Technology accelerates student learning when skillfully implemented.  GUEST COLUMN | by Victoria Sanville WIDANALAGE EROSHANA YOMAL CHAMIKARA The right classroom technology is critical to success for educators and students alike across the US. In a post-COVID world, we rely even more now on technology to aid in information gathering, presentations, group work, remote learning, among other classroom activities. To best serve today’s students and make learning environments optimized for modern life, it’s crucial to design future-ready K-12 classrooms. To maximize educational benefits, sch ..read more

An essential life skill set in a digital environment.  GUEST COLUMN | by Apu Pavithran  MUHAMAD CHABIB ALWI As our lives move evermore online, the need for cybersecurity knowledge transcends the realm of experts and becomes an essential life skill. As such, empowering our future generations with the necessary tools and skills required to thrive in this new paradigm is paramount.  ‘…empowering our future generations with the necessary tools and skills required to thrive in this new paradigm is paramount.’ Earlier this year, North Dakota achieved a milestone by becoming the firs ..read more

The PowerLite® 810E Extreme Short Throw is Epson’s first 3LCD extreme short throw lamp-free laser display with 4K Enhancement Technology. It is designed to bring amazingly bright and massive 160 inches of display area to classrooms to make content pop for students no matter where they sit.  The 4K enhanced display brings stunning clarity to presentations and educational content and has many uses in the classroom, from featuring multiple screens at once to having students work collaboratively on large-scale, high-definition digital art projects. The compact and lightweight projector offer ..read more

Vivi is a unique all-in-one wireless screen sharing and digital signage tool, designed specifically for education to enhance communication, collaboration, and connectivity in the classroom and across campus. Teachers need technology that enhances their instruction rather than limiting it or isolating students. This cool tool provides reliable, easy, wireless screen sharing that helps students engage with content, allows them to share their screens, brings instructional tools into the platform and frees teachers to share from anywhere in the classroom. Students come into the classroom with new ..read more

Innovative solutions and forward-thinking strategies needed now more than ever.  GUEST COLUMN | by Nicole Engelbert NUTHAWUT SOMSUK In the landscape of higher education, navigating the turbulent waters of enrollment, financial aid, and technological evolution has become increasingly complex. As we venture further into 2024 and beyond, institutions are faced with a myriad of challenges including declining enrollment, financial aid disparities, and the rapid evolution of technology. All which demand innovative solutions and forward-thinking strategies.   Financial aid gaps will ..read more

One of the world’s largest and most vibrant standards-setting consortia, 1EdTech is a global community that has now surpassed the 1,000-member organization milestone, representing a more than 20-fold increase over the last 18 years. The organization, led by Rob Abel, Ed.D. CEO of 1EdTech President of the 1EdTech Foundation, recently released their online 1EdTech annual report for the year just passed (2023). “All of the 1EdTech member organizations can be very proud of the impact our community is having, made possible by unprecedented commitment, support, and engagement from market ..read more

So, what does the future of education really look like? GUEST COLUMN | by Ahsan Rizvi In the 1920s, Sidney Pressey built what might have been the first teaching machine—a machine that enables students to learn by themselves without any teacher involvement. It even had a candy dispenser! Even though the Pressey machine was built a century ago, its ideas persist: technological innovation has immense potential to support learning.  The Waves of Individualization  One common theme across every era of new technology is this idea of the individualization of education. Education has been ..read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword in today’s rapidly advancing technological landscape. But it’s more than just a word. This transformative technology is changing industries from healthcare to finance, and the educational sector is no exception. It’s worn out but true: it’s vital we prepare our students for the future they will graduate into. Studying and developing with AI helps foster critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities. Students learn to analyze data, identify patterns, and make data-driven decisions—essential skills in any field. In addition, knowledge of A ..read more

Students who say their instructors use regular low stakes assessments, collaboration, and discussion activities express a greater sense of belonging and increased confidence in their ability to graduate. When it comes to learning, and reducing achievement gaps for underrepresented students, active learning practices like these have long been the gold standard. Yet active learning remains the exception than the rule in most college classrooms.  That’s about to change with the launch of Ace, Top Hat’s cool new AI-powered teaching and learning assistant. Ace lets instructors instantly creat ..read more

Sizing up a promising asset—and a complex hurdle.  GUEST COLUMN | by Darren Bauer Kahan IMAM FATHONI Contemporary colleges and universities face increasing costs, unpredictable student enrollment, and evolving digital environments. In this context, generative AI is both a promising asset and a complex hurdle. The sentiment toward adopting this technology in educational settings is becoming more favorable, though issues such as plagiarism and maintaining academic standards remain of great concern. Nonetheless, educators and administrators have a shared agreement about the revolutionary i ..read more