2020 School Technology Budget Tips

  Between shrinking budgets and increasingly IT-dependent school systems, ...

10 Apps for Back to School

The new school year is upon us and I’m sure as an educator you are already in ...

How Effective is Your Ed Tech Program?

  You may have the most exciting ed tech program ready to go in your district. ...

TED-Ed as a Teaching Tool

  Sometimes teachers need additional tools in the classroom. Something to ...

6 Ways to Incorporate Coding into Your Classroom

Did you know there’s an annual, week-long learning event that 663 million ...

How Digital Resources Transform Teaching and Learning

Devices in the K-12 classroom are becoming as common as chalk and chalkboards ...

Four Cybersecurity Tips for Schools and Districts

  It’s October and while many think of Halloween and the start of Fall, it is ...

How Cameras Make School Buses Safer Than Ever

  Something happens on your school bus – a fight between students, or maybe a ...

Digital Tools for Preventing the Summer Slide

It’s the end of the school year, and as students get ready for fun and ...

[UPDATED] Top Educational Websites Your Students Actually Visit

There you have it, the top 10 educational websites students visit from 2018 ...

5 Tips for Teacher Tech Leaders

If there’s a front line in the ed tech revolution shaping school districts ...

Traditional vs. Digital: The Changing Educational Content Landscape

What once seemed like the most economical and practical learning tool—printed ...

Keeping Students Safe Online

There are 34.9 million students in the U.S. who have Internet access at school ...

How Does School Bus Wi-Fi Work?

Riding the school bus is the start, or completion, of a school day. And now, ...

Internet Access Makes College Applications Easier for All

Think of everything that goes into a college application. Transcripts. Personal ...

Ransomware: A Growing Threat in K-12

Education is currently the biggest target for ransomware attacks, preceding the ...

How OER Can Help Low-Income School Districts

Could three simple letters change the face of education in low-income school ...

Using Tech to Make Sure All Students Succeed

Children, as they say, are the future. Which is why for more than half a ...

Closing the Homework Gap in North Carolina

Five million households with school-age children do not have broadband access. ...

Engaging Parents to Encourage STEM for Young Learners

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) has been talked about in the ...

4 Tips for Keeping Student Data Private

Today’s students come to the classroom with more than just fascinating personal ...

Why Teach Your K-12 Students How to Code?

For decades, coding was seen as a rare, complicated skill that only few people ...

7 Can’t-Miss Chromebook Apps & Extensions

Chromebooks have taken the U.S. classroom by storm. According to market ...

How to Get the Most out of Ed Tech Data

With ed tech programs, devices and technologies proliferating around the ...

7 Ways to Improve Information Fluency

Fake news—who writes it, how it spreads—is on everyone’s mind lately. But it’s ...

Do Cell Phones Belong in Elementary Schools?

It’s hard to believe that, not long ago, cell phones were a rare sight. Now, ...

Tips for Creating a More Effective Pilot Program

With all the options available for bringing educational technology into the ...

4 Strategies for Teaching Digital Citizenship

Expanding digital access to all children at all ages benefits both educators ...

Grant Writing Made Easy

School districts face many challenges associated with identifying external ...

Off-Campus Learning Best Practices: Develop a Connectivity Plan

Now that you have your team in place, it’s time to start planning. Creating a ...

Off-Campus Learning Best Practices: Engage Parents

Securing parental approval and support for the technology in the home is ...

[INFOGRAPHIC] How to Improve Student Performance

When a student succeeds in school, success for one student may look differently ...

5 Powerful Ways for Schools to Market their Tech Programs

You can have the most exciting tech initiative out there. But if no one knows ...

Off-Campus Learning Best Practices: Identify the Team

Relationships and communication with cross-functional teams in your school ...

Don’t Like How You Communicate? Then Flip It

“The most dangerous phrase in the language is: We’ve always done it this way.” ...

10 Programs Tech-Savvy Districts Are Launching This Fall

3D printers. Virtual reality. Tele-teaching.

How Schools Can Shape Smart Digital Citizens

Your kids may be good students. But are they good digital citizens?

Establishing a Digital-Age Classroom with High & Low-Tech Tools

The First Push In October, I transferred to my current school. Within my first ...

Top 5 Apps for Struggling Learners

How to Engage Parents in Student Technology

Although it is ultimately the parent’s choice on whether or not to bring ...

Digital Equity: Assessing the Need in Your School

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5 Ways Technology Can Bridge Staffing Shortages or Budget Cuts

Do a Google search on “cash-strapped school districts,” and hundreds of ...

As Standardized Testing Moves Online, Access to Technology is Crucial

With standardized testing moving away from the fill-in-the-bubble tests of old ...

Addressing Educational Equity in Digital Age

CoSN (Consortium for School Networking) and the National Title I Association ...