Imagi is a platform designed to help students learn, and educators teach, coding, with a focus on building skills in the Python programming language. This web-based system is built to be accessible from most devices and to enable teacher-level controls. Yet, it's also designed to be gamified for the most STEM fun for students while still learning those curriculum-based lessons.

Tech & Learning has announced the winners of their 2025 "Best Tools for Back to School" to help educators discover the most effective products and solutions for any learning environment. The judges evaluated nominated products based on their versatility, value, and ability to solve specific problems to support innovative, effective teaching and learning.

Updated September 2025: "As AI papers have become more common, I’m getting better and better at spotting them," writes educator Erik Ofgang. "Thanks to my own observations and conversations with colleagues, I’ve developed what I think is a pretty solid AI detection toolkit."

Updated for Back To School 2025: On September 17, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the new legal foundation of our nation, the U.S. Constitution. Now a federal holiday also known as Citizenship Day, this commemoration of the world’s oldest functional constitution serves as an ideal launching point for a year of civics and U.S. history instruction.

he AtlasIED IPX family is an IP-based series of endpoints featuring built-in loudspeakers, microphones, and displays, providing audio communications and visual text to support a range of facilities. The IPX family integrates with Singlewire InformaCast alert software to provide customers with an enhanced emergency communications solution. With advanced emergency notification features, this power couple delivers audible and visual alerts to on-premise and mobile devices, ensuring that information concerning lockdowns, evacuations, intruders, active shooters, severe weather, and other critical situations reaches everyone quickly and reliably.

A few recent T&L overviews of teaching apps and platforms:

• Teachally (AI-powered teaching assistant)
• Skill Struck (AI and tech literacy skills)
• BBC Learning Hub (news and current events)
• Socrait (AI-powered teaching assistant)
• FitMoney $uperSquad (financial literacy)
• GeoGebra (math, geometry and algebra)

Good luck!

The AI field had quite a summer. Over the past few months, OpenAI, Google, and others have been in competition to release new-and-improved models with updated capabilities and education-specific settings designed for tutoring. The growth has been rapid enough that many are having trouble keeping up with it all, so here’s a closer look at some of the most recent significant AI developments that every teacher should know about.

Updated for 2025: Mentimeter is a tool that was designed to help create and offer presentations, and it's ideally suited for education. From quizzes and polls to word clouds, this offers some really helpful classroom tools. In more recent updates this already powerful system has been enhanced with AI powers to make building with and using the tools of this service even more powerful and -- crucially for teachers -- time efficient.

Borne out of necessity, ZoopLoop Silicone Stylus Tether was designed by two television script supervisors who needed a way to ensure that their styluses would not go missing while taking digital notes on a busy Hollywood set. Flexible, while at the same time sturdy, one end of the tether adjusts to fit securely around the smooth, glossy circumference of a variety of styluses, while the other end attaches to the camera cutout or any porthole in a tablet case, ensuring that the stylus will always be in close proximity to the tablet.

Chatbot will "default to the under-18 experience" when age is uncertain after teen suicide lawsuit.

While evidence suggests banning cell phones can help academics, a few researchers search for more solid connection.

To protect kids, companies with young users must move beyond quick fixes and design digital spaces into which safe gaming is built.

By rethinking what a good day in the classroom looks and sounds like, new teachers can better support their students.