Seemingly legitimate Apple charging cables can be infected with malware that can remotely, and quietly, hijack mobile devices and computers when connected. Buy a stockpile of real Apple wires, and keep them in your briefcase, purse, backpack, car, etc.

Despite the seemingly ever-growing embrace of digital learning in schools, access to the necessary devices remains unequal, with a new report from the Pew Research Center finding that 15 percent of U.S. households with school-age children lack high-speed internet at home.

This year’s keynote speakers demonstrate bold thinking around some of the most critical education topics, including the learning sciences, digital creation and equity

Google Forms has long been a go-to tool for teachers to create surveys and give quizzes online. Today, Google announced six new features that are going to make Google Forms better than ever.

When considering the unique challenges and opportunities in the virtual educational construct there can be nothing but profound implications for how we teach and how students learn.

Just in case you don't fully appreciate just how many different ways your iPhone and your Mac can seamlessly work together...

The people who succeed in EdTech are those who understand education and care about it deeply...and nobody fits that description better than a teacher. | #edtech #K12 |

Researchers say various types of play teach children important concepts relating to STEM: science, technology, engineering, and math.

Grading can be difficult, especially for new teachers, writes second-year teacher Andrea Marshbank. In this blog post, she offers seven grading suggestions, including not assigning busywork, involving students in grading and using technology wisely.

In recent years, new roles have begun to crop up in schools including advocates who support the social side of students’ lives. These emerging roles vary; however, they aim to overcome the enduring structural barriers that separate social supports and academics in our traditional system. These new roles involve coordinating additional student services inside of school and connecting students to more opportunities beyond schools.

By the time they get to high school, students can likely list half a dozen times they’ve created an “All About Me” collage, showing family or cultural backgrounds, as a way for classmates and teachers to get to know one another. But with a different framing and a more structured approach, these types of projects can have a significant personal impact.

Unless you've mastered these operational fundamentals, your organization will always be vulnerable to the competition.

At launch, this new image search engine includes more than 300 million images indexed from multiple collections, the organization says.

There are two types of mindsets we can cultivate: one that embraces problems as opportunities to learn and one that avoids them, often out of fear to fail. With a growth mindset, people believe that new abilities can be developed through practice; this view can create a love for learning.

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Thinking in the 21st century is just different.

How do you set yourself up for a smooth downhill start on the next day’s targets for progress? #productivity

The TeacherCast Educational Network examines how digital portfolio methods look, feel, and more importantly, details pros and cons in both the school and personal settings.

A Pennsylvania state representative wants to fine parents if their children get caught bullying others at school. The proposed bill gives parents three strikes, after which parents could receive a court citation, pay a fine of up to $500 and/or perform community service. | #education #HIB #K12

School chiefs have not done enough to take advantage of the flexibility offered under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said during the Council of Chief State School Officers legislative conference. "ESSA was enacted partially in response to the widespread calls from state school chiefs -- including many in this room -- to give you the flexibility and opportunity to address your state's unique challenges," she said.

It isn’t hard to imagine an ideal world in which all student data flows seamlessly and securely between software applications: a concept known as data interoperability.

K-12 education has been "data-driven" for years: data-driven to nowhere. However, thanks to new technologies, the effective use of real-time data can give educators tremendous insight into student learning and growth to allow the creation a truly personalized learning experience for every student. 

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