Betsy Corcoran
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The Next Wave of Edtech Will Be Very, Very Big — and Global
Braced for the next wave of edtech? It will be big. As in global, corporate big. Combine that with some of the dislocations triggered by COVID and ... → Read More
Picking Your Future ‘Classroom’ Will Shape How Students Learn
What’s the most influential technology in education right now? Or, more to the point, what’s been the bedrock of education since, say, March 2020? ... → Read More
A Shockingly Simple Way to Improve Online School
When Nettie Johnson fired up her first online class for her fifth graders in Topeka, Kansas last March, she knew they were flying by the seat of their ... → Read More
Digital Promise Seeks Next CEO as Karen Cator Moves On
Karen Cator, one of education’s quiet but most effective innovators, is leaving Digital Promise. The nonprofit posted yesterday that it’s seeking a new ... → Read More
Underappreciated No More: A Free Edtech Platform Shines as Schools Go Remote
As countless educators around the world have scrambled to figure out how to deliver lessons remotely with whisker-thin budgets, many turned to open ... → Read More
How New York City, Oakland and Indianapolis Are Planning to Reopen Schools
Call it “blended,” “hybrid” or “split.” Students, families and teachers are gearing up for a new school year that will feature a mixture of at-home and ... → Read More
Yes, Low-Income Students Lose the Most When Learning Goes All Online
No one knows how much—or how little—students have been learning as U.S. families began “sheltering in place” in March. But data is starting to emerge ... → Read More
What to Do Right Now If You Are Looking for a Job in Edtech
The numbers are stark: After weeks of “sheltering in place,” U.S. unemployment has soared. A mid-March survey by HolonIQ, an education market research ... → Read More
How China’s Schools Are Getting Through COVID-19
The novel coronavirus swept across China around January 20, with the Chinese New Year celebration underway. By late March, as U.S. schools were just ... → Read More
Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?
The quiz seems deceptively easy: The past decade has seen literally hundreds of technologies and ideas emerge, many aimed at engaging or involving K-12 ... → Read More
‘Back to School’ Hijinks and Lessons for the Education Industry
About 1,200 adults in uniform went “Back to School” yesterday. No, not to their wooden desks, blue books and plastic seats. But to BMO’s annual ... → Read More
Teaching Cybersecurity? Have Your Students Hit the ‘Range’
Practice makes perfect—or, at the very least, a better defense. And that’s just part of what Virginia Tech is now offering to those studying ... → Read More
What It Means to Have ‘Impact’ in Education
The wall next to the door in EdSurge’s Burlingame, Calif., office is covered with scraps of paper. Some are printouts of emails; others handwritten ... → Read More
Maker Media Has Shut Down. But Founder Dale Dougherty Isn’t Calling It Quits.
Of all the learning trends of the past 20 years, one of the most sweeping and impactful has been the rise of the maker movement. And that means that ... → Read More
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 10 Leadership Lessons from the White House
Inviting Doris Kearns Goodwin to speak to a gathering of thousands of educators brought together by the annual ASCD Empower19 conference might have ... → Read More
What’s at the Core of the University Admissions Scandal
“The Rise Fund is committed to achieving social and environmental impact alongside competitive financial returns.”Yes, the founder of the Rise Fund may ... → Read More
How Much Artificial Intelligence Should There Be in the Classroom?
We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. But should we? And if the answer is yes, what’s the right mix of human and machine in ... → Read More
How to Move From Digital Substitution to ‘Deeper Learning’
Replacing VHS tapes with YouTube clips is probably not the ideal version of moving a classroom into the 21st century.While that type of digital ... → Read More
How Can School Leaders Personalize Learning? New Book Offers a Guide.
Personalized learning has been an education buzzword for several years. A recent survey by the State Educational Technology Directors Association ... → Read More
How Google’s Former China Chief Thinks AI Will Reshape Teaching
Artificial intelligence promises to have a dramatic—and yes, disruptive—effect on U.S. education and jobs in the next decade. But that technology won’t ... → Read More