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AI Trends in Ed Tech to Watch in 2025

EdTech Magazine

If youre wondering when the artificial intelligence wave will crash down upon education, the October 2024 release of the federal governments toolkit for AI integration, Empowering Education Leaders, serves as a bellwether for the state of AI in K12: a lot of talk but little action. For administrators, this emerging technology is another item on a full plate that includes pressing issues related to staffing and student mental health.

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AI in Education: Friend or Foe? A Student Perspective #AILiteracyDay

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today is AI Literacy Day, Friday, March 28, 2025. So, as my part in celebrating this day, I thought the best people to speak about this topic is my students. So, I issued a call to my AP students and two of them showed up this past Tuesday and we recorded this show. I think that their honest, intelligent, reflective thoughts of the issue of their generation and their concerns and hopes for the future where my student

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What is a Virtual HS?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Virtual high schools have become increasingly popular as technology has advanced and educational needs have evolved. Here is an overview of key data and trends associated with them: Enrollment and Growth Enrollment Numbers : Virtual high schools have seen significant growth in enrollment. In the United States alone, millions of students are now taking at least one online course.

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Elevating Innovation 2024: Conference Reflections and Takeaways from Educators

Digital Promise

In November 2024, Digital Promise and Verizon Innovative Learning hosted the third annual Elevating Innovation Virtual Conference. The event attracted educators from across the country and around the world. Attendees had the opportunity to learn about the latest educational trends, emerging technologies, and innovative strategies shaping education directly from education and edtech experts like 2022 Hawaii State Teacher of the Year Whitney Aragaki; Hey, Mrs.

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Enhancing Higher Education with Generative AI: A Responsible Guide

Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.

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5 Interactive Presentations Ideas That Will Engage Students

ViewSonic Education

Interactive presentations aren’t just a nice-to-havethey should be your go-to approach in the classroom. Lets be honest: nobody gets excited about sitting through a dry, teacher-centered lecture. Your students definitely dont. But flip the script and make things interactive, and suddenly, theyre paying attention, asking questions, and actually enjoying the lesson.

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Future-Proofing Learning: Preparing Students for an Uncertain Tomorrow

A Principal's Reflections

" The future doesn't need us to memorize its answers; it needs us to master the art of asking better questions." The future won't wait for us to catch up; it will demand that we've already anticipated its needs, making future-proofing learning not a luxury but the very oxygen of survival. Recently, on my podcast Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed this topic in detail after revisiting a blog post I wrote in 2021.

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Why Pasadena Unified School District relies on Hāpara for classroom management

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) is an independent school district located in the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County. Just northeast of downtown Los Angeles, it serves K-12 learners in the cities of Pasadena, Sierra Madre and Altadena. The district includes 23 schools with over 14,000 learners.

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How Do Clinical Nurses’ Responsibilities Differ from Registered Nurses?

EdTech4Beginners

Nursing is a diverse field with many avenues to pursue depending on your ambitions. Registered nurses (RNs) hold the most common nursing position, and some RNs use this as a platform. Holding a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) starts your career as an RN and opens the door to other positions. Such positions, like clinical nurse specialists and leaders, carry more responsibilities and require a masters degree.

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10 ways to co-teach with AI

Ditch That Textbook

AI is rapidly emerging as a powerful tool to support educators in new and exciting ways. Imagine having an intelligent partner in the classroom, one that can personalize learning, offer instant insights, and free up your time to focus on what matters most: connecting with your students.This isn't about replacing teachers; it's about augmenting their abilities […] The post 10 ways to co-teach with AI appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Designing Systems for Change: A Path to Differentiation and Literacy

Education Elements

Over the past two years, 40 states and the District of Columbia have adopted guidelines or legislation mandating the use of Science of Reading (SoR) methodology in school districts. These changes often come with high expectations and tight timelines, requiring leaders to overcome significant challenges such as limited resources, deeply ingrained instructional beliefs, and complex implementation barriers.

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Enhancing School Device Management for Improved Learning

Schools face increasing challenges as technology becomes integral to education. Efficient device management is essential for maximizing technology use and safeguarding investments. Our article discusses the importance of tracking devices, outlines current challenges, and suggests modern solutions that go beyond traditional methods like Excel. Learn how advanced tracking systems can streamline operations, improve maintenance, and offer real-time updates for better resource allocation.

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What Is Digital Citizenship in 2025? How Is It Taught?

EdTech Magazine

Digital citizenship provides important lessons about how students should conduct themselves online. For elementary school students, digital citizenship means starting to learn what healthy screen time looks like and the basics of safe online behavior, says Kasha Hayes, associate director of onboarding and coaching for Digital Promise. Digital Promise partners with Verizon Innovative Learning, an online initiative that helps students succeed online and offers online learning to underserved popula

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News, Hot Topics, and Tips for Teachers for 2025

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teachers need to know what is happening and how technology (specifically AI) impacts their classroom.) Throughout 2025 I will create episodes for my podcast and radio/TV show that will cover these topics. In order to collect all of the hot trends and topics for 2025 in one place that I cover, I've created this post which can be bookmarked at [link] January 2025: Planning Your Year, Classroom Management, Apple Intelli

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Top Ten Posts and Tips for 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher

Since we started Ask a Tech Teacher fifteen years ago, we’ve had almost 6.3 million views and 3300 comments from about 11,500 followers who read some or all of our 2,454 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. We have regular features like: Weekly Websites and Tech Tips ( sign up for the newsletter ) Edtech Reviews Lesson plans If you’ve just arrived at Ask a Tech Teacher, sta

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Getting Ahead of AI: Strategies to Foster Critical Thinking and Academic Integrity

Digital Promise

The post Getting Ahead of AI: Strategies to Foster Critical Thinking and Academic Integrity appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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The 8 Learning Styles Every Teacher Should Know

ViewSonic Education

From color-coders and chatterboxes to quiet notetakers and hands-on builders, students absorb information in all kinds of ways. Thats where the 8 learning styles come in. While they arent hard science, theyre widely recognized as a helpful framework for understanding how different learners tickand how you can meet them where they are. Keep reading for classroom-ready strategies tied to each of the 8 learning stylesor explore how ViewSonic Education Software can support diverse learners today!

