Online professional learning facilitated by Dell
Dell Technologies is providing support to those affected by school closures and the move to distance learning by facilitating online ... Read more
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Sora reading app extends no cost ebooks and audiobooks to remote learners
Sora is a K-12 student reading app through which students and educators can access ebooks and audiobooks from OverDrive Education’s ... Read more
Open-ended learning and sharing opportunities
As the coronavirus continues to impact school districts, Education Elements is providing K-12 leaders with open-ended learning and sharing opportunities. ... Read more
LogMeIn extends free phone and unified communication services
LogMeIn, Inc. has expanded its Emergency Remote Work Kit offerings to include GoToConnect, the company’s cloud phone and Unified Communications ... Read more
Test Grading Cloud available to all teachers for free
Remark Test Grading Cloud available to all teachers for free, including electronic bubble sheets for distributing and grading assessments. In ... Read more
Free eLearning Academy to Support K-12 Students
Otus, a K-12 edtech company that provides the award winning Otus Student Performance Platform, today announced the launch of the ... Read more
Over 1500 free MackinClassic ebooks available to all K-12 schools
The free MackinVIA digital content management system is available to all schools and is providing users with hundreds of free ... Read more
COVID-19 pushes learning online
The inevitable spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, to the United States has prompted state leaders to close schools, leaving at least half of all U.S. students…
Encrypt Email and Attachments
Today, and in the coming days, data privacy will become even more important as the need to collaborate and share ... Read more
Teletherapy Support Sessions for Students
The response to the COVID-19 virus is unprecedented. Global Teletherapy services K-12 schools virtually with therapeutic services. Because of our ... Read more
10 priorities for K-12 IT leaders
School districts are moving to highly digital ecosystems, and K-12 IT leaders have more and more to manage to ensure that teaching and learning can go on uninterrupted…
Why lifelong learning matters for K-12 students
In an ever-changing global workforce, today's students are developing skills to make them productive members of tomorrow's workforce. Perhaps one of the most important skills they'll learn is…
5 priorities for broadband access
Equitable, reliable, and robust broadband access both on and off campus is essential to support digital learning and prepare K-12 students for life and work. The declaration is…
These 10 things will either hinder or support innovation in 2020
Digital equity remains a top hurdle to teaching and learning innovation in schools, while personalization and SEL will help accelerate innovation, according to a glimpse of CoSN's next…
4 questions to ask about multimedia content
When considering multimedia presentation systems for classroom use, one’s mind immediately goes to the hardware--the monitors, projectors, and other components often grab all the attention. But, what is…
20 K-12 edtech predictions for 2020
We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2020. Social-emotional learning will remain…
5 steps to building a future-ready K-12 network
Any investment you make in your network infrastructure should be driven by the learning objectives you’ve set. Creating a plan ... Read more
5 reasons to integrate STEM into online learning
STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—are highly technical, which is one reason that the education system is changing to further incorporate these subjects into the curriculum. As more…
3 amazing findings about digital and mobile learning
In order to support digital and mobile learning, students in K-12 classrooms need access to sufficient bandwidth, scalable and affordable broadband infrastructure, and robust Wi-Fi. And for the…
Empowering Students and Teachers with Successful 1:1 Learning
Like a growing number of K-12 school systems nationwide, New York’s Elmira City School District is connecting students with the ... Read more
Great K-12 robotics apps for users of all abilities
K-12 robotics is having more than a moment--it's on its way to establishing itself as a necessary component of a 21st-century education. While it can seem overwhelming, it's…
8 resources for robotics education
Robotics education is gaining STEAM (pun intended) in classrooms across the nation, and for good reason--it’s engaging, hands-on, and students learn real-world concepts as they solve challenges. And…
3 key parts of a K-12 coding or robotics program
K-12 teachers and administrators have been listening to policy makers and industry leaders warn of the need for computer science instruction, such as a coding or robotics program,…
How we found budget for student programs in our printers
Demographics Hatboro-Horsham School District, located in suburban Philadelphia, has a strong history of academic excellence. Serving approximately 5,000 students, the ... Read more
Three key trends in robotics education
Robots are hugely popular with kids. Want proof? Four of the 20 best-selling toys on Amazon during the 2018 holiday season were robots, robotics kits, or other electronic…
5 benefits this district got from K-12 esports
Esports is booming, from K-12 right on up to college and at the professional level. As more districts start K-12 esports leagues of their own, the academic and…
Digital teaching and learning in the smartphone era
For much of the past two decades, educators have commonly referred to millennials as “digital natives.” Given that they are the first generation to grow up with access…
3 districts that battled malware–and won–with endpoint security
It's not exactly a secret that most educational institutions are vulnerable to data breaches and security hacks. All it takes is one attack to freeze school operations and…
Here’s how to upgrade your firewall before your school gets hacked!
In 2018, there were 122 publicly-disclosed cybersecurity incidents that affected 119 public K-12 education agencies across 38 states. Even more ... Read more
Here’s how to put coding and robotics programs in K-8 classrooms
Coding and robotics programs in classrooms reflect how integral technology is in our lives. Educators like Angie Kalthoff, a technology integrationist in St. Cloud, MN, and Ann Bartel,…
The coolest K-12 robotics programs we saw at ISTE
Efforts to get kids coding have exploded in recent years, but sometimes kids need a push to discover the "why" behind learning how to code. At ISTE 2019,…
10 signs you’re doing SEL right
Teachers, school counselors, and school leaders impact student social-emotional learning (SEL) to the degree that they transform each student’s mindset by empowering the self of the student.SEL is…
7 things supporting broadband best practices
State leadership can have a powerful impact on broadband best practices in K-12 schools--and a new report highlights success stories and strong policies supporting broadband connectivity.State K-12 Broadband…
5 edtech accelerators that are changing K-12
Five powerful edtech accelerators are influencing the skills and needs of K-12 students and educators, according to a new CoSN report released during the advocacy group’s 2019 conference. …
6 questions to ask to build a culturally inclusive classroom
It’s almost impossible to ignore that K-12 classrooms in the U.S. are filled with students from increasingly diverse cultural backgrounds: race, nationality, religion, economic, etc.
Why K-12 accounts payable teams should embrace automation
Across the country, K-12 schools are embracing technology to strengthen learning and engagement inside the classroom. But while technology has an ever-increasing presence in the classroom, the opposite…
5 things you don’t know about K-12 virtual learning
Online learning has come a long way since its early champions saw it as a supplement to classroom learning.
10 findings about K-12 digital learning
Digital learning itself is expanding in schools, but access to classroom and home technology still remains a major obstacle, according to a new study from Schoology. The State…
5 things standing between K-12 schools and innovation
Sustaining and scaling innovation is one of the top hurdles K-12 district leaders face as they strive to bring new and bold ideas to education, according to a…
#4: 25 education trends for 2018
Year after year, educators and those invested in education love to speculate about what will take off in the near future.