Littered with overhyped claims, corporate corruption scandals and abandoned pilot projects that teachers never quite embraced, the history of ed tech is a messy one. But in recent years, valuable ...
It’s 2024! Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. Over the last few decades, applied technology in the classroom has grown by leaps and ...
Schools nationwide are spending over $13 billion in K-12 alone and have little idea if any of it works. We can’t afford to spend this kind of money blindly. Katrina Stevens spoke about better ways of ...
When Logan City School District knocked down most of their aging red brick high school, they remodeled and rebuilt their way to a two-story, technology-infused learning center. The district loaded up ...
The Classroom Technology Services (CTS) team at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Office of Information Technology had two primary motives for getting a better handle on tech usage on campus: 1) ...
Teachers who use Google Classroom as their primary ed-tech platform now have the option to integrate other digital learning resources into the Classroom experience. ZDNet spoke with Google Classroom's ...
Two years ago I helped lead a student immersion trip to Ecuador. Along with a dozen or so students, I spent a week learning about the challenges faced by people living in deep poverty just outside the ...
At Pittsburgh’s Avonworth School District educators are experimenting with a new way to test digital tools they might buy for their classrooms. In the past, the approach to such an ed-tech pilot ...
Understanding what technology can and cannot do is imperative before you begin planning how to use technology in the classroom. Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) spaces can unlock a new ...
The back-to-school season is in full swing amidst a global pandemic that’s seen US COVID-19 infections rise to 4.86 million in early August. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...
The last year of lockdown and learning from home was undoubtedly the most challenging year for teachers in a generation. Now that students are returning to class, we face new challenges. Students hide ...
Voice technology has become a familiar presence in the home, but now it’s on the verge of making a breakthrough into the classroom. Around one in four U.S. households now have a smart speaker, with ...