EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

K–12 education is on the precipice of change in 2024. School IT administrators need to be ready to adapt as numerous shifts at the federal level create impacts throughout the education landscape. Affecting many schools’ budgets this year, the final round of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding expires in September.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As students settle back into classroom routines for the 2024-2025 school year, K–12 teachers and administrators face a host of pressing issues. Among them: how to navigate the use of artificial intelligence in education.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

While at the 2025 TCEA Convention & Exposition in Austin, Texas, EdTech: Focus On K12 Managing Editor Taashi Rowe spoke with Brian Brown, the organizations board president. When he was named TCEA board president in 2024, Brown became responsible for guiding the agenda that

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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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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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Securly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Throughout 2024, we’ve been inspired by countless examples of schools seeking innovative ways to protect students while nurturing their growth. New Leadership, Enduring Commitment After leading Securly for 12 years, co-founder Bharath Madhusudan handed the CEO reins to Tammy Wincup in October 2024.

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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.” EdTech: Focus on K–12 talked with four experts about the NETP’s strengths, opportunities and key takeaways.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Charlotte, NC — For observances of National STEM Day 2024, global edtech leader Discovery Education and select partners offer a curated collection of free resources to engage students in STEM education. million in the 2023-2024 school year alone, 65% of which are from Title I schools. million students, including 2.97

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2024

Digital Promise leaders reflect on top insights and learnings around education technology from the ISTELive 2024 conference.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2024

If you’re an edtech company interested in helping spread Ask a Tech Teacher resources to everyone, contact us at askatechteacher@gmail.com. image credit Deposit Photo Copyright 2024 askatechteacher.com All rights reserved. BTW, we love sponsors!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

You love being an edtech professional but what’s your career path? Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved. You’ve been tasked with organizing a Technology Use Plan for your school. Where do you start? You and colleagues are expected to create a Curriculum Map. How does technology fit into that?

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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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ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 25, 2024

Navigating EdTech This School Year Understanding your unique teaching style is more than just recognizing what you’re good at. Monica’s website ClassTechTips.com and Easy EdTech Podcast help educators place “tasks before apps” by promoting deeper learning with technology.

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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

JUNE 28, 2024

And for K–12 schools, it has been a major topic of conversation, with 60 percent of districts planning to offer some training for teachers by the end of the 2023-2024 school year, according to a survey by RAND. Taashi Rowe, managing editor of EdTech: Focus on K–12…

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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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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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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. We love sponsors!

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

In 2024, we started seeing single agents. This has created a huge gap between school systems ability to change quickly and the speed of change in AI. One of AIs next iterations, however, may help schools close that gap. What Is Agentic AI, and How Has It Evolved? I might take the data set of a school policy and create

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

one of the nation’s leading technology-based education companies, has been honored as a Company of the Year by the 2024 BIG Awards for Business. With 25 years in the EdTech industry, Stride, Inc. RESTON, Va. GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Stride, Inc. , For more information about Stride, visit stridelearning.com. About Stride, Inc.

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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

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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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly emerges: 2024 was the year of the personal essay. Here are the most popular K-12 stories of 2024. Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline? By Daniel Mollenkamp In April, the U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A 2024 National Science Board report recently shared troubling news that K12 teachers have known for a while: The U.S. Science and Engineering 2024 report goes on to say, We are not producing STEM workers in either sufficient numbers or diversity to meet the workforce needs of the 21st century knowledge economy. The State of U.S.

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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 24, 2024

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

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. On the 6th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on ethical AI use. Districts must develop guidelines that balance innovation with responsibility (Holter, Rummel & Skadsem, 2024). link] Holter, A., Rummel, & Skadsem, H.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. What are the projections for edtech? We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2024.

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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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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

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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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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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

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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