuroscience, social science and more. It also includes digital citizenship.

Reach digital citizenship authentically so it's not just another abstract idea that becomes real to students only when they run into problems down the road.

The most compelling topics among educators who embrace technology for learning and teaching are not about the tech at all, but about the students. And that’s a good thing.