A new app called Sway is being tested on university campuses to facilitate constructive conversations on difficult topics.| EdScoop
The Educational Technology Accelerator Program at USC has opened applications for its latest cohort of startups.| EdScoop
Indiana University has announced what it says is the nation's second-largest deployment of ChatGPT Edu.| EdScoop
I Gave Google Classroom the Side-Eye 😒 4 Apps Didn’t Survive 😱🪦💐 One minute I’m writing a blog post, the next I’m in a Meet with Google's researchers and UX team speaking in calm and upbeat tones like I'm a raccoon they’ve found rummaging through their product kitchen. What they told me: 🐾 Four of the apps? Gone. 🔨 The rest? Completely rebuilt. I didn’t know whether to take a victory lap or send condolence flowers to Mountain View. But here’s the part keeping me ...| Beta Classroom
Last week in Chicago, I had the privilege of co-hosting the AI Education Trailblazers convening alongside our powerhouse partners at...| Beta Classroom
Today's middle schoolers continue to struggle post-pandemic to read and write at the level needed to successfully navigate more complex academic content in the upper grades and beyond.| eSchool News
A new study reveals that while there is wide agreement that student engagement plays a vital role in learning, educators continue to face uncertainty about what engagement looks like, how best to measure it, and how to sustain it. Education Insights 2025–2026: Fueling Learning Through Engagement captures prevailing attitudes and beliefs on the topic of engagement from 1,398 […]| ET-Mag
ParentSquare announced the launch of ParentSquare Attendance Plus, a powerful new solution designed to help K–12 districts reduce chronic absenteeism through early, compassionate communication. Built directly into the ParentSquare platform, ParentSquare Attendance Plus supports every stage of attendance outreach from tiered data insights to intervention documentation while further strengthening relationships between families and schools. With […]| ET-Mag
Commentary by Charles Sosnik You were still in school when you had that fool Who really messed your mind And after that, you turned your back On treating people kind On our first trip, I tried so hard To rearrange your mind But after a while, I realized You were disarranging mine You better stop, […]| ET-Mag
A new national survey from Lexia, a Cambium Learning Group brand, points to an opportunity for district leaders to work in concert with teachers to provide families with the science of reading-based literacy resources they need to support student reading success. The 2025 Back-to-School Teacher Survey, with input from more than 1,500 K–12 educators nationwide, […]| ET-Mag
VHS Learning, a nonprofit helping high schools add more course choices for their students, today announced new partnerships with high schools across the United States and around the world. These schools are joining more than 500 others already using VHS Learning to expand their programs of study and provide students with access to over 200 teacher-led online courses to earn| ET-Mag
AI Isn’t Replacing Teachers — It’s Helping Us Teach Better via @matthew_mawn #education #edchat #teaching #AI #backtoschool| Learning as I go: Reflections & lessons learned
Yourway Learning has secured $9M to expand its purpose-built AI for K–12 education. The platform helps reduce teacher workloads, personalize learning, and promote equity—ensuring technology supports, not replaces, human connection in the classroom.| Causeartist
In this episode of Trending in Education, Mike Palmer hosts Charles Beyrouthy, Managing Partner at Forma Prime, a venture capital The post Quantum Insights and the Future of Deep Tech with Charles Beyrouthy, Managing Partner at Forma Prime appeared first on Trending in Education.| Trending in Education
Exploring generative AI's impact on intellectual property, copyright, and education, urging evolved policies for digital age creativity and fairness. The post Is Plagiarism an Old-World Construct? appeared first on Getting Smart.| Getting Smart
Wisconsin’s Whitnall School District (WSD) today announced that it has selected several new adaptive and engaging edtech solutions from Discovery Education for classroom use. These new digital resources will be used by teachers districtwide to enhance instruction and support student achievement in math, science, and reading. Discovery Education is the maker of essential PreK-12 learning solutions used in classrooms around […]| ET-Mag
ClassDojo has joined The Education Cooperative’s Standardized Data Privacy Agreement (TEC SDPA), a nationally recognized, multi-state framework that streamlines the contracting process for district leaders to adopt trusted edtech tools. This pre-approved agreement, now active in 14 states and growing, gives districts a ready-to-use, FERPA- and COPPA-aligned pathway to launch ClassDojo quickly, confidently, and at scale — with […]| ET-Mag
A newly released independent evaluation by Marzano Research on behalf of the Idaho State Board of Education has identified Lexia Core5 Reading, a program from Lexia, a Cambium Learning Group brand, as the most effective K–3 literacy program in the state. Among nine digital and blended programs reviewed for the 2025 fiscal year, Core5 earned the highest overall […]| ET-Mag
