EdTech: The New Normal

Learn how different generations prefer to learn and discover how this information can improve your training programs. Understand the learning preferences of Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Gen Z. Find out what methods work best for each generation and how to tailor your training to meet their needs.

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Dive into how EdTech apps can revolutionize learning by offering personalized, cost-effective programs for students, teachers, and schools.

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Education leaders can now confirm edtech’s evidence basis and ESSA alignment

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How can you develop effective online learning for kids? Explore 6 tips that will help you create eLearning courses young learners will love.

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Today's students are "digital natives," but some of their basic tech skills still need improvement, educators say.

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Students to get more exposure to artificial intelligence, video games and computer science.

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Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement.

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Technology has gained a more important place in higher education, especially since the advent of the pandemic. However, thoughtful, meaningful use of the right technologies is critical to a student’s success.

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One of the hottest developments in education technology is schools banning technology.

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"Users will not appreciate sites which are difficult to navigate or visually overwhelming. Aesthetic design, imagery, and UX all contribute to sales and should never be overlooked due to budget constraints or deadlines."

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Survey finds significant increases in professors' confidence in virtual learning and their sense of support from their colleges -- but continuing concerns about equity for underrepresented students.

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"Only 54% of employees apply what they learned from training. Here’s how to get your employees to use their new skills and increase learning retention."

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85% of U.S. teens say they play video games. They see both positive and negative sides, from making friends to harassment and sleep loss.

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Creating smarter classrooms will equip students with the knowledge, skills, and capabilities required for the future.

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Read all about the history of education and learn how it changed from the traditional classroom to a virtual one.

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If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.

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"Rather than sitting, listening to somebody, drone away, giving information where the brain is doing very little — essentially just taking in sounds — it needs to be actively thinking about ideas, solving problems, figuring things out with feedback and guidance as it's practicing. That it's strengthening, essentially, through the right kind of mental exercise. And so that's really the different paradigm, is how do you exercise the brain in the right way to best develop new capabilities in it."

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The concept of “digital transformation” is one that’s been in the cultural zeitgeist for over a decade, as digital technologies such as cloud computing have quickly risen to prominence. Today, many organizations understand the importance of digital transformation. Pluralsight research shows that 85% of organizations are actively engaged in, or are planning to launch, a digital transformation project in 2023.

However, research from McKinsey shows that when organizations undertake a large-scale transformation, their efforts fail about 70% of the time.

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The teacher shortage is creating a troubling trend surrounding professional development

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Educational technology should no more be optional in a society where online natives are now putting their kids to school. I’ve spent the last four years working as an instructional coach, teaching instructors how to incorporate technology into their lessons. During that period, I discovered that for teachers to properly embrace digitalization in the classrooms, they must be backed by a society that fully welcomes educational technology. Here’s how we do it

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With fewer and fewer people sharing and collaborating on Twitter, LinkedIn updates becoming a hybrid between Facebook and Twitter chats, I’ve been relying on my Feedly news aggregator to bring me new content from blogs, feeds, EdTech and tech news sites, etc.

I still subscribe to some websites, but even those are publishing less and less, a trend that’s been growing over the last year or so.

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"UNESCO coined the term ‘OER‘ back in 2002 to describe an initiative intended to bring about educational resources that were universally accessible. Open Educational Resources are described as ‘learning, teaching, and research materials in any media, digital or otherwise, that belong to the public domain, or have been released under an open license permitting free access, use, and adaptation, as well as redistribution by others without restriction.’"

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University presidents spoke at a virtual conference and agreed that change is on the horizon for higher-ed institutions across the nation.

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Large ed tech companies are hugely expanding while smaller companies are running out of operating cash and laying off or furloughing.

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