25 AI predictions for 2025
As generative AI technologies evolve, educators are moving away from fears about AI-enabled cheating and are embracing the idea that AI can open new doors for teaching and learning.
The Best in K-12 EdTech—Last Year and Next
It wasn’t all about AI in education 2024! In this special episode of Innovations in Education, editors Laura Ascione and ... Read more
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Survey finds “optimism gap” between teachers, admins
Administrators are more optimistic than teachers about the future of the teaching profession, student motivation, and the role of AI in the classroom.
50 predictions about what 2025 will bring to edtech, innovation, and everything in between
As 2024 moves into 2025, educators greet a new year with uncertainty. Pandemic-related learning loss and academic inequities remain a hurdle, particularly as COVID relief funding dries up. A second…
Student mental health needs grow as challenges persist
Student mental health needs are increasingly urgent, amplified by challenges such as growing anxiety and depression, according to a new report based on feedback from more than 500 educators and mental health professionals across the nation.
Break out the VR and the 3D printers for real-world relevance
The era of COVID-19 brought about the largest boom in school makerspaces seen to date. Makerspaces have the ability to help students consider career pathways and interests they have never considered.
U.S. 8th grade scores decline on critical computer and information literacy skills
U.S. eighth-graders scored at the international average for computer and information literacy but below the international average for computational thinking, according to the results of an international study
Skibidi anarchy: Post-pandemic classroom technology
Today’s kids are built differently. It’s the number one recurring theme in conversations with educators at every level, from the classroom to the district office. It’s not just anecdotal, either. Everywhere you look, the data backs it up.
I offer free online therapy to teens. Here’s what I’m seeing–and why it matters
Before the pandemic, the idea of communicating with a therapist via text seemed unthinkable. Then COVID closures and an unprecedented surge in teen mental health issues changed everything.
Turning classroom boredom into student brilliance
As someone who began teaching in middle school, I’ve had plenty of firsthand experience dealing with boredom in the classroom. Most educators will recognize the signs.
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Six tips for districts to avoid the next funding cliff
For school and district technology leaders, the end of the school year also means the end of billions of dollars of federal COVID-19 relief funding that was available to K-12 schools through various packages