ParentSquare announced that adoption of its Smart Sites school website solution has grown more than sevenfold since 2023. Nearly one-third of ParentSquare customers have already turned to Smart Sites to unify their website, communication, and family engagement efforts in one seamless platform they know, use, and love. ParentSquare Smart Sites is a modern website solution that […]| ET-Mag
By Nick Potkatitsky We need to talk about the students sitting in our classrooms right now. They didn’t ask to be here—caught up through no choice of their own in one of the most profoundly transitional moments in the history of education. Yet here they are, navigating a landscape that shifts beneath their feet with […]| ET-Mag
Explore how public seed funding like SBIR drives EdTech innovation, scaling tools to empower 130M learners while fostering AI-powered education futures. The post Catalyzing the Future of Learning: How Public Seed Funding Drives EdTech Innovation and Scale appeared first on Getting Smart.| Getting Smart
Back to School: Building Skills for the Future Starts Now via @Rdene915 #education #edtech #AI #edchat #backtoschool #k12 #PBL| Learning as I go: Reflections & lessons learned
When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.| Rest of World
Ten women-led startups have been selected to join the fifth cohort of the Standard Chartered Futuremakers Women in Tech (WiT) Accelerator Program, an initiative by Standard Chartered Bank. Launched in 2020 and implemented in partnership with Village Capital and the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre, the incubator equips women-led or owned tech-enabled businesses with the essential […]| The Innovation Spark
ClassDojo today announced a major expansion of its ClassDojo for Districts platform, launching new features designed to help district leaders unify communication, strengthen family engagement, and streamline oversight across schools—all while helping districts adapt to deepening budget pressures. With ongoing cuts to federal education funding, leaders are under increasing pressure to do more with less. These new updates—available for the 2025–26 school| ET-Mag
By Nick Potkalitsky, PhD Google's summer 2025 deployment of Gemini for Education represents more than an AI upgrade—it's a strategic consolidation move that threatens to reshape the educational technology landscape. While the company frames its LearnLM-powered suite as pedagogically superior, the real story lies in how Google is leveraging its existing enterprise dominance to crowd out specialized competitors who've spent years| ET-Mag
By: Nick Gaehde In 2006, Stanford professor Dr. Carol Dweck introduced the world to a new concept: “growth” vs. “fixed” mindsets. The idea was the focus of her best-selling book, “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,” which was based on decades of research by her and her colleagues. According to the research, students with a fixed mindset (the belief that intelligence and| ET-Mag
By Phillip Alcock It's difficult to imagine education ever returning to its previous state since the arrival of Generative AI in classrooms. It was around two years ago in Monterrey, Mexico, I began exploring how artificial intelligence might reshape project-based learning. What started as experimental teaching has evolved into a significant approach now frequently referred to as| ET-Mag
By LeiLani Cauthen Most educators and indeed, consumers, are aware so far only of Generative AI. That’s because it is consumer-facing and we can directly interact with it. Generative AI is only the beginning, shallow end of the pool, however. As a futurist, I’m always curious about what trends and new technologies really mean. What will happen as they progress, the different| ET-Mag
By Joel Backon In a recent “After Babel” Substack post, Zach Rausch and Jon Haidt introduce us to Emily Brownlee, a former teacher and mother of three. She shares her speech with the Kansas State Board of Education, conveying a message that is not new: technology bears much of the blame for schools’ failure to prepare students for life. What is| ET-Mag
By Alison Mitchell, Ph.D. & David Rose The promise of education is not only to supply students with skills and knowledge, but also to foster the ability to problem-solve in the classroom and beyond. Student mindset has been theorized as a meaningful factor on this front. More specifically, the idea that students with a higher tendency toward a growth mindset -| ET-Mag
By Charles Sosnik If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which| ET-Mag
Twenty-five tech-enabled startups, spanning industries such as education, health, nutrition, WASH, climate action, financial inclusion, and youth employment, have been selected for the 5th cohort of the UNICEF StartUp Lab accelerator programme. Participating startups will go through a structured curriculum of six venture-building modules, covering areas such as product development, business modelling, finance, marketing, and […]| The Innovation Spark
