Offering professional learning to educators as though they were students does not work for teachers—or students, says Eujon Anderson, a featured FETC 2020 speaker and the technology director for Troy City Schools in Alabama.
Wake County CTO Marlo Gaddis, a featured speaker at FETC 2020, says that changing a district's technology culture requires creating a vision, understanding your resources and using a balanced approach.
Young people from low-income families face yet another developmental gap. Researchers have found that, as with technology, wealthier students have greater access to organized youth sports than do less affluent children.
At the recent International Society for Technology in Education conference, special education teacher and edtech consultant Katie Nieves Licwinko shared these five apps to reduce online distractions at school.
Many district leaders have over the last few years implemented mental health screening for all students. Many administrators have also begun to train teachers and staff in mental health first aid techniques that enable educators to spot early warning signs of a student in distress and provide immediate assistance.
The start of the new school year has seen a spike in cyberattacks against districts across the country, with small districts emerging as an especially attractive ransomware target by hackers.
Research by has found that more than a third of water polo players say they've suffered a concussion. Goalies are most likely to get hit, with half reporting head trauma.
The specter of censorship arose again earlier this year when a California high school newspaper editor wrote about an 18-year-old student who was making online sex videos.
