EdTech: The New Normal

Recession hiring boosts teacher quality and student learning

It's time to dust off the cobwebs, open up the candy corn, and let’s get our BOO on with some activities and breakouts for you and your students.

Before you get rid of the phone, laptop, or camera you just replaced, think about giving it a new purpose.

A few weeks back, The Exchange looked into the pace of edtech exits, noting that over time, the sector has delivered rising exit volume. All startup verticals want to demonstrate a history of liquidity, so you might imagine that even before the COVID-19 pandemic, edtech fundraising was rising due to its improving exit profile. The […]

A surge in worldwide demand for low-cost laptops has created shipment delays and pitted desperate schools against one another.

These are our in-depth best practices for keeping yourself (and just about everything else) clean and Covid-19 free.

A brutally unexpected year turned millions of people into gear nerds, whether they liked it or not.

Dr. Rodney Cajimat, a Biology professor from Nueva Vizcaya State University tried a different teaching approach for students who can’t have a stable internet connection.

During the past six months, it's become clear that what this universal, public system actually guarantees is a lot less than we imagined.

In the early days, we furiously scrubbed, afraid we could get sick from the virus lingering on objects and surfaces. What do we know now?

Kids Hack the Crisis 23–25 OctoberOnline (join from anywhere) The Spark: This is the track for initial idea submission. It allows for input from anyone within the target age group (10–18 years old). You can submit one or several ideas to the hackathon. Submitted ideas will be elevated to both the Ideation track and Implementation […]

The more of them we encounter, the more we begin to interpret the world according to their logic.

Learn from Dr. Doug Fisher and Dr. Nancy Frey's research into what works best when distance teaching to effectively engage all of your students.

Digital learning has a long history, but take-up in schools and colleges has been erratic; the coronavirus may have changed all that.

Armed conflicts, forced displacement, climate change induced disasters and protracted crises have disrupted the education of 75 million children and youth globally. And that number is growing in an unprecedented way with the spread of COVID-19.  Education has been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic with 1.52 billion learners out of school and 168 country-wide school closures, impacting 87.1% of the world’s total enrolled learners. Drop-out rates across the globe are likely to rise as a result of this massive disruption to education access.

Halloween is definitely going to be different this year, but even though you’re probably not going to costume parties, haunted houses, or serving up a truck-ton of candy to trick-or-treaters like always, it doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice the time honored tradition of scaring the bejesus out of yourself. We rounded up 10 of …

Zoom is unveiling new UCaaS platform enhancements that are designed to provide more immersive, secure & collaborative experiences. Learn more.

Some examples of how the world of education has responded to the pandemic.