Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2021

So, in this article, I’m going to share my thoughts and experience about the technologies and solutions that reshape the educational industry and the way we learn in 2020 and beyond. The educational field was constantly evolving along with new technologies even before the pandemic. Educational and/or topic-based.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Over 170 million students and instructors use Google Workspace for Education worldwide, and according to Business Insider, the platform now has more than 9 million paying subscribers, up from 6 million in 2020. Google Duet AI instantly gives the power of artificial intelligence to tens of millions of educators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 21, 2024

The World Economic Forum predicted in 2020 that AI would take away 85 million jobs ; however, this powerful phenomenon would create 97 million new jobs. As I have been teaching with and using these newest round of AI tools since January 2023, I've also been interviewing experts and other educators and sharing the learning here on this show.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2020

We’re excited to announce the 2020 cohort of HP Teaching Fellows! The new cohort includes 26 educators from across the United States and Canada, selected for their excellence in powerful teaching and learning with technology. Introducing the 2020 Cohort of HP Teaching Fellows. Follow #ReinventTheClassroom on Twitter.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The next census in 2020 will require counting a population of around 330 million people in more than 140 million housing units. Critical programs and services that adult education communities rely on, such as libraries and nonprofit organizations, could be impacted. The post Every Person Counts: How the 2020 U.S. population.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Families throughout the nation faced digital inequities before the pandemic became a factor in the spring of 2020. However, with the shift to remote learning, the conversation around the digital divide became impossible to ignore.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 8, 2021

Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2020: Top 10 Tech Tips. Here are the Top Ten tech tips from 2020. I include lots of links for readers to sites that will help them integrate technology into education. Between these ten, they had over 183,000 visitors during the year.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 16, 2020

The educational world has never been more dynamic. Established teaching practices are being transformed by the continuous advancements of education technologies. Going to BETT 2020? Meet NEO at BETT 2020! The timing couldn’t be more perfect, as one of the world’s leading edtech conferences is just around the corner.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 2, 2020

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in July 2020… Equity Visits , Rachel Roegman et al. educational leadership]. Motivate the Unmotivated , Rob Plevin [education]. Attention-Grabbing Starters and Plenaries for Teachers , Rob Plevin [education]. Books I read in February 2020. Books I read in March 2020.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2020

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in March 2020… Personal and Authentic: Designing Learning Experiences That Impact a Lifetime , Tom Murray [education]. Culturize , Jimmy Casas [education]. Books I read in January 2020. Books I read in February 2020. Smart Baseball , Keith Law [baseball].

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology to develop and share the 2020 National Educational Technology Plan. The National Education Technology Plan (NETP) is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. Department of Education. NETP Project Director.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2020

Despite the complexities of the moment, educators are creative, resourceful problem-solvers. There is an emerging widespread awareness that digital learning is critical to the success of students’ education—certainly now, but also in a post COVID-19 world as we work to finally close the Digital Learning Gap.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 22, 2020

My daughter Emily Ruth was born on April 1, 2020. My husband and I knew immediately that she was going to be a mix of wicked and wise, given the birthday she chose: April Fools Day - so perfect for 2020. I became a mom this year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In many ways, 2020 has been THE year of edtech. Edtech funds closed larger funds, and top-notch venture capital investors including a16z , Lightspeed and Union Square Ventures have developed investment theses on education. Yet, 2020 also saw an acceleration of inequities in education. As a mother, 2020 was unsettling.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 1, 2020

( How to Have 20/20 Vision in 2020 ). The year 2020 can act as metaphor for us, as educators, to have an overreaching vision for what we do. I really love the idea of approaching 2020 with a clear, well-articulated vision of our learners’ futures.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in January 2020… You Gotta Have Wa , Robert Whiting [baseball]. How to Create the Schools We Need , Chris Lehmann and Zac Chase [education]. The Apocalypse Troll , David Weber [sci fi]. Lucifer’s Hammer , Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [sci fi]. Building School 2.0:

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 9, 2020

In March 2020 nearly the entire world’s education systems were thrown into the unknown when the COVID-19 Global Pandemic shuttered schools and teaching and learning moved to remote means. There is much to reflect upon here at the end of School Year 2019-2020. And there is much to think about going into the Fall 2020.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Truly 2020 was a difficult year for so many reasons. Here are some of my thoughts on what 2020 has taught us, and about what lies ahead. Lessons Learned One of the most important lessons superintendents learned in 2020—although many knew it intrinsically before—is their leadership must extend beyond their school district.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

