(ET) Magazine
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 4
Magazine Contents
– The Greatest Minds in the World of EdTech By Charles Sosnik
– The Purpose of Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence By Garrett Smiley
– The EdTech Problems of Tomorrow are being Solved TODAY By Angelo Biasi
– A Lightbulb Moment:The Shift from Just Learning about Science to Figuring Out Phenomena By Ted Willard
– It’s Time to Break the Myth of the “Math Person” By By Jamie Candee
– The Story Behind the World’s First Free Kid-Friendly Streaming Service By Jonathan Kendrick
– The Marriage of Progressive Education and Technology By Jeannette Lee-Parikh
– Education 2050: A Vision Guided by Kurzweil’s Prophetic Insights By John Kelly
– Web 3.0: The Future in One, Two, Three By Eric Pulier
– Simulations: A Great Method for Professional Development By Ken Spero
(ET) Magazine
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 3
Magazine Contents
– In EdTech, We are Having the Time of Our Lives By Charles Sosnik
– AI Tools in Education: Balancing Opportunities and Risks for Students By Adam Geller
– The Future of Education Technology By Angelo Biasi
– Can Technology Make Learners Smarter? By Betsy Hill
– Data: Is ‘Hands Off’ The Best Way to go for Districts? By (ET) Magazine Editorial Staff
– ESSER Funding: An Innovation Opportunity By Dr. Todd Wirt
– An English Teacher’s Reflections On Good Writing In An AI World By Alli Minch
– Designing Protection Against Ransomware and Cyber Attacks By Richard Luna
– Ensuring the Future of Technology: Replicating the Massachusetts Model of Vocational-Technical Education By David Ferreira and Chris Sinacola
(ET) Magazine
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 2
Magazine Contents
– Beyond Curriculum (in a Post Pandemic World) By Charlie Warhaftig
– Now that We’ve Cruised Past COVID, (Let’s Stay the Course) By Kevin Dorsey, Ed.D.
– The Sky is NOT falling. The Sky is NOT falling By Scott Kinney
– (Potential Challenges) of Distance Education on Mars By Mark Wagner, Ph.D.
– AI in Education (and its Ethics) By Ray Solomon
– How EdTech is Driving the Market (and) Shaping the Future of Learning in its Wake By Jason Nordlicht
– Growth is a Mindset and Technology is at the Core By (ET) Magazine Editorial Staff
– What Future Business Needs from Schools: Bridging workforce needs to a K-12 environment By Stuart Patton
– Teaching Disruptive Technologies to Prepare Students for the Future By Jude Ross
(ET) Magazine
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1
Magazine Contents
– Welcome (to the Future) – From the Editor
– Inflation, Recession and Global Warfare …Degree or No Degree?
by Robert Iskander
– There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea From the Top
with Charlie Warhaftig
– With AI, There is No Limit to What We Can Accomplish
By Sal Gerardo
– The Transformation of the Classroom: Crazy Today, Obvious Tomorrow
By Steve Grubbs
– The Real State of Children’s Privacy
By Claire Quinn
– Scaling Pockets of Achievement to a System of Excellence for All With Evidence Infrastructure
By Karl Rectanus
– A 360-Degree View of Data is Key to Supporting Learners: Here is Why
By James Stoffer
– Driving ROI on Your School System’s EdTech Resources in the Post-Pandemic World: Five Key Questions to Consider
By Todd Wirt
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Spanish and English Versions of Science Techbook for Texas by Discovery Education Now Available for Use In K-8 and Biology Classrooms Statewide
Discovery Education, the worldwide EdTech leader, today announced that the Spanish and English versions of Science Techbook for Texas by Discovery Education for K-8 and Biology students is now available for use in classrooms statewide. This dynamic core instructional...
Celebrate Good Times: Come On!
By Charles Sosnik I see a lot of nervous Nellies out there. And guarded Garrys. And cautious Carls. 2022 brought us the biggest opportunity for learners since, well, ever. When generative AI was heralded a year ago, the education community immediately jumped in with a...
School A.I. Calendaring: The Real Future of Education
By Doug Cauthen When it comes to the future of education, everyone and his chatbot has an opinion. The future will not be the manufacturing-line, whole-group classroom tradition we have known, nor will it be the fully online model we experienced during the heart of...
