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Tech Transformation: One School District’s Guide to Implementing Interactive Flat Panels

Modernizing classroom technology can be a challenging but rewarding process. Gibram “German” Alvarez, Network Technology Specialist in the IT ... Read more

Digital Learning Tools

Growing communicative, knowledge-building composers: A focus on process

Digital skills are are skills students will use for life, and they’re already part of many state and national standards.

Teaching writing today is much like being a conductor of an orchestra. Just like a conductor brings together different instruments and dynamics to create a cinematic score or…

Live @ FETC 2025

Show Floor News–Supporting Teachers with AI

AI can’t replace teachers, but it can support them. Merlyn, a voice-controlled AI classroom assistant from Merlyn Mind, is designed ... Read more

Edtech Trends

Skibidi anarchy: Post-pandemic classroom technology

Digital learning tools can help meet legitimate classroom needs and appeal to students in ways that meet students where they are.

Today’s kids are built differently. It’s the number one recurring theme in conversations with educators at every level, from the classroom to the district office. It’s not just…

Edtech Trends

6 critical insights into teachers’ technology use

Educators want more edtech and say interactive displays and apps with ready-made lesson content are at the top of their technology wish lists.

Teachers' classroom technology use continues to grow, according to a recent survey that reveals compelling data about teachers' experiences, challenges, and preferences regarding the use of technology in…

Newsline

Survey Reveals Critical Insight Into Teachers’ Technology Use and Challenges

CALGARY, AB – A recent survey conducted by SMART Technologies’ Lumio software revealed compelling data about teachers’ experiences, challenges, and preferences regarding the use of technology ... Read more

Students with Special Needs

As a paradeducator, here’s how I use tech to help neurodivergent students gain agency

As educators learn how technology impacts neurodivergent students, they can continue to provide students with better help.

As a paraeducator, I see how the most basic uses of classroom technology can create barriers for my students--especially those who struggle with executive functions.

Live @ ISTE 2024

It’s All About Engagement—MIND Education’s New Tools for Teachers

MIND Education’s aim for ISTE2024 next week is to highlight innovations designed to make learning more interactive and impactful through ... Read more

Digital Learning Tools

Getting the most ROI from your classroom technology

An interactive whiteboard includes many modern features that help enhance active learning and increase engagement

During the COVID-19 pandemic, school districts across the United States received a timely infusion of funds to upgrade edtech in the classroom.

Newsline

Vivi for Teachers Launches to Bring Free Classroom Technology to Educators

Vivi, the only wireless screen mirroring and digital signage solution purpose-built for education, today announces the launch of Vivi for ... Read more

Build back stronger – today. Make the impossible, possible with VR

We’re ClassVR. We’ve been pioneering K-12 classroom technology for almost 20 years. We explore 7 emerging approaches, and how they’re ... Read more

Classroom Management

5 ways tech helps create calmer learning environments

Digital tools can help educators and mental health professionals create calm learning environments and instill mindfulness into classes.

When I started as a school counselor more than 15 years ago, technology in the classroom looked much different than it does today. Only a handful of students…

Choosing Classroom Technology: 7 Key Factors to Consider

The edtech marketplace is quite extensive, and there are now literally hundreds of instructional apps and software programs for educators ... Read more

Pillars of Today’s K-12 Classroom

Technology is at the center of every modern classroom. How can you keep up and provide a strong learning foundation ... Read more

District Management

How to fund 3 must-have classroom tech tools

Funding challenges shouldn't prevent you from putting innovative classroom tech tools in your district--these strategies can help.

Classroom technology is essential, and nothing made that more obvious than the COVID-19 pandemic that forced learning to go virtual and hybrid. Technology upgrades help make students feel…

Ancillary

3 steps to better edtech integration

Burnout in the education system highlights the importance of technology integration to improve edtech processes

The pandemic forced a significant shift from traditional classrooms to virtual and hybrid teaching environments--often before schools and districts were ready. It quickly became apparent that reliable virtual…

Newsline

Industry-Leading Charging Cart Company Launches new Caddy to Support Classroom Technology

To provide safety to children and their technology in classrooms across the United States, an industry leader in charging solutions ... Read more

District Management

3 must-have classroom tech innovations–and how to fund them

Classroom technology is an essential part of learning--here's how to find the tools and the funding to implement it in your school.