As always, education is changing. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Wally Clipper, has a great run-down on 8 trends you’ll want to watch in 2020: 8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020. Unsurprisingly, technology is also impacting the world of education. Being a teacher and a learner today is awe-inspiring.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If e-learning came to life as a method to augment face-to-face learning, it is now an approach to education that is bigger than the traditional method it was meant to support. The world of education has adopted digital learning as a reliable way of delivering instruction, assessing student progress and supporting better academic outcomes.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

There’s no denying that 2020 has been a challenging year for teachers, administrators, students and their families. The coronavirus pandemic threw several curveballs at our nation’s schools and education systems, pushing many educators to teach and work together remotely for the first time.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2023

Cybersecurity is a growing concern in education, and for good reason. Since 2020, “there has been an immense uptick in cyberthreats aimed at K–12,” says Ryan Eick, Google Workspace strategist at CDW•G. He says cybercrime is expanding at an alarming rate, with schools representing the most targeted U.S. segment for ransomware exploits.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In one of the most anticipated events each year at the Learning Counsel’s National EduJedi Gathering and Awards, CEO and Publisher LeiLani Cauthen delivers the 2020 Digital Transition Strategy Survey Market Briefing. The post Video: 2020 Digital Transition Survey Market Brief first appeared on EdNews Daily.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Some may say 2020 is the year of educational technology. When COVID-19 pushed schools to go remote, educators and students became more reliant on technology than ever before. The transition to this learning environment also revealed new insights on the state of technology in education.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The need for digital and technological equity became clearer than ever following 2020’s shift to remote and hybrid instruction. Internet access is the electricity of the 1930s and ’40s; it is that crucial to everyday life and learning,” said New York Commissioner of Education Betty Rosa said in a Feb. 24 press release.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2022

Throughout my career in education, teaching has been prodded, pushed, tweaked, nudged, and reformed. Education is focused on college and career with tech an organic, transformative tool. These are big enough to require an updated curriculum, but now, according to US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, it may be time for a huge reset.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2024

Reading levels for 13-year-old students have been declining since 2012, with the sharpest drop between 2020 and 2023, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s long-term trend assessment. Interestingly, mathematics scores closely follow the same drops, the assessment report shows. “If

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There’s no denying that 2020 has been a challenging year for teachers, administrators, students and their families. The coronavirus pandemic threw several curveballs at our nation’s schools and education systems, pushing many educators to teach and work together remotely for the first time.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

There’s no denying that 2020 has been a challenging year for teachers, administrators, students and their families. The coronavirus pandemic threw several curveballs at our nation’s schools and education systems, pushing many educators to teach and work together remotely for the first time.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

And if your next escapade involves seeing, doing and learning, there’s plenty for you in 2020 at the many K-12 education conferences that dot the country. We’ve tallied nearly 80 K-12 events happening in 2020, from sunny San Diego to beautiful Boston. The calendar below lists events happening in 2020. Let us know.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Lest 2020 be forgot and never brought to mind—a hope more than a few of us hold—existing trends that accelerated during the pandemic will continue in 2021. That’s what lies ahead, at least in the realms of education and employment, according to three college presidents and executives at large companies. Here’s how it breaks down: 1.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 3, 2020

A new analysis finds that the number of mergers and acquisitions in the education industry dipped during the first half of 2020 to at least a 30-month low. The post Education Industry Mergers, Acquisitions Slow in 2020 During COVID-19 Era appeared first on Market Brief.

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Educational Technology Guy

APRIL 29, 2020

To help educators and parents teach these skills, Aperture Education and The Character Tree have partnered to host a free webinar “How, Not ‘If’: Promoting Social-Emotional Learning and Character Development in Young Children is a Necessity,” at 3 p.m. EST on May 7, 2020.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the parent organization of EdSurge, has announced new dates for its annual conference. Originally scheduled to be held June 28 to July 1, ISTE 2020 will now take place November 28 to December 1, 2020.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“The educators who had the greatest impact on me as a youth recognized my personhood by actively developing a relationship with me, challenged their explicit and implicit biases in visible ways, and valued multiple perspectives within their classroom.” – Maima Chea Simmons, Black Girls’ Literacies. 2016; Harmon et al.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Around the world, people are starting to turn hopeful eyes toward the new year as the fervent desire to banish 2020 grows. Higher education is no exception. This op-ed is part of a series of year-end reflections EdSurge is publishing as 2020 concludes. But the lessons to be learned here are not new or unique to the pandemic.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 27, 2020

In response to school closures in March G Suite for Education enabled Enterprise features of being able to record Google Meet for all G Suite for Education domains. Free Recoding Google Meet Ends September 30, 2020 Enterprise G Suite for Education G Suite for Education is free.

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