eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

In this exclusive interview with eSchool, Richard reveals significant changes coming to the conference that signal a major shift in how educational technology events operate, as well as the multitude of other intangibles at play in the world of edtech.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

This was the South Florida Showdown , the first Minecraft Education tri-district esports challenge of its kind. These essential, durable skills are at the heart of frameworks like ISTE’s Standards for Students and the Partnership for 21st Century Learning’s framework , which emphasize what students need to thrive in school and beyond.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Henderson previously worked for the Utah Department of Education, where she noted that math is the biggest stumbling block for students trying to get a high school diploma. Its about time that schools dragged math into the modern world, so that it imparts useful skills, Henderson says. Adding applied math courses is also on the agenda.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Taking Chances in the Spotlight’ Research shows that students who practice social-emotional skills in safe environments with well-defined goals have improved social behavior, emotional regulation and academic performance. “We We have clinical psychologists who go through all the improv exercises,” Gethard said.

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k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

This fundamental truth about human cognition has finally found its perfect technological match in the form of microlearning. As we witness the rapid evolution of educational technology, the convergence of bite-sized learning modules with intelligent virtual tutors is creating unprecedented opportunities for personalised education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Meeting the Growing Demand for CS Skills Alexis Johnson First Grade Teacher, Canyons School District Computing and technology shape how we communicate, work and learn. Yet the seamless functioning of these tasks relies on a skilled computer science workforce. Educators recognize the need to cultivate these skills.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2025

For many counselors, the prevalence of children using social media to self-diagnose suggests a larger problem related to lasting social and emotional impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, unregulated virtual spaces and the importance of teaching media literacy skills. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the U.K.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Teens in the survey were also concerned about how using AI might affect their ability to develop critical thinking skills, says Jennifer Rubin, a senior researcher at foundry10 who helped lead the study. I think a lot of the teachers and parents don’t know, either.” It may be that everyone is working at a reduced capacity.”

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. It has to be AA rated or we don’t buy it.”

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

O’Sullivan (2025) suggests a “U-shaped learning” model for teaching across fields, focusing on two main skills: blending knowledge and putting it to work. Teachers must be skilled guides, steering talks, handling conflicts, and helping students find common ground. Yang et al. Yang et al. Yang et al.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

A follow-up study in 2025 confirmed this trend, highlighting even steeper declines where secondary students have fewer opportunities to build new skills. This isn’t just an education issue — it’s a workforce one. Creativity now ranks among the top skills employers seek , alongside analytical thinking and AI literacy.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. One such game is called Decimal Point.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” It really showed me the benefit of technology. That kind of turned the knob in my head to make me see the possibilities of education technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

School shouldn’t just be a place to learn academic skills, but a place for students to practice making meaningful decisions about their learning and lives. By asking these questions, we instill the importance of decision-making skills in students and a sense of responsibility for their learning that traditional school models otherwise lack.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

O’Sullivan (2025) suggests a “U-shaped learning” model for teaching across fields, focusing on two main skills: blending knowledge and putting it to work. Teachers must be skilled guides, steering talks, handling conflicts, and helping students find common ground. Yang et al. Yang et al. Yang et al.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2025

Being a Title 1 school means some of our families face barriers in technology access, time and academic resources for students. This story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

When I first got into education, I wanted to be there emotionally for young people. Now I realize it is not only about being there for them, but about passing on the skills I have gained to live with my neurodivergence. My teachers and administrators understand that this is imperative to the work that I do in creating systemic change.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

Core5 accelerates the foundational and advanced literacy skills for all students—from at-risk to on-level and advanced—in elementary grades. By empowering educators with unparalleled ease of use and the knowledge and tools they need, Lexia helps more students unlock their potential to read, write, and speak with confidence.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2025

As technology reshapes the workforce, digital and AI literacies are becoming essential for every student. From early problem-solving to advanced AI skills, learners build critical thinking, ethical technology use and career-ready competencies — block by block.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

When they are unable to generate exactly what they need, they edit those images with traditional editing software or more recently, software with generative AI editing abilities such as Adobe firefly which allows users to select specific areas of an image and use generative fill to brainstorm and edit it without advanced technical skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Not all online platforms deliver quality education, and the lack of face-to-face interaction can hinder social development and collaborative skills. Moreover, issues like digital dividewhere not all students have equal access to technologyraise concerns about equity in education.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Earlier this year, I administered a survey to my students, asking them to evaluate my classroom management skills and provide feedback on our classroom. Instead of assuming this was the case for my classroom, I did what any unsure teacher does and asked my students directly.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

When they are unable to generate exactly what they need, they edit those images with traditional editing software or more recently, software with generative AI editing abilities such as Adobe firefly which allows users to select specific areas of an image and use “generative fill” to brainstorm and edit it without advanced technical skills.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

These arent just add-on skills; theyre essential capabilities for every student, no matter their career goals. Empowering Students Through Career Exploration One of the most exciting shifts in CTE is the growing emphasis on exploration, especially in middle school.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2025

Recruiting websites were launched specifically focused on federal workers and their skill sets. The potential to attract new educators seemed high. Job fairs were scheduled. And programs for alternative credentialing for teachers, while existing long before the mass federal layoffs, ramped up.

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JULY 24, 2025

I’m not taking away the personal part, and I’m still using my tried-and-true counseling techniques and skills and enhancing what's already in mind with it,” Nelson, a school counselor in North Carolina, says. And keep a real strong eye out for error and bias.” Honestly, just use ChatGPT at that point,” she adds.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2025

What we’re trying to do is deliver skill-building in an interactive way that helps them navigate daily challenges,” says Elsa Friis, a licensed psychologist and head of product and clinical at Alongside, a company with a proprietary AI chatbot app.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

Strong math skills open doors to higher earnings, to college opportunities and to the fastest-growing careers in our nation, she says. Instead, districts need to approach these with a deep understanding of what’s happening in teacher preparation programs, in a way that provides ongoing support for teachers in actually using these materials.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

Lundeen says kindergarten teachers specifically notice the difference in social and emotional skills in those who have attended transitional kindergarten versus not, with children being able to more easily solve problems, work with peers and sit quietly during story time.

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GovTech

JULY 1, 2025

In a Q&A before the International Society for Education Technology conference this week, Richard Culatta said the next phase of AI education may involve teaching "life skills" students will need in order to thrive.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

There's a lot of catch up happening, so they're working on building all those [student] academic skills and the social-emotional pieces, and it's just a lot to come back from after the pandemic.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

As educators and industry leaders, we must ask: What do students and their teachers need to prepare for a future that is still unfolding? How can we ensure that all students develop the computing skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven workforce?

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

And when I played it for somebody who is highly experienced and knows this field has been in technology for education technology for decades, but just didn’t know this particular thing to to blown away, people are blown away by this and. What sounded exactly like a podcast of two people discussing that report.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

Being part of this network helps us integrate cutting-edge AI tools and practices into classrooms, fostering critical thinking, creativity and real-world problem-solving skills to prepare our scholars for a technology-driven world. Ypsilanti Community Schools students, educators and community members engage in hands-on AI learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

In order to help make the framework informative and actionable, the district partnered with the ISTE research team in 2025 to develop a diagnostic assessment tool that measures student AI readiness across select skills outlined in the framework.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

Reading restrictions could impair their critical thinking skills and what they learn about different communities. The lawsuit, which names DoDEA Director Beth Schiavino-Narvaez and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as defendants, argues that it harms students to prevent them from accessing books and lessons about important social issues.

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