Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

One of my favorite parts of being an educator is the sense of community that is created with each new class of students. Fostering that feeling in person has its challenges of course, but is a bit ...

Khan Academy provides free online courses, lessons and practice in a wide range of subjects. With its extensive library of interactive exercises and instructional videos, it supports personalized ...

If you’ve been teaching for a while, you’ve probably noticed how your learners are no longer the same. Their habits, focus, and expectations have shifted. What worked a decade ago — worksheets, long ...

Studies show up to a 75 percent improvement in retention with experiential learning scenarios. The case: the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping. The investigators: a group of students at Independence High ...

Although policies can help create structure, they don’t build consistent digital habits—those have to be taught, modeled, ...

Students may now be learning from home, but many teachers still think in terms of the classroom, whether it’s a virtual one or in a brick-and-mortar building. That’s why collaboration platforms such ...

Building on an AI-themed Askwith from September in which Professor Howard Gardner discussed how cognition and education have shifted amid the rise of generative AI and large language models (LLM), ...

The roughly 1,000-student rural district developed its own grade-level standards for what’s come to be known as soft skills, ...

Kindergarten teacher Jessica Jones had a meltdown over the weekend, the result of a tight timeline to get her virtual classroom set up before school starts. “It’s very overwhelming,” she said Tuesday ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Some Midlands teachers are already back in the classroom getting things prepared before students return. Now, some people outside of the classroom are asking teachers what ...