Fred Rogers and Technological Opportunity This past summer, while working on the 2025 Blaschke Report, I had the opportunity to visit the Fred Rogers Center in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Alongside my…| CoSN
EdTech Professional Development Introduction The successful implementation of educational technology (EdTech) tools in classrooms is dependent on educators having a nuanced understanding of the resource they will use, its pedagogical…| CoSN
Preparation and Progress Introduction K-12 schools are designed for social AND professional induction. They aim to teach concrete skills that can be used in the workforce while simultaneously fostering socio-emotional growth. The concrete skills that students need to learn, however, have become progressively more difficult to narrow down. The rise…| CoSN
A Digital Childhood Introduction Children in the United States are growing up in a media ecosystem that is drastically different than that of most adults. This generation of kids have been afforded widespread, consistent, largely unregulated access to the internet via personal devices. Much of the national conversation over children'…| CoSN
Performance Without Paper In a previous post, we identified three primary manifestations of “screen time” in K-12 spaces (those being Cell Phones/Social Media, Educational Technology, and Entertainment). Educational technology, hereafter referred to as “EdTech,” may be conflated with digital entertainment and/or cell phone use despite their differing purposes AND market…| CoSN
Cell Phones, Schools, and Solutions Over the past year, cell phone use has been a dominant force in the conversation on technology’s role in American classrooms. Many educators, advocates, and parents have expressed concern over generation alpha’s adherence to personal devices. The development of attention spans, critical thinking, and socio-emotional…| CoSN
Support education technology leadership development through The Charles Blaschke EdTech Fund. Learn about funding opportunities and impact.| CoSN
Widely available EdTech may be of concern to K-12 leaders because products used at home will likely not align with district-level technology initiatives and programs.| CoSN
Educators at the classroom, school, and district level should work to help the community differentiate between the varying definitions of “screen time” that manifest in their classrooms.| CoSN
According to YouTube, 1 billion hours of videos are watched on the site every day, and the platform has over 2 billion users. The video site has also| Pew Research Center
