By Katherine Prince Editor’s note: This is part one in a three-part series. Between the breakneck speed of technology’s advance and tectonic shifts in the job market, educators and learners can feel overwhelmed. But these and other changes are upon us and are likely to accelerate. That’s why KnowledgeWorks, a national education nonprofit, has followed up ...

  By Charles Sosnik   It hardly even registers anymore. Google and YouTube agreed to pay $170 Million for violating child privacy rights. There was a time when that might have meant something. But news of tech companies breaking laws and paying massive fines really have no meaning. Or at least, no consequences. A couple ...

  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 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 ...

  By Ryan L. Schaaf   It is truly astounding how people can embrace doing things the way they have always been done without contemplating where and when the original decisions were made. We just accept a pre-existing mindset because it is the path of least resistance. President Woodrow Wilson said it best, “If you ...

  By Vinod Lobo   The task of earning a diploma is particularly difficult for adults with low literacy skills, known as low-literate adults. More than 30 million adults cannot read, write, or have math skills above a third-grade level in the United States. Being aware of where they are starting from, it’s difficult for ...

  By Tamara Fyke   In our world today, we understand the needs of the whole child include social-emotional learning, and we also know that technology is a ubiquitous, essential, and powerful part of education. So, we must ask ourselves this necessary question: How can SEL and EdTech work together to benefit students? In order ...