SCIENCE OF READING, MEET THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark The pressure to revamp reading instruction has been mounting. According to data sourced from Education Week, 33 states now have laws in place that establish the “science of reading” as the standard for reading instruction and...
New, Free Professional Learning Series on Literacy Available from Discovery Education and the Dollar General
Discovery Literacy – an educational program from Discovery Education, Dollar General Literacy Foundation, and the National Afterschool Association – presents a new five-part, no-cost professional learning video series to help educators develop the critical literacy...
EdTech in Egypt: Preparing Students for Success in the Global Economy
By Howard Lewis Over the last two years, the pace of Africa’s digital transformation has accelerated. During the pandemic, demand for online access naturally increased while initiatives like the World Economic Forum’s Africa Growth Platform brought business and...
For Our EdTech Companies: Never too Old (or Good Looking) to Make a Difference
By Charles Sosnik Most of you are too young to remember Joe Willie Namath. The Alabama standout quarterback and all-too-brief “greatest ever” leader of the NY Jets used to have a saying, “I can’t wait till tomorrow, cause I get better looking every day.” That was also...
The Blessed Cloth: Weaving the Minds of Today’s Learners
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A perennial challenge for teachers has been weaving multiple subjects into a coherent whole for students. ELA is ELA, Math is Math, and Science is Science. Right? The standards have been defined explicitly to demarcate expectations and...
A.I. and the Seven Things that Make Us Human
By LeiLani Cauthen With A.I. arriving in schools, questions of its use and possible threat to teaching and learning have erupted across the world. We looked back at what Learning Counsel’s 2022 National Digital Transition Surveys asked about how teachers, and...
Discovery Education is Buying DreamBox Learning
For schools, this is some pretty big news. Dreambox Learning currently serves more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide, and they offer those 6 million learners the only dual-discipline solution rated “Strong” by Johns Hopkins...
The Greatest Minds in the World of EdTech
I rather like the editorial direction of the new ET Magazine. It feels like it is getting stronger with each issue, and it also feels very different from every other EdTech (and education) magazine or website anywhere on planet earth. In this issue, we have eight...
The Purpose of Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Traditional school is not even preparing students for this modern world, let alone for the bizarre sci-fi future that's about to knock down our door. AI is the Swiss Army knife that will replace all other tools. Right now, it's helping us tidy up our data, proofread...
The EdTech Problems of Tomorrow are being Solved TODAY
By Angelo Biasi Like most other EdTech founders/CEOs/leaders/entrepreneurs, I thrive on disruption, innovation, and the speed of change that drives scalable transformation. Solving for ‘big enough’ problems and executing at scale are a few things that get me excited,...
A Lightbulb Moment: The Shift from Just Learning about Science to Figuring Out Phenomena
by Ted Willard Science education is changing in the state of Texas. There are new standards. There will be new tests. And while it is often hard to adapt to new changes, these changes are needed, because our current methods of teaching and learning are not as...
It’s Time to Break the Myth of the “Math Person”
By Jamie Candee When I was in elementary school, I struggled. I couldn’t read and most subjects felt impossible to learn. But then my second-grade teacher took an interest in my education. She worked with me week after week to help me identify strategies I could use...
The Story Behind the World’s First Free Kid-Friendly Streaming Service
Before I dig into the origin story behind the creation of ROKiT Flix, the world’s first free, kid-friendly streaming service without advertisements, I think it’s important to walk through the various aspects of my journey of being a business owner. I began my career...
The Marriage of Progressive Education and Technology
By Jeannette Lee-Parikh You must have heard about the debacle with the AP African American History class. Rest assured, I am not going to rehash it. Instead, this wholly predictable episode (given the fraught intersection of race and the current political landscape)...
Education 2050: A Vision Guided by Kurzweil’s Prophetic Insights
By John Kelly Ray Kurzweil, the renowned Director of Engineering at Google, has made a staggering 147 predictions in his lifetime, boasting an impressive accuracy rate of 86%. In his groundbreaking book, "The Singularity is Near," Kurzweil presents many...
Web 3.0: The Future in One, Two, Three
By Eric Pulier The coming of Web3 holds immense promise for the education field. By leveraging blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, virtual spaces, and programmable NFTs, the way we teach and learn is on the cusp of being significantly reshaped. In this...
