Howard Dvorsky

‘3 Before Me’ requires that when students are stuck, they must first try to solve the problem in 3 different ways before asking the teacher. Source

The 1EdTech Consortium recently announced it will lead a cross-sector collaboration “to define how AI can responsibly and effectively support teaching and learning.”

Printers may not be glamorous, but they are an often-overlooked attack vector that should be part of every district’s cybersecurity strategy.

CrunchLabs, the maker of STEM activity kits for kids founded by NASA engineer turned YouTube science communicator Mark Rober, has launched Class CrunchLabs, a collection of free standards-aligned science curriculum resources that combine video storytelling with hands-on classroom challenges.

One of Edmund W. Gordon’s early experiences in psychological assessment planted the idea of its potential to advance learning, and not just to measure and rank status. This is a tune that Dr. Gordon has hummed since that formative experience, elaborating it and creating a melody that made sense in a clinical community. He then expanded it to a cohort of scholars and students, encompassing a broad ...[Read More]

This story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. It was the first week of school. I was scrolling one evening when a post stopped me cold. A parent of a kindergarten student was frustrated that she had emailed her child’s teacher four times and received only one reply. I braced for the familiar pile-on. Instead, something different happened. Parents floo...[Read More]

Learning platform Brainly has announced ClarityPods, a library of audio sessions designed to help improve students’ focus, emotional regulation, and self-belief.

“Entrepreneurship is the job of the future”  -Charles Fadel, Education for the Age of AI The traditional high school curriculum was designed for the 20th-century economy: memorize facts, follow instructions, and land a steady job at a large, stable corporation. Today, that economy is a relic. We now live in a world defined by exponential technological change, unpredictable market shifts, and a diz...[Read More]

For the last six years, patrons of the Brown County Public Library, nestled in rural Ohio, checked out portable Wi-Fi hot spots in droves. The 60 hot spots circulated more than 1,300 times a year, used by, for example, students logging into online school portals, a sick mother attending a telehealth appointment, and a recently laid off factory worker accessing Zoom for a job interview. In a region...[Read More]

CoSN and SETDA, in partnership with IT and telecommunications solution provider UDT, recently released a set of Sustainability Procurement Guidelines designed to help K-12 school and district leaders, procurement officers, and technology directors make purchasing decisions that are both environmentally responsible and operationally effective.

These five strategies social emotional learning strategies will not only benefit students, but can also be beneficial to teachers, too. Source

Anyone who regularly cooks knows that feeling when you realize you’ve gotten in over your head. Maybe a pot of pasta is boiling over on the stove just as you’re supposed to be browning chicken in a pan and mixing around some vegetables roasting in the oven. Plus you still have to mince garlic, chop herbs and grate Parmesan. If only you had more hands! Of course, this is just home cooking we’re tal...[Read More]