Game-based learning may take various forms—purposeful play in the classroom, game-like approaches to curriculum design, even school-sponsored esports competitions. Whatever it looks like on the surface, introducing games to the educational arena has the power to create deep connections to the classroom and forge learning habits that endure throughout one's life. In the stories featured below—with more to come in the weeks ahead—we explore how game-based pedagogy has taken shape in schools . . .

The learning process is as varied and complex as the many minds that make up a K-12 classroom. Unpacking the science behind how learners acquire knowledge can go a long way toward helping educators refine their instructional strategies to motivate the best possible learning outcomes. ISTE's Course of Mind initiative shares key principles of the learning sciences with educators, aiming to improve the ways in which they find, select and implement learning technologies in their schools and modify

We help our students attain both their educational needs and their professional needs,” says Chelsea Graham, Data and Assessment Coordinator for Central Arizona College’s Adult Basic Education program. “Our program is not just focused on getting the GED; it’s about taking students to the next level.” This gets directly to the heart of her team’s work.

When COVID-19 forced the mass closure of schools across the U.S. during the early months of 2020, we all wondered how—or if—students would continue to learn amid the turbulence. Seemingly overnight, educators, parents and edtech companies churned out crisis plans for remote instruction in hopes of carrying on, at the very least, until summer break.

“It should be fun to work with artificial intelligence tools,” says Nancye Blair Black, Project Lead for AI Explorations and Their Practical Use in School Environments. It’s a simple credo but one that belies both a deep passion for computational thinking and an urgent desire to see this project succeed in its primary objective: to cultivate a broad and diverse group of future AI users and developers. Black sees endless opportunities to introduce AI across the curriculum to students of all ages...

Imagine a world in which a teacher begins the school year with a comprehensive personal profile of each student in her class—a report that incorporates insights on academic performance, social-emotional development, behavior, attendance and a host of related data. Without having to conduct numerous assessments and informal interviews throughout the opening weeks, she can actually “know” her students before they arrive in her classroom and meet them where they are on day one. This is the promise of interoperability...

Observing the often lofty predictions made on the future of work, one envisions a far-fetched and distant sci-fi Utopia in which humans live harmoniously alongside intelligent automatons to finally realize the peak potential of civilization. But this scenario is hardly science fiction; as it turns out, that future is here and now.

We hear a lot about branding these days, mostly in the form of tips to help companies fashion a public persona. But what can you learn from the corporate world’s attempts to humanize itself? More to the point, how can you leverage that into creating an authentic personal brand?

How do you attract your ideal candidate if that person isn’t actively searching for employment? A candidate can become an applicant at any moment, so you need to be ready when that happens. In fact, if you’re doing your job well, you may actually cause it to happen.

They say first impressions are the most lasting. But don’t underestimate the sticking power of your second or third impression either; follow-through and follow-up are just as important as that introductory handshake. And of course, there’s plenty of work that goes into preparing for the one big moment that sets everything else in motion. So, let’s take it step by step to make sure you’re ready to shine at your next edtech networking event.