Simulations: A Great Method for Professional Development
By Ken Spiro There is a silent crisis undermining School Reform. The data below paint a stark picture of the challenge facing the education space today. In any major organizational change effort, especially in a context as complex as the education system, leadership...
Ensuring the Future of Technology: Replicating the Massachusetts Model of Vocational-Technical Education
By David Ferreira and Chris Sinacola Massachusetts has long been a national leader in vocational-technical education, nurturing the growth and development of successive generations of schools to meet the state’s changing needs. A system of industrial schools founded...
Designing Protection Against Ransomware and Cyber Attacks
By Richard Luna As a person who has dedicated his life to technology, I can tell you with the utmost certainty that every school and educational environment can be modified to be protected from both cyber and ransomware attacks. Every time there’s a new report of...
An English Teacher’s Reflections On Good Writing In An AI World
Even with 28 years of classroom experience, I’m often surprised by the impact of technological innovations on my teaching. So, the articles about ChatGPT answering questions and generating college-level essays just blew my mind. According to the New York Times, over a...
ESSER Funding: An Innovation Opportunity
By Dr. Todd Wirt The Elementary and Secondary School Relief Fund or ESSER, is an unprecedented opportunity to jumpstart innovation in K-12 education nationwide. Based on discussions I have had with school superintendents across the country, I have learned that there...
Data: Is ‘Hands Off’ The Best Way to go for Districts?
By the (ET) Magazine Editorial Staff This is something school districts have talked about for years. They have dreamed about it. They have danced around it. They have spent billions to warehouse it. They have pulled their hair our worrying about it. They have worked...
Can Technology Make Learners Smarter?
By Betsy Hill Today, we use technology to do everything from brushing our teeth to testing jet engines, and from cooking a pot roast in 45 minutes to diagnosing medical conditions. Some technology, like smart phones and email, are so ubiquitous that we find it hard to...
(Conferencing) The Future of Education Technology
By Angelo Biasi AI, VR, XR, SEL, AR, ML, and BCI were among some of the acronyms to fill the halls at the recent Future of Education Technology Conference, or FETC, that I recently attended in New Orleans, LA. Granted, given the powerful title of this event, I was...
AI Tools in Education: Balancing Opportunities and Risks for Students
By Adam Geller In recent years, artificial intelligence tools have rapidly gained popularity and become easily accessible to the everyday user. Chatbots like ChatGPT by OpenAI have been making headlines and raising concerns in the education sector as they are being...
In EdTech, We are Having the Time of Our Lives
In EdTech, We are Having the Time of Our Lives It was the best of times, it was, well, even better than that. It was the time of our lives. Being in the EdTech biz, I think we can safely say that. This is one of those times when all the stars have aligned and all the...
ILLINOIS’ SHILOH CUSD #1 ADDS NEW EDTECH TOOL TO MORE DEEPLY ENGAGE STUDENTS IN SCIENCE
Illinois’ Shiloh CUSD #1 today announced an expansion of its partnership with Discovery Education that adds a new, cutting-edge resource to the district’s middle school and high school science curriculum. In this new phase of collaboration, Discovery Education’s Pivot...
Teaching Disruptive Technologies to Prepare Students for the Future
By Jude Ross Recently I have been rethinking the idea of how we teach students to prepare them for the future. When I ask questions surrounding what they need in order to succeed professionally and personally over the next 20 years, I muse over the upcoming “Fourth...
What Future Business Needs from Schools: Bridging workforce needs to a K-12 environment
By Stuart Patton In the last century and into the early part of this century, the key role of education was to provide the future workforce with a clear knowledge and understanding of what skills the workforce would require. At the time, this was relatively easy to...
Growth is a Mindset and Technology is at the Core
BY the (ET) Staff Who knew an online portal with access to a mindsets-based social emotional learning program would grow like Jack’s mythical beanstalk? But grow it did. And people began taking notice, especially district superintendents, curriculum directors, school...
How EdTech is Driving the Market (and) Shaping the Future of Learning in its Wake
By Jason Nordlicht The concept of ‘classroom education’ has radically changed since the Pandemic. Accelerated by nationwide school closures during 2020, schools were challenged with combinations of in-person, hybrid, and remote learning models. Teachers had to adapt...
AI in Education and its Ethics
By Ray Solomon The mention of technology and the classroom evokes pandemic-era remote learning, disengaged human interaction and unequal access to hardware and software tools. What belies this is the growing trend of AI in education. As with previously mentioned...