By establishing standards and keeping them updated, state educational boards can serve our students well by preparing them for an increasingly high-tech future.| CodeMonkey
Most of our common assumptions about assessment are wrong, perpetuating the poorly performing system in which we are trapped. Continue reading →| Ed Tech Now
How the modern variant on Aristotle's theory of phronesis originated and why it offers a partial and unhelpful account of teaching expertise Continue reading →| Ed Tech Now
Lexia, a Cambium Learning Group brand, has launched Lexia LETRS Connect, a digital platform where graduates of the Lexia LETRS Professional Learning course can further their understanding of the science of reading. The platform provides users with access to their previously completed course as well as the latest literacy research, instructional best practices, and actionable tools. “LETRS graduates expressed a desire for ongoing learning opportunities| ET-Mag
Texas’ McKinney Independent School District (MISD) today announced that it has selected DreamBox Math by Discovery Education, an adaptive and engaging EdTech solution, to support math instruction in grades K-5. An innovative online math program that supports core instruction in the classroom or at home, DreamBox Math is independently proven by several third-party research organizations to increase math achievement. Discovery Education is the creator| ET-Mag
In May 2023, Chegg's market value was sliced in half practically overnight. The culprit? ChatGPT. This post breaks down how the EdTech giant's seemingly impenetrable moat turned to quicksand and reveals the urgent, non-obvious lessons for any business built on proprietary information in the age of AI. Learn the three critical questions you need to ask now before your value proposition becomes obsolete.| LBZ Advisory
Learning online has become quite a norm after the recent Pandemic. In fact, institutes are investing...| Goglides Dev 🌱
All students should have transformational edtech learning experiences that spark their imagination and prepare them to thrive in life.| eSchool News
In California, third- to fifth-grade students at 525 schools using Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) from Lexia, a Cambium Learning Group brand, made significantly higher literacy gains compared to their peers in 4,362 schools that did not use the program. The schools were highlighted in a recently released report which compared the students’ performance on the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy (SBAC ELA) assessment. Core5| ET-Mag
Developing AI Literacy via @Rdene915 #education #edchat #edtech #AI #literacy #learning #students| Learning as I go: Reflections & lessons learned
ISTELive 25 aims to spark joyful learning and immerse attendees in the latest edtech-centric teaching and learning strategies.| eSchool News
Learn how CISOs can become influential leaders at higher education institutions once they attain the Chief Information Security Officer role.| Vantage Technology Consulting Group
By Catherine Truitt When I took office as North Carolina's State Superintendent of Public Instruction in January 2021, our state's literacy landscape resembled many others across the country. Three-cueing—a decades-old approach to early literacy instruction that is not grounded in learning science--was the dominant form of early literacy instruction, leading to a generation of low reading proficiency rates. The statistics are sobering.| ET-Mag
Educause's 2025 Horizon report reveals a complex landscape — from new VR applications to uncertain social and regulatory factors — shifting the priorities of educators.| EdScoop
Edtech unicorn is focusing beyond English-speaking world as Canada and US cut immigration numbers.| BetaKit
Discover Klasio: the top LMS for beginners, making course management simple. Enjoy a clear layout, practical tools, and fast setup.| weMail
Development of cognitive skills, especially executive functions, addresses developmental needs in the areas of behavior, self-regulation, and independence, as well as learning. Children with developmental delays typically exhibit lower executive functioning skills compared to their typically developing peers. Executive functions, specifically, working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility, are crucial for planning, organizing, and self-regulating behavior. These skills are ...| ET-Mag
Roses are red. Violets are blue. I need a break, how about you? It’s February. As much as routines are in place and students are usually flying academically this time of year, it can also be an extra stressful time with second-trimester report cards around the corner, summative evaluation meetings, and students pushing limits with … Continue reading Sometimes You Just Need to Go All Gerry Brooks| Confessions of a Former Instructional Coach
Discovery Education announced that the Science Techbook for Indiana for grades 6-8 has been added to the state’s High Quality Curriculum Materials Advisory List by the Indiana Department of Education and is available for use in classrooms statewide. This dynamic core instructional curriculum was created expressly for Indiana educators and students and is aligned to the Indiana Academic Standards. Science Techbook for Indiana empowers Indiana school| ET-Mag
