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STELive23 was back in full swing in Philadelphia this year with hundreds of sessions and exhibitors enjoying the learning and networking--despite the rainy weather. The exhibit hall was energetic and [...]

The science of learning can be implemented at the classroom, school, or district level, says Margaret (Meg) Lee, Director of Organizational Development for Frederick County Public Schools in Maryland. The [...]

Many AI tools available for education are often slightly modified versions of Chat-GPT. These tend to have the same chatbot interface as well as many of the common strengths and [...]

During the pandemic Jan Plass learned firsthand how nuanced the discussion around kids and screen time has to be. At one point, he became upset with his teenage children about [...]

Over my years of teaching, I've come across department-mandated practices that have been debunked as ineffective, and have seen things I did in my own teaching that were unlikely to [...]

Teachers have gotten used to seeing AI-generated essays and other written work. So It's no surprise many of those of us who teach, particularly those of us who teach English [...]

I don't think I'm alone when I say, I'm tired of reading AI papers. I'm an adjunct college writing professor and teach online, and the prevalence of AI papers I [...]

Gamification has become a popular educational approach, having demonstrated solid potential as a learning tool. However, it's not always clear exactly which gamified elements are helping, and in some instances, [...]

Joshua R. Eyler gives the U.S. grading system an 'F' in his new book Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, And What We Can Do About It. In it, [...]

As schools get ready for the 2022-23 school year, Tech & Learning's Awards of Excellence program, 'The Best Tools for Back to School' is designed to help our readers find [...]

Tech & Learning's Best of Show Awards at ISTELive 22 celebrate the products, and businesses behind each one, who are transforming education in schools around the world. Tech & Learning's [...]

Educators and school leaders will get two conventions for the price of one next year when ISTELive and the ASCD Annual conference join forces in San Antonio, Texas, from June [...]

On the surface, generative AI technology--with its potential to supercharge individualized learning--lends itself well to the flipped learning model of teaching, say both Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams, co-authors of [...]

The threat of students using a photo of classmates to create AI-generated deepfakes of them engaged in pornographic acts is no longer hypothetical--nor are other potential disruptive uses of AI [...]

Educator and edtech expert Alana Winnick never considered herself much of a writer. Even so, she was able to write The Generative Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Education [...]

Daniel T. Willingham ends every email he sends with two lines describing both what he is currently reading and his thoughts on the book he last read. These brief details [...]

During the recent Tech & Learning Northeast Regional Leadership Summit at the stunning STEM Center of Kean University in New Jersey, educators came together in a relaxed, face-to-face setting to [...]

Since ChatGPT launched in late 2022, there have been many headlines about AI in education. But with all that attention, there hasn't been enough focus on some of the amazing [...]

The use of telepresence robots in education might seem new or science fiction-like to some but Dr. Lori Aden has been helping to facilitate students and their telepresence robots for [...]

Quiet quitting is a viral term with a meaning that's open to interpretation. Some say it entails mentally checking out from your job and doing just the bare minimum to [...]

Over last summer, I began seeing the first suspected cases of AI use in the introductory college writing courses that I teach online. Since then, AI-generated essays have become a [...]

Pretesting, an education strategy in which teachers provide no-stakes quizzes to students before they've learned a topic, is earning high marks in cognitive research. During one study, a group of [...]

The U.S. Department of Education has released a new national education technology plan for the first time since 2016. 'The office of Ed Tech, working with other organizations, brought together [...]

Technology in the classroom is part of our everyday world and, as part of that, we must ensure that all students have access to the devices and the content they [...]

Just like making annual resolutions, we cast our vision ahead at this time of year to ponder what may come our way over the next 12 months. And in the [...]

Top current trends in edtech include an increased focus on digital pedagogy, post-pandemic learning acceleration, and interoperability, say Richard E. Culatta and Joseph South. Culatta is CEO and South is [...]

Daniel T. Willingham ends every email he sends with two lines describing both what he is currently reading and his thoughts on the book he last read. These brief details [...]

A group of leading virtual and extended reality (XR) educators have authored a report on the metaverse--a network of interconnected 3D virtual worlds that may be the next evolution of [...]

Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and Amy McLaughlin, CoSN s cybersecurity subject matter expert, recently shared tips for school leaders around cybersecurity in advance of [...]

Saline Area Schools in Michigan recently updated safety alerts district-wide to ensure important announcements about school lockdowns or tornado warnings, which are common in the region, are effectively communicated to [...]

Boosting student agency is at the heart of Dr. Krista Herreras focus as an educator. 'I really believe it's our job to help prepare students to advocate for themselves and [...]

Over the summer it finally happened to me: While reading a student essay in an introductory online college course at one of the universities at which I teach, I began [...]

In many ways, the rise of AI reminds Lance Key of the debut of Google in 1998 when many educators were worried that students would turn to Google for easy [...]

The realities of pandemic teaching have made the concept of a flipped classroom and flipped learning more appealing than ever before for many educators. 'The entire conversation has changed in [...]

Esports can provide students with an educational experience that goes well beyond gaming. 'Everything I do today I owe to getting involved in esports' said Kathy Chiang, assistant director of [...]

The gap between science fiction and the classroom is closing before our eyes and something like the future I read about as a science fiction-obsessed kid in the 90s is [...]

Anew meta-analysis looking at reading vs. listening to text either via an audiobook or other method has found no significant difference in comprehension outcomes. The study was recently published in [...]

Before teaching a VR lesson or an AR lesson, there are some questions teachers should ask themselves, says Jaime Donally, an immersive learning expert. Donally is a former math teacher [...]

Even in the age of streaming video and interactive learning apps, reading matters. That's one of the key takeaways in a new study that found a small, but significant, association [...]

The David Douglas School District in Oregon is making DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) a key part of its identity going forward. The district has formed an equity team in [...]

In application developed by The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has been helping to close the equity gap by utilizing cutting-edge broadcast TV technology to allow students to receive and [...]

Creating short and engaging video lectures for students is a growing trend at education institutions. To encourage a more professional type of evergreen video resource, Indiana University has invested in [...]

Students are constantly using technology and that can create some physical strain. Here are strategies for limiting that discomfort with better edtech ergonomics. Edtech ergonomics should be a bigger part [...]

There is nothing quite like on-the-job training, which is why many schools have launched student tech teams that allow young IT enthusiasts work alongside district IT professionals. These student tech [...]

Teaching students STEM early in their lives can help establish a lifelong connection between the student and scientific understanding and exploration that is at the heart of STEM, say advocates [...]

Despite ongoing efforts to offer more computer science class options in K-12 public schools across the country, a new report found that significant disparities still exist in who has access [...]

Aidar Abdullins interest in mentoring students in international esports has little to do with, well, gaming. 'I'm not a gamer myself,' says the elementary school teacher at the Al-Bayan Bilingual [...]

The digital divide and homework gap persist despite intense efforts from schools, districts, and municipalities across the country to close these since the start of the pandemic. Approximately 16 million [...]

Despite a very vocal minority, the vast majority of the U.S. believes that teachers have done a great job during the pandemic, says Justin Reich, director of the MIT Teaching [...]

Webinars have become more common and better attended since March 2020. Even as class activities have returned to normal, the online workshops remain a great way to teach school staff [...]