EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

However, as TCEA 2022, the biggest educational technology conference in Texas, drew to close, attendees shared how reconnecting with fellow educators armed them with needed resources to continue working during these challenging times. The past couple of years have put educators through the wringer.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Security-focused breakout sessions at CITE 2022 filled quickly, and Wednesday’s keynote featured cybersecurity expert John Sileo. News of successful K–12 ransomware attacks spreads quickly, which may be one reason district IT leaders are looking for any way to mitigate the threats. Experts in…

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 6, 2022

Our teachers didn’t have the tools and technology before,” she said, speaking on a panel of three superintendents during ISTELive 2022. Community Schools, to share one of the most positive ways that the pandemic impacted education, she will talk about technology. People are taking more risks.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

As we navigate the roadmap drawn by COVID-19, we know there will continue to be accelerated digital transformation and rapid innovation of education intended to positively impact student outcomes in 2022. To help early stage edtechs entering the market navigate this unique point in history, we have developed the 2022 EdTech Startup Guide.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With this as a backdrop, teachers, instructional education specialists and IT team members — both women and men — participated in a TCEA 2022 panel discussion on how to expand the pool of women in line for leadership positions. Panelist and former K–12 CTO Frankie Jackson noted that the low number of women in K–12 IT…

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 30, 2022

He shared his thoughts at this year’s ISTELive 2022 conference in response to a panel discussion titled “The Future is Now: Embedding Immersive Technology into the Classroom.” For the innovative educator, connecting emerging technology with curriculum is not optional — it's a hallmark of an effective 21st-century education.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

At this year’s in-person TCEA 2022 conference in Dallas, the A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning author used her session, titled “The Recipe for K–12 Online Learning Success,” to share with teachers, instructional technologists and other educators how to cook up a satisfying online learning experience.

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Neo LMS

MAY 3, 2022

That’s why we’ll talk about Teacher Appreciation Week 2022 ideas to try out and to help you celebrate the teachers in your life, whether you’re a school leader, parent, student, or a teacher yourself. 22 Teacher Appreciation Week 2022 ideas to try out. Read more: How edtech supports teacher work-life balance and wellbeing.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this first post, the authors outline how they centered equity as they developed an edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation guide for school systems leaders.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A LearnPlatform survey recently found that, despite concerns about known risks, districts accessed an average of 1,417 ed tech tools every month during the 2021-2022 school year. The top tools in many of the categories examined in LearnPlatform’s “EdTech Top 40: Fall 2022 Report” were Software as a Service applications.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

CITE 2022 promises new technology insights and ventures for IT leaders in education. California IT in Education takes over the Long Beach (Calif.) Convention Center Tuesday, Nov. 29, through Friday, Dec. 2, for its annual conference.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

When it comes to protecting a school’s physical campus, times have changed, and school security should reflect those changes, said security expert Matt Tourney in a TCEA 2022 session. What does a safer school campus look like today?

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Attendees at the 2022 California IT in Education conference were not strangers to these emotions, but these ed tech leaders celebrated the opportunity to reconnect with their peers following the difficulties of the past few years.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

Keep up with EdTech: Focus on K–12’s coverage on our ISTELive page and via Twitter with the hashtag #ISTELive. The Samsung Flip Pro line of products offers easy casting from devices, plug-and-play web conferencing from the board and the ability to draw on top of whatever you’re presenting without editing what’s underneath.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

There’s no doubt that education technology or ‘EdTech’ is an important and fast-evolving entity in the digital age, and one that is having a dramatic impact on the quality of students’ learning. The Rise of Hybrid Environments. Introducing Asynchronous Learning.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Security-focused breakout sessions at CITE 2022 filled quickly, and Wednesday’s keynote featured cybersecurity expert John Sileo. News of successful K–12 ransomware attacks spreads quickly, which may be one reason district IT leaders are looking for any way to mitigate the threats. Experts in…

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

However, support through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund came with mandates requiring districts to spend three separate rounds of funding by September 2022, September 2023 and September 2024. EdTech brought together a panel of IT and educational leaders to discuss how they’ve…

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Neo LMS

JUNE 20, 2022

The 2021-2022 school year may be drawing to a close, but educational conference season is in full swing. ISTE 2022 returns in-person and online. ISTElive 2022 is undoubtedly a must-attend conference for edtech enthusiasts, gathering tens of thousands of participants every year. Where will ISTE 2022 take place? .