Potential Challenges of Distance Education on Mars
By Mark Wagoner, Ph.D. Clearly educators today need to consider how best to prepare students for humanity’s rapidly approaching multi-planet future. But what if we look at another turn further down the road? What about the first students to be educated in space? What...
The Sky is Not Falling
By Scott Kinney Do you remember the story of Chicken Little? In the updated version of this classic tale that I recently saw an elementary school teacher deliver, Chicken Little read online that the sky is falling. Alarmed, he rushed to tell his friends who all...
Now That We’ve Cruised Past COVID, Let’s Stay the Course
By Kevin (Dr. D.) Dorsey, Ed.D. Most schools have returned to normal operations, but planning for future closures is still important. Now when schools close for weather, plumbing, transportation issues or so many reasons, schools can instantly flip to remote teaching...
Beyond Curriculum (In a Post Pandemic World)
Because these years were never intended to be throw-aways, to be time spent preparing them for the more important years to come. These wonderful, exciting, exhilarating, beautiful, meaningful years are their years. And these are the times of their lives.
Welcome (TO THE FUTURE)
From the Editor When I was asked by the publisher to do some editing on this new publication, I was flattered, and frankly, a bit surprised. After all, it is a collection of stories about the future of education. And as I write this column, I know I have significantly...
Inflation, Recession, and Global Warfare … (Degree or No Degree?)
By Robert Iskander As high school seniors and community college students start their new academic year this fall, anxiety is high from what they are hearing on the news: Over 5 million Ukrainian refugees are looking for jobs; meanwhile, global companies are laying off...
(There’s a Hole) in the Bottom of the Sea
Many of you who have had small children probably remember the children’s song, There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea. It starts out very simply, but with each verse, it becomes more complicated. In education, there is a hole in the bottom of the sea, and through...
(With AI) There is No Limit to What We Can Accomplish
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The Transformation of the Classroom: (Crazy Today, Obvious Tomorrow)
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The Real State of Children’s Privacy
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Scaling Pockets of Achievement to a System of Excellence for All With Evidence Infrastructure
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A 360-Degree View of Data is Key to Supporting Learners: (Here is Why)
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Spanish and English Versions of Science Techbook for Texas by Discovery Education Now Available for Use In K-8 and Biology Classrooms Statewide
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Celebrate Good Times: Come On!
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School A.I. Calendaring: The Real Future of Education
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SCIENCE OF READING, MEET THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING
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New, Free Professional Learning Series on Literacy Available from Discovery Education and the Dollar General
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EdTech in Egypt: Preparing Students for Success in the Global Economy
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For Our EdTech Companies: Never too Old (or Good Looking) to Make a Difference
By Charles Sosnik Most of you are too young to remember Joe Willie Namath. The...
The Blessed Cloth: Weaving the Minds of Today’s Learners
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A perennial challenge for teachers has been...
A.I. and the Seven Things that Make Us Human
By LeiLani Cauthen With A.I. arriving in schools, questions of its use and...
Discovery Education is Buying DreamBox Learning
For schools, this is some pretty big news. Dreambox Learning currently serves...
The Greatest Minds in the World of EdTech
I rather like the editorial direction of the new ET Magazine. It feels like it...
The Purpose of Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Traditional school is not even preparing students for this modern world, let...
The EdTech Problems of Tomorrow are being Solved TODAY
By Angelo Biasi Like most other EdTech founders/CEOs/leaders/entrepreneurs, I...
A Lightbulb Moment: The Shift from Just Learning about Science to Figuring Out Phenomena
by Ted Willard Science education is changing in the state of Texas. There are...
It’s Time to Break the Myth of the “Math Person”
By Jamie Candee When I was in elementary school, I struggled. I couldn’t read...
The Story Behind the World’s First Free Kid-Friendly Streaming Service
Before I dig into the origin story behind the creation of ROKiT Flix, the...
The Marriage of Progressive Education and Technology
By Jeannette Lee-Parikh You must have heard about the debacle with the AP...
Education 2050: A Vision Guided by Kurzweil’s Prophetic Insights
By John Kelly Ray Kurzweil, the renowned Director of Engineering at Google,...
Web 3.0: The Future in One, Two, Three
By Eric Pulier The coming of Web3 holds immense promise for the education...
