Please note, this is writer’s opinion. By Charles Sosnik Whether you have kids in school, work for a school or simply watch the news, you know schools are dealing with a lot. They are going through a very difficult time, trying to modernize and keep up with the technological world around them. Schools are dealing ...

  By LeiLani Cauthen   When I was a young girl, we lived in an analog world. It was a different time. There was no Internet. No outside connectivity. Computers, such that they were, could be strung together in a network – but their capabilities were very basic. Research was done in a library. Teachers ...

  By Steve Halliwell and Cheryl Miller   Each fall, teachers will get a new sea of smiling faces in their classrooms. Almost no other industry operates under this unique business model, where each year your audience is replaced with a completely new one. And with that type of model in mind, it leads us ...

  By LeiLani Cauthen   New pre-released data from the Learning Counsel’s 2019 Survey indicates that 58 percent of schools now rate their highest pressure is their student’s social and emotional needs.  Alongside this information is the Learning Counsel’s new research that a whopping 27 percent of students nationally have left traditional public education for ...

  By Tamara Fyke   As an educator and parent, I feel I have been waging the war against screens for more than a decade.  In the classroom, even with adults, it’s a challenge to get learners to focus on what is happening in our space in the present moment; at home, it can be ...

By Paul Erickson and Paul Gigliotti A 2019 Common Sense survey found that only four out of every 10 teachers consider the professional development  that they received on the use of technology in the classroom to be effective. That statistic becomes even more concerning when you consider that a couple years ago, eSchool News cited a study in which almost ...

  By Mac Bogert Teleology is the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve, rather than the cause by which they arise.   I started sailing with my father when I was five. After realizing we weren’t going to die, I felt like we were flying and I wanted to know why: What’s ...

  By CHARLES SOSNIK   We tend to speak in extremes these days. When online shopping replaces storefront shopping, we call it a Retail Apocalypse. In reality, consumers are simply making choices about how they want to buy. Technology didn’t kill retail shopping. It made it better. You will still have storefront shopping, particularly for ...