As U.S. industries face growing demand for skilled technical talent, Intelitek, a global leader in career and technical education (CTE), is helping high schools equip their students with the practical, job-ready skills employers need. The company today announced the launch of its new portable Electrical Systems Trainer and CFS Electrical Circuits course, part of Intelitek’s CTE Fundamentals Series (CFS), designed to deliver hands-on learning with| ET-Mag
ClassDojo, the flagship communications and engagement app announced the appointment of its inaugural customer advisory board. The board will help guide future company initiatives and serve as a peer-to-peer forum for discussing best practices and pressing issues in school communications and family engagement. The invitation-only group is led by Chad A. Stevens, Ph.D., Head of K-12 Engagement for ClassDojo, and will meet| ET-Mag
Discovery Education announced the recipients of the second annual Discovery Education Awards. The Discovery Education Awards honor districts, schools, and educators who accelerate achievement among students by inspiring curiosity and connecting learning to the world beyond the classroom. The Discovery Education Awards recognize those who have positively impacted student learning by adapting and personalizing instruction to better pique curiosity and engagement.| ET-Mag
Education is Over. Adapt or Die is your tactical field guide for surviving the AI revolution in learning. Written by educator and systems thinker Graeme Smith, this bold manifesto breaks down how AI is dismantling traditional education—and what smart educators must do to thrive. Discover how to automate the boring, elevate the human, and lead the learning future. This isn’t reform. It’s ignition. Whether you’re a teacher, trainer, or trailblazer, this book will help you evolve—or ri...| 🌀thisisGRAEME
There are some great online tutoring platforms for high school students out there. We did the research for you and found the best options.| Busy Mommy Media
AI for neurodiverse learners is revolutionizing education, providing personalized support for dyslexia, ADHD, and autism. Discover how ALEC GPT enhances literacy, organisation, and executive function to empower ND students to thrive.| 🌀thisisGRAEME
This article is written by Eve Hill, one of the leading disability rights lawyers and digital accessibility legal specialists in the United States. (More about Eve at the end of this article.) Eve shares information about a lawsuit her law firm recently filed against a United States public universit| Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Understand the unique role of a CISO, learn about career milestones and essential skills, and explore the role's challenges and opportunities.| Vantage Technology Consulting Group
The SAMR model helps teachers understand and correctly incorporate educational technologies into the classroom.| Observatory - Institute for the Future of Education
Much of the ‘critical’ academic discourse on ethics and accessibility in relation to new technology does not eat its own dog food. It doesn’t bother to take the time to carefully define, cate…| Matthew Moran
Discover how AI transforms EdTech marketing automation, personalization, and predictive analytics for enhanced customer acquisition and engagement.| Insivia
Higher ed has considerable power to positively influence the tech ecosystem, not by moaning about capitalism, or waiting to see what happens. We have to do it by quickly identifying and aggressively advancing innovative and progressive use cases. So when do we start?| Matthew Moran
Engage modern learners with digital marketing strategies like personalized content, video marketing, gamification, and community building.| Insivia
Hidden in conversation are a whole host of metaphors, which are pictorial clues to the stories being told. Contrasting two metaphors allows us to compare how different each one feels from the other. That being said, for those living in bungalows, this might need some explaining… This illustration was created for a series of credentialing […] The post Microcredentials and Recognition appeared first on Open Visual Thinkery.| Open Visual Thinkery
What creates the spark behind an illustration? There's nothing I love better than playing idea ping-pong with a co-collaborator.| Open Visual Thinkery
In a data-driven world, technology can override the importance of teaching and learning with our bodies in physical spaces.| Observatory - Institute for the Future of Education
As the new school year kicks off, both students, parents, and educators are sharpening their pencils and plugging in devices.| Hypepotamus
The purpose of these approaches is not to predict a single future, but to imagine, experience and feel multiple possible futures, and to discuss and debate what we want our futures to be like, and what we don’t want them to be.| Matthew Moran