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Connecting learning to career exploration

eSchool News

Key points What students learn must change alongside new technologies and career demands Early STEM career awareness drives future success for students Real-life work experiences: The unseen curriculum for high school success For more news on career exploration, visit eSNs Innovative Teaching hub According to the Post Graduation Readiness Report by YouScience, 83 percent of students cannot connect the skills from school to future employment.

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AI Has Changed Student Cheating. But Strategies to Stop It Remain Consistent.

Edsurge

Teachers and professors can make adjustments in how they teach that will greatly reduce incidents of student cheating with AI. It turns out, those changes arent much different than what worked to deter previous cheating methods. Thats the argument of Tricia Bertram Gallant, a longtime expert in academic integrity who is director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California San Diego.

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Hāpara’s guide to organization tools for students

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Juggling schoolwork, extracurricular activities and a social life can feel like an uphill battle for learners. Staying organized amidst the whirlwind can be a major challenge. This constant scramble, complicated by distractions within the classroom or online learning environment can lead to stress, missed deadlines, and ultimately, hinder academic achievement.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Why Media Literacy Should Be Taught in Public Schools

EdTech4Beginners

As adults, we often navigate a sea of contradictory media reports. With age, it becomes easier to pick up on the nuances, biases, and misinformation within such reports. However, we cant expect the youth to understand the complexities of the media. Thats because their sole understanding of the media often comes from what they see on social media or their parents.

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10 ways to provide instant feedback to students

Ditch That Textbook

This post is sponsored by SnorklOne of the biggest drawbacks of today's school system is providing custom feedback for each student.For teachers, it's time-consuming. And many of us think. "If I spend all that time providing feedback and the student doesn't even look at it, what good does it do?"We've wrestled with this in […] The post 10 ways to provide instant feedback to students appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Elevate Learning: Discovery Education’s New Updates Spark Engagement and Personalization

EdNews Daily

Discovery Education, the creators of essential K-12 learning solutions used in classrooms around the world announced a host of exciting product updates during a special virtual event led by the companys Chief Product Officer Pete Weir. Based on feedback from the companys school-based partners, these updates make teaching and learning even more relevant, engaging, and personalized for users of Discovery Education products.

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K–12 Cloud Innovators Look Back While Moving Forward

EdTech Magazine

A bit over a decade ago, some forward-thinking school districts began to transition their on-premises email to the cloud. Around the same time, Chromebooks popped up, and as more schools invested in one-to-one device initiatives, more students connected to Googles suite of cloud applications. Then came cloud-hosted student information systems, learning management systems and countless learning apps that allow students to do everything from study their math facts to virtually dissect frogs.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Apple Intelligence and Its Impact on the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In todays ever-evolving educational landscape, technology continues to redefine how we teach and learn. Often, we didn't know it was coming or even approve its use on our campus but the operating system of our student's phones or ipads or laptops updates and now, a full suite of AI tools are suddenly available everywhere you can type a word.

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17 K-8 Digital Citizenship Topics

Ask a Tech Teacher

Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Learning isn’t confined to the eight hours between the school bells chimes or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. Today, education can be found anywhere, by teaming up with students in Kenya or Skyping with an author in Sweden or chatting with an astrophysicist on the International Space Station.

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Unlocking the Power of Human Connection in the Age of Technology

Digital Promise

The post Unlocking the Power of Human Connection in the Age of Technology appeared first on Digital Promise.

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One state tried algebra for all eighth graders. It hasn’t gone well

The Hechinger Report

This story about eighth grade algebra was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. BRAHAM, Minn. It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific notation, but fifteen minutes in, some students had lost focus.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Engaging the reluctant reader: Benefits of gamified learning in literacy education

eSchool News

On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading. These students are often reluctant readers because they find the process complicated, and they lack confidence in their abilities. At the same time, the percentage of students who say they read for pleasure is declining : Fewer than half of all children ages 8-18 (43 percent) say they enjoy reading in their spare time, down from 58 percent in 2016.

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Relationships Are Key to Kids’ Growth — And They’re in Crisis, Expert Says

Edsurge

Education in the 21st century is obsessed with assessing children, attempting to measure every aspect of their intelligence, learning and growth. Yet we are not, according to Isabelle Hau, measuring what matters: relationships. Theres a disconnect between what we know is really critical and then what were paying attention to, says Hau, executive director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and author of a new book about the essential role of relationships in healthy human development.

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How Appleton Area School District uses Hāpara for real-time learning visibility

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Customer Details Location : Appleton and Grand Chute, Wisconsin Number of students : Over 15,000 Age group : K-12 Tool they leverage : Hpara Highlights Year they adopted Hpara : 2014 Featuring : Educators Bobbie Jo Sorenson and Jonathon Zabel Appleton Area School District serves the communities of Appleton and Grand Chute, Wisconsin.

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Is an Online Doctorate Worth It? Comparing ROI with Traditional Programs

EdTech4Beginners

A doctorate degree is as far as you can take your education. The academic summit. In a world where about forty percent of the population goes to college at all, and a small fraction of that minority goes onto graduate school , doctorate degrees are truly rarified air. Online learning, though increasingly popular, is often viewed with a degree of skepticism by those who have only been exposed to more traditional learning avenues.

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.