When you’re in the classroom, that’s where you want your mind to be. After all, it’s hard to focus on the students in…
Pathwright was created as a modern learning management system, LMS, that could work in education on all levels. Spawned from an idea back…
CoSN, The Consortium for School Networking recently released its annual 2026 Driving K–12 Innovation report, identifying the top “Hurdles” (challenges) schools must overcome, “Accelerators” (mega-trends)…
The longer the semester wears on, the harder it can be to focus on grading, planning, or other admin-centric tasks that don’t directly…
I’ve always been uncomfortable with the grading part of being a professor. As a student, I loved learning, particularly writing, but dreaded the…
Tomorrow’s teacher strike will be framed in familiar terms: pay, workload, burnout. Those are real pressures. But they are not the whole story.…
Most of today’s students have never known a world without technology, which significantly impacts their attention spans (“Digital Dementia: How Screens and Digital Devices Impact Memory” 2023). Microsoft…
Barrie Olson moves us beyond linear literacy instruction For decades, reading instruction in the US has been the subject of debate while student…
UNEXPECTED THOUGHTS Sometimes we see things that prompt thoughts that are entirely unexpected and often, apparently, have very little to do with what…
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I am busy, stressed, perhaps feeling the first prickles of burnout. I feel tension may be getting between me and my students, colleagues, family, and…
Nearly 80% of Australian adults support the government’s social media ban for children under 16, according to a new Monash University survey released…
Charles Sturt University researchers have identified a three-stage framework showing how intentional educator planning can drive the development of scientific literacy in young…
Targeted reading interventions can significantly improve outcomes for students in Years 4 to 12 who struggle with reading, according to a comprehensive global…
Students spend a lot of time on informative, or informational, writing (also called expository writing), especially as they get older. Research papers, biographies,…
Welcome to the January 2026 Edtech Show & Tell, in which our editors share some of the new edtech products that have caught…
It could be argued that the internet is the best possible medium for dictionaries. For one thing, there’s unlimited space for definitions, idioms,…
Gorka Bilbao Terreros argues that we need to look beyond the practical, career-focused benefits of world language education and stress the personal and…
This article was updated December 2025. Game-based learning turns potentially tedious study time into an adventurous knowledge quest, complete with catchy soundtracks and…