The fourth annual K-12 IT Leadership Survey Report was recently released during CoSN’s (Consortium for School Networking) annual conference, revealing some of the main issues IT leaders are facing heading into 2016. “There is innovative change happening in our schools. But with this digital transformation is a new frontier of challenges confronting IT administrators,” said … Continue reading
A big challenge facing K-12 education today is ensuring that teacher evaluations evolve with available technology in an effective and productive way. In 2012, Miriam Greenberg and the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard piloted the Best Foot Forward Project to study the impact video could have on teacher evaluation. The project included evaluating … Continue reading
With help from a panel of experts comprised of IT and non-IT leaders, CIOs, and faculty members EDUCAUSE recently released a list of ten IT issues and strategic technologies that will have a major impact on higher education in 2016. The issues reflect three main themes: Divest — Higher education IT organizations are divesting locally … Continue reading
Continuing our coverage of the Flipped Classroom and the incredible opportunities it provides for educators and the resellers that support them, today we’d like to direct your attention to the latest issue of Tech & Learning. Tech & Learning is an education periodical that has been around for over 30 years, serving the K-12 education … Continue reading
Education is moving irreversibly towards personalized, tech-driven instruction models. One of the most compelling models to arise out of this trend is the flipped classroom model. Our dear friends at Techsmith define the flipped classroom as follows: A reversed teaching model that delivers instruction at home through interactive, teacher-created videos and moves “homework” to the … Continue reading
It’s no secret that social media is driving its way into classrooms. The following infographic from Scholastic sheds some light about teachers and social media. Who would have guessed that 65% of K-12 teachers upload videos, music, and photos for work? From Pinterest to Twitter to Facebook to YouTube, there’s a lot of useful tips and stats in … Continue reading
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