Simulations: A Great Method for Professional Development
By Ken Spiro There is a silent crisis undermining School Reform. The data...
Ensuring the Future of Technology: Replicating the Massachusetts Model of Vocational-Technical Education
By David Ferreira and Chris Sinacola Massachusetts has long been a national...
Designing Protection Against Ransomware and Cyber Attacks
By Richard Luna As a person who has dedicated his life to technology, I can...
An English Teacher’s Reflections On Good Writing In An AI World
Even with 28 years of classroom experience, I’m often surprised by the impact...
ESSER Funding: An Innovation Opportunity
By Dr. Todd Wirt The Elementary and Secondary School Relief Fund or ESSER, is...
Data: Is ‘Hands Off’ The Best Way to go for Districts?
By the (ET) Magazine Editorial Staff This is something school districts have...
Can Technology Make Learners Smarter?
By Betsy Hill Today, we use technology to do everything from brushing our...
(Conferencing) The Future of Education Technology
By Angelo Biasi AI, VR, XR, SEL, AR, ML, and BCI were among some of the...
AI Tools in Education: Balancing Opportunities and Risks for Students
By Adam Geller In recent years, artificial intelligence tools have rapidly...
In EdTech, We are Having the Time of Our Lives
In EdTech, We are Having the Time of Our Lives It was the best of times, it...
ILLINOIS’ SHILOH CUSD #1 ADDS NEW EDTECH TOOL TO MORE DEEPLY ENGAGE STUDENTS IN SCIENCE
Illinois’ Shiloh CUSD #1 today announced an expansion of its partnership...
Teaching Disruptive Technologies to Prepare Students for the Future
By Jude Ross Recently I have been rethinking the idea of how we teach students...
What Future Business Needs from Schools: Bridging workforce needs to a K-12 environment
By Stuart Patton In the last century and into the early part of this century,...
Growth is a Mindset and Technology is at the Core
BY the (ET) Staff Who knew an online portal with access to a mindsets-based...
How EdTech is Driving the Market (and) Shaping the Future of Learning in its Wake
By Jason Nordlicht The concept of ‘classroom education’ has radically changed...
AI in Education and its Ethics
By Ray Solomon The mention of technology and the classroom evokes pandemic-era...
Potential Challenges of Distance Education on Mars
By Mark Wagoner, Ph.D. Clearly educators today need to consider how best to...
The Sky is Not Falling
By Scott Kinney Do you remember the story of Chicken Little? In the updated...
Now That We’ve Cruised Past COVID, Let’s Stay the Course
By Kevin (Dr. D.) Dorsey, Ed.D. Most schools have returned to normal...
Beyond Curriculum (In a Post Pandemic World)
By Charlie Warhaftig Back in the 70s,...
Welcome (TO THE FUTURE)
From the Editor When I was asked by the publisher to do some editing on this...
Inflation, Recession, and Global Warfare … (Degree or No Degree?)
By Robert Iskander As high school seniors and community college students start...
(There’s a Hole) in the Bottom of the Sea
Many of you who have had small children probably remember the children’s song,...
(With AI) There is No Limit to What We Can Accomplish
“A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to...
The Transformation of the Classroom: (Crazy Today, Obvious Tomorrow)
By Steve GrubbsMany schools have a human cadaver lab for their biology majors;...
The Real State of Children’s Privacy
By Claire QuinnFor over 20 years, the United States Children’s Online Privacy...
Scaling Pockets of Achievement to a System of Excellence for All With Evidence Infrastructure
What started with projected images printed on glass plates in 1870 has...
A 360-Degree View of Data is Key to Supporting Learners: (Here is Why)
It takes a village to support the whole child, and to set that child up for...
A Message From Our Editor
“When I was asked by the publisher to do some editing on this new publication, I was flattered, and frankly, a bit surprised. After all, it is a collection of stories about the future of education. And as I write this column, I know I have significantly more years behind me than ahead of me. In fact, I dare say that many of my memories can be read about in history books. So, why did the board want an old man to edit their bouncing baby publication?
I believe it has something to do with context.
Education’s innovations are coming fast and furious now, and many believe the days of readin’ and writin’ and rithmatic are long gone, as are the days when teachers were the arbiters of what makes good learning.”
Charles Sosnik
Editor in Chief
