EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With that winding down in 2024, K–12 school leaders are worried about how they will sustain the essential IT upgrades they’ve made. Distributions from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund helped schools acquire much-needed technologies. The ESSER funding cliff presents risks.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2024

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2024

This year’s K–12 IT influencers have been in their educational technology era since long before the Federal Communications Commission’s cybersecurity funding pilot, the revision to the National Educational Technology Plan or any other federal ed tech topics in the spotlight this calendar year. These fervent ed tech experts come from across the U.S.,

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At the 2024 TCEA convention and exposition Monday, instructional technology coaches from the district and supervisor Jason Bell explained how the grant helped the district adopt a one-to-one tablet program for its middle school students.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This year’s VirtCon theme is “Igniting Classroom Curiosity” and features live sessions spotlighting how educators use Discovery Education’s award-winning content and […] The post VirtCon 2024: Discovery Education Invites Teachers and Administrators to Free Day of Professional Learning first appeared on EdNews Daily.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Safety is imperative in conversations today about K–12 education. Schools are looking for the best ways to protect staff and students from on-campus incidents. At the TCEA convention and exposition in Austin, Texas, presenters additionally took into consideration laws the state has put in place around school safety.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

The numbers don’t lie. Compared with K–12 girls, boys are disciplined at higher rates and are more likely to be expelled than girls. Additionally, their test scores are lower, and they are less likely to graduate from high school.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Despite the pandemic forcing more K–12 schools into some form of technology innovation, the American educational model has not seen massive shifts in recent years. That needs to change if today’s students are to become future ready, said Michael Meechin, Florida state director at the National Center on Education and the Economy.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

To help her audience better understand the earthshaking impact of generative artificial intelligence, futurist Sinead Bovell, one of the keynote speakers at ISTELive 24 in Denver, compared AI to electricity.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

The potential fallout from a cybersecurity breach is keeping K–12 IT teams up at night.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The post Building Career-Ready Skills: Insights from our 2024 Micro-Credential Pilot appeared first on Digital Promise.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The funding cliff is looming over K–12 school districts this year. The last bucket of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding expires in September. For some schools, this means scrambling to find ways to sustain the technology they purchased during the pandemic.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2024

Schools strive to give students experiences that engage them in learning and prepare them for their future. In today’s education environment, that often means incorporating technology into teaching and learning, resulting in K–12 IT departments looking for ways to sustain and advance their tech investments.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Only a few months into the new school year, we’ve already seen a surge in ransomware attacks on schools and sensitive student data being leaked online. Ransomware poses the biggest threat to data privacy and security, and schools are the top target of these attacks.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The post Micro-credential Platform: Our 2024 Fall Updates appeared first on Digital Promise.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Its audience increased by 38 million from 2019 to 2020, and it’s projected to reach more than 576 million by 2024. In recent years, esports has become increasingly popular. Female participation in the sport, however, hasn’t quite mirrored that pace. Sixty percent of female gamers in the U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

In the Consortium for School Networking’s 2024 Driving K–12 Innovation report, the organization lists generative artificial intelligence among the current tech enablers in schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

In honor of Martin Luther King: MLK Day in the US is the third Monday of January, this year, January 15, 2024. Ask a Tech Teacher’s 19-page two-lesson plan bundle to teach about Martin Luther King (click for more information) is 66% off January 12, 2024 through Jan.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators, administrators and IT experts will kick off the new year with one of the biggest national ed tech conferences for K–12 educators: the Future of Education Technology Conference. Now in its 44th year, the conference will run from Jan. 23-26 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Hear how the League of Innovative Students made strides in 2024 toward shaping educational experiences for their peers and driving systemic change.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Check out the top 2024 edWebinars and edLeader Panels of the year! edWeb presented over 400 new programs in 2024 on so many timely topics for PreK-12 educators. The edWeb Team The post Top 25 edWebinars & edLeader Panels of 2024 appeared first on edWeb. All of the programs are available to view on-demand. .”

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A 2024 CoSN survey of ed tech leaders… “We used to have a handful of desktops in each classroom, and you could manage everything easily and efficiently,” says Matt Prause, the district’s senior director of hardware and software support. Now, we have thousands of devices, and we’re ordering thousands of new ones every year.”

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2024

Eligibility would begin in funding year 2024, coinciding with the June 2024 sunsetting of the FCC’s Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF), the $7.2 “We are going to help close the Homework Gap and get more kids connected for school,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

That conversation was recently in the spotlight again with the release of the 2024 revision to the National Educational Technology Plan, which highlighted three digital divides in today’s K–12 classrooms. RELATED: Educators wrestle with the real-life applications of…

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

Recently, the topic received renewed attention in the 2024 update to the U.S. Concern about digital equity in schools hit its zenith during the pandemic. However, its importance certainly has not declined. Department of Education’s National Educational Technology Plan, which underscores its continued importance.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

When selecting the best candidates for K–12 IT leadership posts, are academic credentials and technology skill sets the only things that matter? Not always. That’s what speakers on a diversity in leadership panel said at the Future of Education Technology Conference, going on this week at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 1, 2024

According to Public Domain Review, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2024: The picture above is interactive on the website. ” Here’s a 7-minute animation of Steamboat Willie from YouTube, with over 13 million views: Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

in Atlanta at 4 pm on September 11, 2024. New York Post, June 10, 2024. Forbes, June 7, 2024. Convert Google Forms into practice sets in Google Classroom , Google Workspace Updates, January 5, 2024. June 18, 2024. February 9, 2024. The YouTube video will be posted here when it goes live. Planet Money.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Get Ready for the 2024 Hour of Code Mark your calendars for December 9–15, 2024! Emerging Trends in Computer Science Doug Bergman discusses how schools can prepare students for the future of coding, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and computational thinking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2024

Full Story: K-12 Dive (3/27) –image credit Deposit Photos Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved. Since the pandemic, it is so much more, to the point it is a front-of-mind issue that schools scramble to address.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

33% off right now through February 3, 2024 How to Achieve Common Core with Tech is a four-volume series that focuses on using technology to meet Common Core standards in Language, Writing, Reading, Speaking/Listening (not yet available), and Math. Common Core–Math Lesson Plans 141 pages, 20 projects, over 114 Common Core standards, for K-8.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As the 2024-2025 school year begins, students return to classes, digital assignments and cloud-based educational technology tools. Lessons explore emerging technologies while striving to facilitate collaboration and engagement. And all of these workflows and learning opportunities rely on the internet.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 5, 2024

Department of Education released the nation’s signature educational technology policy document — “2024 National Educational Technology Plan: A Call to Action for Closing the Digital Access, Design and Use Divides.” In January, the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This week, February 18-24, 2024, is DiscoverE’s Engineers Week. Engineers Week, also known as EWeek, is an annual event celebrated in the United States typically during the third or fourth week of February, this week: February 18-24, 2024 dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of engineering. has approximately 1.6

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2024

It is even easier than PC: Copyright (©): Option + G –Image credit Deposit Photo Copyright ©2024 worddreams.wordpress.com – All rights reserved. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Endangered Species, Winter 2024 Cool, hunh? Update: Thanks to L.W. Dixon Jr, I realized I should add the Apple shortkey.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

What makes an educational technology tool suited for the modern classroom? K–12 educators, administrators and IT professionals want students to have access to the most modern and educationally beneficial technologies, but identifying those products in a sea of solutions can be overwhelming.

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