Classroom technology is more than a nice amenity--it's critical for student learning and engagement.

Newsline

Nureva XT Classroom Solutions Extend In-room Experience to Remote Students

Calgary, Alberta — September 15, 2021 — Nureva Inc., an innovator in advanced audio conferencing solutions, announces Nureva® XT classroom ... Read more

eSchool Media

3 ways to build better edtech processes for teaching and learning

Classroom Innovations

3 ways to support teachers in flexible learning environments

Modernizing classrooms and creating flexible learning environments can completely overhaul teaching and learning

Flexible learning environments have been a popular buzzword for a while now. Traditionally, flexible learning environments address the flexible use of the physical space as well as how…

Newsline

Promethean Continues Streak as Market Leader for Interactive Flat Panel Displays in US and EMEA

HONG KONG, June 10, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (NetDragon or the Company; HKG: 777), a ... Read more

District Management

District Technology Specialist: These are the critical success factors for 1:1

At Banks County Schools, a rural school district in the mountains of northeast Georgia, it feels like we’re at the end and also the beginning of a very…

Edtech Trends

The Friday 4: Your weekly ed-tech rewind

Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting news and thought-provoking developments from the past week. I can’t fit all of this week's news stories here, though,…

IT Management

6 tools for real formative assessment

As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the foreground…

News

Classroom displays new interactive learning technologies

BOXLIGHT Corp., an interactive classroom technology manufacturer and K-12 education solutions provider, has partnered with Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn to create a showcase classroom that will enable…

Teaching Trends

Optimizing Classroom Technology

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IT Management

Five strategies for using classroom technology

Technology and digital media continue to represent a powerful pathway for advancing the goals of education, including raising academic achievement and preparing students for college and career, according…

Teaching Trends

6 small grants for teachers that could make a big difference

This month’s grants focus on mostly smaller sums ideal for individual classroom teachers or projects. Check out these funding opportunities for teachers, students, parents, and administrators–there’s likely to…

District Management

Six tips for classroom technology success

The LEGO Education Advisory Panel (LEAP) advises LEGO Education, the education division within the LEGO group, on how to meet the needs of educators and students. The panel…

IT Management

Infographic: Teachers and administrators want more classroom technology

According to a new national online survey, 92 percent of teachers polled said they would like to use more educational technology in the classroom, highlighting the growing national…

IT Management

Classroom technology: Turning our kids into nerds

In this infographic from MyScienceAcademy.org, you will find a detailed look at perceptions about the problems and possibilities of technology in the classroom.

IT Management

Discussions on classroom technology ask wrong questions, experts say

In the education community, there is a common analogy comparing emerging technologies and blended learning models with the common pencil, the Deseret News reports.

District Management

Other countries facing common ed-tech struggles

U.S. educators spend much time touting the benefits of taking a global look at classroom technology, but many countries struggle with the same ed-tech challenges facing the U.S.,…

District Management

Idaho kicks off school laptop bidding process

Idaho has started accepting bids for a contract to provide every high school student and teacher with a laptop or similar device.

District Management

Teachers: Budgets block classroom technology access

Despite advances in digital learning tools and efforts to close the ed-tech access gap, school budgets remain one of the biggest barriers to classroom technology access, according to…

Teaching Trends

As ed-tech funding reaches Idaho schools, officials mull how to use it

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Curriculum

Gearing up for the new school year

In the past I have dusted off curriculum binders, gathered a supply of whiteboard markers (so recently replacing chalk), and put up a framework for bulletin boards to…

eClassroom News

Coming soon to a preschool classroom near you: Robot teachers?

To help spur interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, many schools have begun to integrate robotics into the curriculum—but are younger students and their teachers ready for…

IT Management

IT officials: Only one in 10 campuses have ‘cutting edge’ technology

Most college students say their schools understand how to use education technology in the lecture hall, but only 9 percent of campus IT officials describe their institution’s technology…

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