Howard Dvorsky

Joanna Cook, chief technology officer at East Noble School Corporation in Indiana, had a problem. “We were transitioning from iPads to Chromebooks, but I was getting pushback from our elementary school special needs educators.” Cook emailed the situation to the 1,600 members on the HECC (Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators) listserv. Within hours, tech leaders from all over the state respond...[Read More]

All photos by Sam Chaltain In these final weeks of August, as summer’s meandering pace winds down, a new school year across the country is gradually getting underway. How should those 180 days best be spent? And of all the things our schools could place at the center of their curricula, what choices would allow kids not just to learn something new, but create something beautiful and lasting in the...[Read More]

Ed tech company Cambium Learning Group has announced plans to combine its ExploreLearning and Learning A-Z brands, with a new name and brand identity to be introduced in early 2026.

Ed tech company Brisk Teaching has introduced Brisk Next, and AI-powered platform for planning, creating, and delivering instruction.

Heather Gauck has spent most of her three-decade teaching career sleep-deprived — turning in after midnight and waking up at dawn. The Michigander made the sacrifice to ensure she completed all the lesson planning and grading needed to serve her special education students in Grand Rapids Public Schools while raising three children of her own. But with artificial intelligence, Gauck has now reclaim...[Read More]

Chemistry teacher Marcie Samayoa went back to paper-and-pencil lessons this school year. It’s led to deeper engagement.

Support for some AI use in schools has declined, according to the latest PDK poll on American attitudes toward public education.

Avantis Education recently introduced two new headsets for its flagship educational VR/AR solution, ClassVR. According to a news release, the Xcelerate and Xplorer headsets expand the company’s offerings into higher education while continuing to meet the evolving needs of K–12 users.

Discussion about the use of AI in the classroom has become as commonplace as pencils or notebooks, but many have struggled when it comes to implementing and deploying the ubiquitous technology. A new report looks at how — and if — AI tools specifically geared toward the education sector can ultimately help educators. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit helping parents navigate technology and media, re...[Read More]

For Christianna Thomas, a senior at Heights High School in Texas, an artificial intelligence policy once stymied an attempt to learn. Thomas is in her school’s International Baccalaureate program, which uses an AI detector to check for plagiarism. “We use AI to check for other types of AI,” Thomas says. But at the school, AI also sifts information. When trying to research what the education system...[Read More]

By: David Nitkin and Tess Reed The “one teacher, one classroom” model is a shared experience for most American students. For over a century, we’ve been learning in rows of desks, batched by age, completing assignments designed for all yet tailored to none. This approach to teaching and learning worked to prepare young people for life in the industrial era, but a century’s worth of changes to the e...[Read More]

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