The full report, Driving K-12 Innovation, from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a professional association for K-12 ed-tech leaders, won’t come out until February. But a news release Tuesday cited those top three hurdles, along with the top three factors set to accelerate and enable K-12 innovation in 2025. The findings are based on extensive surveys and discussions, according to the release.
It lists the accelerators as learner agency, or the will and the skill of students to learn; building an array of school leaders; and changing attitudes about how student learning can be demonstrated and assessed. These factors will “help motivate and increase the speed of innovation,” the news release said.
The report’s top three “tech enablers” for 2025 are generative artificial intelligence, analytics and adaptive technologies, and untethered broadband and connectivity. These tools will help schools “surmount hurdles and leverage accelerators,” per the release.
These are what CoSN calls the “Top Topics” of the forthcoming Driving K-12 Innovation report. More than 100 advisory board members from 13 countries and 34 states were involved in creating it and selected these topics, the news release said. It describes advisory board members as “educators, technologists, changemakers and industry partners.”
“Selecting the Top Topics is a vital step in CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation initiative, as it highlights the most pressing challenges and opportunities our schools face,” CoSN CEO Keith Krueger said in a public statement. “We are deeply grateful to our advisory board for their invaluable contributions — their insights, diverse perspectives and commitment to innovation make this project possible.”
