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A majority of educators fear students may become dependent on generative AI tools for basic tasks.

Bailey Brown was 4 when her parents had her tested for New York’s gifted-and-talented program. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1990s, Brown had little understanding at the time why she was taking the test or what her answers meant to her examiner. Year...[Read More]

These 32 research-based instructional strategies include Setting Objectives and Reinforcing Effort/Providing Recognition. Source

During our focus group, a middle school media and library specialist from New York sighed and said: “We don’t need another policy about what not to do with AI. We need a philosophy that helps teachers think critically about these tools.” This sentime...[Read More]

Tom Vander Ark: For anyone who has read my work or listened to our podcast, it’s clear that I’m deeply passionate about sustainability. Growing up, I spent countless hours exploring nature and learning about the environment, sparking a lifelong fasci...[Read More]

Public school districts across the country are facing declining enrollment and shrinking budgets. This reality is forcing district leaders to make difficult decisions about how to use limited funds. It’s more important than ever for these leaders to ...[Read More]

Schools need continuity plans that feature teaching without the help of technology.

‘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 storyt...[Read More]

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, elabora...[Read More]