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

1 technology pain point for survey respondents in the Consortium for School Networking’s “EdTech Trends and Funding: A CoSN Member Survey 2022.” Cybersecurity is a high priority for K–12 administrators and IT leaders. It was the No. The survey also found 83 percent of districts planned to expand cybersecurity initiatives.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 6, 2022

Keep up with EdTech: Focus on K–12’s coverage on our ISTELive page and via Twitter with the hashtag #ISTELive. We talked with Robert Olsen, senior managing director with Ankura, about how job postings and social media can provide unintended openings for threat actors.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 21, 2022

According to the Consortium for School Networking, 36 percent of K–12 IT leaders who took its 2022 leadership survey are women. EdTech spoke with four women change-makers who shared lessons learned and innovations made on their journeys to the top. But that gender disparity appears to be shifting.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

K–12 schools used, on average, 2,591 ed tech tools during the 2022-2023 school year, according to a Statista survey. percent increase from the 2021-2022 school year and a nearly 190 percent increase from the 2018… This is a 1.7

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And 2022 will be remembered for an increased focus on three crucial areas: Skills Certifications, Security Compliance and Student Data Privacy. Think of them as the Big Three; these are the areas that will identify education in 2022. By Robert Iskander When they close the book on this era, 2020 will be remembered as the year of COVID.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We see thousands of attacks of all kinds yearly,” said one respondent in the State Educational Technology Directors Association’s “2022 State EdTech Trends Report.” “In This makes cybersecurity critical. “We In 2021, we had nearly 1,000 distributed denial of service attempts alone.”

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

The “CoSN State of EdTech Leadership 2022” report states that the share of female CTOs increased from 25 to 34 percent between 2020 and 2022. Research shows that white men continue to dominate the makeup of K–12 IT leaders. Despite the increase, men still outnumber women 3 to 1.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

This 3-part blog series , featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this third post, the author describes lessons learned while leading a cohort of diverse schools and districts through a process of strengthening their edtech systems.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

We need to update lists accordingly and include our edtech tasks. . 15 Edtech items to include in your back-to-school checklist for teachers. Here are fifteen items related to edtech that will help you organize your classes in no time: 1. Don’t leave edtech out of your back-to-school checklist for teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

Collaborative education is a pedagogical approach centered on students interacting and learning together. This approach goes against the traditional format of information flowing one way, from teacher to students. Instead, students become part of the teaching process in a collaborative environment where they build knowledge with their peers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

There is a certain perspective that comes from being in the edtech industry for over 30 years, and while I thought I had seen it all, nothing could have prepared me (or anyone else) for a global pandemic. Kuato is an edtech gaming company that surveyed 1,000 parents and 600 teachers in the U.K.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Cyberattacks on K–12 schools have increased by more than 30 percent since 2022, according to the Center for Internet Security; the data-rich environment and higher likelihood of paid ransoms are attractive targets for criminals. Unsurprisingly, school IT staff members say that they feel unprepared. Limited budgets are a major factor.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2022

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference brought educators and IT leaders together in Orlando, Fla. The annual event gave attendees the opportunity to meet in person, shake hands and forgo problematic videoconference mute buttons. It comes as no surprise that innovation and collaboration were two major themes at this year’s conference.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Student mental health is in a state of crisis, with 70 percent of school districts reporting an increase in the number of students seeking mental health services as the 2021-2022 school year came to a close, The Washington Post reports. EdTech talked to GoGuardian’s Beacon Strategic…

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

Many may not realize it, but digital equity and inclusion is a large part of technology work, says Marlo Gaddis, CTO for the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina and secretary for the Consortium for School Networking. We spoke to Gaddis and Diane W.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

To help you avoid those missteps, EdTech turned to Kyle Berger, CTO for the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District in Texas and one of EdTech’s 2022 K–12 IT influencers. Berger has 22 years of experience as a school CTO and has been at GCISD, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex for five years.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

According to the 2022 EdTech Leadership Survey Report from the Consortium for School Networking, respondents shared that network infrastructure and broadband/network capacity are their second and third priorities after cybersecurity. Upgrading networks is a major priority for K—12 school districts.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Cybersecurity remains the top priority for K–12 IT leaders, according to CoSN’s “2023 State of EdTech Leadership” report, with more schools prioritizing training for IT staff and end users last year than in 2022.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

Unfortunately, many teachers would take their keyboard and write their password on the back,” says Michelle Bourgeois, the Colorado district’s CTO and one of EdTech’s 2022 K–12 IT influencers. Vrain Valley Schools began closely examining its cybersecurity posture, its staff didn’t have the best cyber hygiene.

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