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April 23rd, 2024 | John Jennings

Adding AI to Your School District's Acceptable Use Policy

Wherever you are in your journey to AI-readiness, your district’s acceptable use policy likely looms as a high-priority update. But [...]

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January 4, 2024 | John Jennings

2024 eSpark Roadmap Update: What’s Happening This Year?

Phew! 2023 was arguably the busiest year ever for eSpark, but we have no intention of slowing down. Raise a [...]

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December 21, 2023 | Kelsey Jern

10 Questions K-12 Admins Should Ask About AI Learning Tools

Artificial intelligence has already become such a big part of life that students themselves are now advocating for inclusion of [...]

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December 14, 2023 | Kelsey Jern

5 Free AI Training Resources for K-12 Teachers

Just one year after ChatGPT was released to the world, artificial intelligence is officially everywhere. It’s no longer a far-fetched [...]

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December 13, 2023 | John Jennings

Survey Report: K-12 Technology Leaders On the State of AI

AI is taking the world by storm and growing exponentially more useful and powerful with every incremental breakthrough. In K-12, [...]

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December 6, 2023 | John Jennings

School District Leaders Speak Out On AI in Schools

Will this year be remembered as Year 1 of a new era of AI in schools, or has the whole [...]

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December 5, 2023 | John Jennings

Introducing Choice Math

Playful personalization is not just for reading anymore! With Choice Math, students will now enjoy instruction and practice tailored to [...]

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December 4, 2023 | John Jennings

2023 Recap: What’s New in eSpark?

What an exciting year it was for eSparkers everywhere! Looking back at our New Years’ Resolutions from January, our dreams [...]

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November 29, 2023 | Kelsey Jern

Predicting the Challenges of AI Use in Schools (And How to Avoid Them)

One of the most surprising things about artificial intelligence is just how quickly it has progressed. That’s also one of [...]

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November 17, 2023 | Kelsey Jern

Digital Promise Awards eSpark Research-Based Design Product Certification

With so many options for online learning available, one thing that can set a program apart from the others is [...]

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November 15, 2023 | John Jennings

Can Students Use ChatGPT? A Warning About Age Requirements

☝️ This seems like a simple question. Given how much airspace ChatGPT has taken up in K-12 conversations lately, one [...]

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November 10, 2023 | Kelsey Jern

5 Ways You’re Already Using AI in the Classroom But Didn’t Know It

How confident are you in your ability to detect artificial intelligence within the tools you use daily? According to a [...]

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November 8, 2023 | John Jennings

Breaking Down the K-12 Generative AI Readiness Checklist

In October of 2023, the Council of the Great City Schools and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) joined forces [...]

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