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Amazon Future Engineer is working with Georgia Tech and Pharrell Williams' nonprofit YELLOW in a new K-12 competition intended to push students to understand how music, computer science and entrepreneurship can be tools used to advance equity.
12/07/2021
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CodeWizardsHQ, a leading online coding school for kids ages 8–18, is celebrating Computer Science Education Week by offering a special introductory class for kids that also benefits their schools’ parent-teacher organizations.
12/07/2021
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The Online Learning Consortium has announced its Innovate 2022 Conference, a joint conference presented by OLC and MERLOT, will be held virtually March 28 – April 1, 2022, and onsite in Dallas, April 11–14, where thousands of educators and innovators are invited to help shape the future of online, digital, and blended learning.
12/07/2021
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Educators have about a month left to submit inquiries for a program that awards grants for innovative music programs of up to $10,000.
12/06/2021
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Deadlines are nearing for 15 awards and grants from the National Science Teacher Association for K–12 teachers and students in the sciences. There are 14 teacher awards open for applications/nominations and one award open to female students in grades 5–8. The deadlines for most are Dec. 15, 2021, with the remaining deadlines being December 17.
12/06/2021
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The application window is now open for the 2022 Association of American Educators Foundation Classroom Grant. The program will award multiple $500 grant to classroom educators to be used for supplies, software, lab materials, AV equipment, books and other materials.
12/06/2021
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Although many schools have some safeguards in place to monitor what students are doing on their devices, there are some activities that often fall through the cracks which can disrupt learning.
12/02/2021
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The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has gone public with its new standards for educators who are preparing to teach English language arts (ELA) in grades 7–12. Those standards, approved in July, include understanding how students learn from digital media.
12/02/2021
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Collaborative lessons help teachers accelerate learning for all students in math, literacy, and SEL.
12/01/2021
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A team of education specialists at UNICEF, the children's representative at the United Nations, is making a big push for measures that can help kids get back to school globally.
12/01/2021
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A new report from the U.S. Department of Education has suggested that there's a "unique opportunity" right now to rethink the mental health help provided by schools and programs by dedicating a portion of relief funding to a dramatic expansion of social workers, school counselors, school nurses, and school psychologists available to support students.
11/30/2021
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A company that produces network and cloud-based technology for K-12 has enhanced its classroom management product. NetSupport, which develops classroom.cloud, said the newest release gives greater control to teachers over certain device components and offers additional safety features.
11/30/2021
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The awards honor the outstanding product development achievements of manufacturers and suppliers whose products or services are considered to be particularly noteworthy in the transformation of education technology.
11/30/2021
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Three in five respondents said they had a high level of confidence in the privacy and security of the data stored in their cloud applications.
11/18/2021
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As you seek out software and services to augment online and blended instruction this year, start here.
11/18/2021
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A new STEM teaching brief offers guidance on dismantling institutional and system racism in the K-12 science classroom. Published by the Institute for Science + Math Education at the University of Washington College of Education, the short report pointed out that teachers play a big role in changing the "racist legacies of STEM and schooling," through a combination of "examining [their] own prejudices" and embedding racial justice into their instructional practices.
11/17/2021
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Data analytics company SAS and education technology company Sphero are working together to bring data analytics and robot coding — along with soft skills — to students with visual impairments.
11/17/2021
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Library provider Gale is partnering with IMAGO, another education technology company, to distribute a set of online services for K-12. Gale Presents: IMAGO, as it's called, provides video-based social and emotional learning (SEL) and career readiness. The curriculum is intended to be used with students in grades 5-12.
11/17/2021