In Huntsville, Alabama, home to one of the nation's largest cybersecurity hubs, educators and industry professionals are rethinking what cybersecurity education can look like.…
Rather than separating classroom instruction from workplace experience…
At the Madison County Schools Career Technical Center, cybersecurity i…
Working alongside industry professionals, she is creating a classroom …
The “October Blues” Are Coming. Here’s How Teachers Can Beat Them.
It’s not uncommon for teachers to experience what Ellen Moir, founder of the New Teacher Center, calls a “disillusionment phase” shortly after the start of the school year.…
Other educators call this phenomenon by a different name — the “Octobe…
”The October Blues affect teachers who find themselves in an emotional…
When they do catch a case of the October Blues, they often find it har…
New York and Los Angeles Ban Student-Facing AI (For Now). Should Other Schools Follow?
Within the first three days of September, three announcements regarding young students’ access to generative artificial intelligence (AI) made national headlines.…
2, New York City announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing gen…
Later that day, Los Angeles Unified School District announced the impl…
The next day, the American Psychological Association (APA) released a …
This week, two educators trace what happened after a student said something that could have been dismissed as attitude but turned out to be something else entirely.…
One teacher heard it in the middle of a lesson on irony.
The other heard it in a planning meeting for a brand new program.
Neither could shake it, and both went looking for what it actually mea…
Stitching the Future: Technology as a Sacred Trust
In an era where artificial intelligence promises to archive human culture at the touch of a button, Indigenous communities face a vital question: Who has the right to own, shape, and digitize sacred knowledge?…
Long before AI became a headline in education, this question fundament…
But understanding how to protect our community’s digital future didn’t…
I grew up in a small rural village tucked into Wisconsin’s Driftless A…
Microsoft just released the third edition of its AI in Education Report, surveying more than 3,000 students, educators and leaders across six countries.…
Ira Apfel sat down with Pat Yongpradit, general manager of global educ…
Pat Yongpradit on Adoption, Trust and CheatingYongpradit walks through…
He addresses the recent drop in student optimism, framing it as a pred…
The Language Barrier Is the Real Barrier in Edtech
When I started looking closely at the learning platforms schools ask families to use, I noticed something easy to miss if it doesn’t affect you: almost all of them are built in English first.…
For families who speak Spanish at home, that one fact quietly changes …
A child might be able to follow along in class, but the parent often c…
The language barrier becomes an opportunity barrier.
Early Childhood Education Teachers Grapple with Screen Time
When the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its guidelines around screen time for children and teenagers for the first time in 10 years this past January, many teachers and educators applauded the news.…
The document focused less on television and more on digital devices.
It offered educators, families, pediatricians, and other stakeholders …
However, many of the recommendations were not tailored to specific age…
Artificial intelligence has wreaked havoc across secondary and higher education classrooms, leaving educators struggling to figure out how to create cheat-resistant assignments and assessments.…
While everyone is good at diagnosing the problem, no one seems to have…
So I designed a free tool to help teachers create uncheatable assessme…
The Cheat Vulnerability IndexBased on the concepts from my book, cours…