As technology improves, educational sites are evolving from digital brochures to marketing tools and communication hubs that feel familiar enough to make the entire community feel welcome. By Ali Arsan Back in the mid-1990s, connecting online was not easy. As a student, my classmates and I decided to build a website for our school and ...

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. By Kenna McHugh   Jay Goyal, the CEO and Co-Founder of Actively Learn, began his journey to EdTech after graduating from Duke University with a B.S. in Economics. He worked in business development before ...

  By Ryan L. Schaaf   Today’s Kids Learn Differently In the previous article, Learning for the Always-On Generation (Part 1), readers were introduced to the observation that today’s kids are different. They talk differently, play differently, communicate differently, and most importantly, they learn differently than previous generations. Thanks in large part to digital bombardment, the ...

  By Jamie Bricker   Targeted teaching is all about setting students up for success.  Rather than hoping a certain topic hits the mark, it provides a progressive framework to ensure chosen tasks are purposeful, practical, and personal for the given learner. Progressing inwards from the outermost ring represents the powerful, and all important, evolution ...

  By Samuel Alfie   Ocean’s 13 is more than just a heist movie in a casino. It showed how using a high-tech artificial intelligence system precisely predicts the genuineness of a player’s win, by analyzing factors like – surprise, shock, hysteria, reaction, and change in the heart rate. These factors helped Al Pacino, the ...

  By Jacqueline Gordon   As we continue our research with principals into their experiences with the growing teacher shortage, I am somewhat surprised at the numbers that are still interviewing to fill open positions.    Having worked with and observed numerous schools/districts over the last 10 years, the reasons why are both simple and ...

  By Lori Jackson and Steve Peck   Schools have a core mission to develop students who have the all-around skills and knowledge to succeed in life. Regardless of the name we give these skills―grit, growth mindset, or social-emotional skills―these are the abilities that form the foundation for learning to take place.  The question for ...

  By Anna Iarotska   The rampant digitalization of our society has touched and fundamentally altered all domains of our lives, including education. What was once enough to prepare pupils for their adult life is no longer sufficient, and we urgently need to implement the new developments we see around us into school curricula. One ...