This is one of the biggest awards in EdTech and among STEM educators worldwide. These prestigious accolades, meticulously assessed by distinguished STEM educators, stand as a testament to CodeMonkey's commitment to transforming the landscape of STEM and Computer Science education for young students.| CodeMonkey
Many higher ed faculty recently surveyed said they feel the effects of burn out and reported belief education is not "heading in the right direction."| EdScoop
Sure Valley Ventures backs London firm looking to automate marking and personalise feedback of paper-based assessments| BusinessCloud
It's that time of year--educators and industry leaders offer their expert advice, trends, and predictions for a fun back-to-school experience| eSchool News
Explore how managers can drive AI integration in education by providing support, ethical oversight, and strategic leadership. Learn how to empower educators with AI today!| THISISGRAEME
AI is transforming education, offering new opportunities and challenges. Our latest report reveals key insights from 104 educators and 14 AI experts, highlighting a pressing need for AI training, ethical concerns around data privacy, and the potential of AI to enhance or exacerbate inequities. Learn how educators, AI experts, and policymakers can collaborate to responsibly integrate AI into classrooms and unlock its full potential.| THISISGRAEME
Discover the best LMS integrations to enhance your e-learning platform. Learn how the right tools improve UX and optimize educational processes.| SpdLoad
The online education provider 2U has announced it's restructuring its debt and that it's filed for bankruptcy.| EdScoop
The Department of Education published a guide with recommendations for edtech AI developers that includes provisions on equity and transparency.| EdScoop
Because I was too busy indulging in self-pity in my last post I forgot to blog about Udacity being acquired by Accenture to build a platform to take advantage of AI, blah, blah. Audrey Watters taking a rare foray back into ed tech to say “I told you so” reminded me to blog something. Audrey says it better, but that’s never stopped me before… There are lots of takeaways from this tale. Here are some that occur to me:| The Ed Techie
I’ve been reading some interesting takes on horror recently: the meta-fiction of Native American author Stephen Graham-Jones; the influential feminist analysis of horror exploitation movies Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol Clover; a personal account of the importance of horror in Kris Rose’s Final Girl: How Horror Movies Made Me a Better Feminist; and The Black Guy Dies First, Robin Means Coleman’s analysis of black representation in horror. And it got me thinking about analogies to ed...| The Ed Techie
I am at Achieving the Dream’s Dream 24 conference with a team from Clover Park Technical College in Orlando, Fl. I am interested in looking at highflex models from the instructional design perspective. These are my notes for colleagues – they are impressionistic and represent my own intrests as an instructional designer – your results may vary, contents may settle during shipping.| Brainstorm in Progress
There have long been calls for using evidence-based teaching techniques and technologies in the classroom to improve student success. For example the 2012 “Engage to Excel” report by the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) notes that “Classroom approaches…Read more ›| EdTechDev – Doug Holton
I updated an old handout I made for parents at the elementary school where my wife used to work: Tips & Tools for Family-Safe Usage of Devices. It has suggestions for parents to help monitor an…| EdTechDev - Doug Holton
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I expect we’ll see a lot of these types of posts so I apologise in advance for bandwagon jumping. For those outside the UK, there has been a recent TV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which has dramatised the Post Office scandal, where hundreds of sub postmasters were falsely accused (and convicted) of fraud because of a faulty accounting system that was rolled out in the 00s. The TV series has caused fresh outcry, actions and recriminations, and is probably one of the most important dra...| The Ed Techie
Nearly all successful modern companies employ some variation of a build-measure-learn feedback cycle. It’s a cycle that iterates as follows: you take an initial position on what your product should be and build it. Then, you measure your target audience’s response and interaction with the product. Then, you analyze your data measurements to figure out where your initial hypothesis was right or wrong and use the learnings from this analysis to inform that next iteration of the product. T...| The Gong Show
Click Here for the Audio Version of this Post Like the rest of the world, education has been deeply impacted by COVID-19. From the ways that we build classroom community to instructional practice …| Confessions of a Former Instructional Coach
Minecraft now includes Minecraft Education - the platform with use in 40 countries and over 10,000 schools. Discover what Minecraft Education is.| CodeMonkey