Almost two-thirds (65%) of educators use AI to bridge resource gaps amid platform fatigue and a lack of system integration that threatens productivity, according to Jotform‘s EdTech Trends 2026 report detailed in an eSchool News article.
The findings are based on a survey of 50 teachers, instructors, and professors split about equally between higher education and K-12.
Key findings from the EdTech Trends 2026 report include:
Platform fatigue: Educators are managing an average of eight different digital tools, with 50 percent overwhelmed by “too many platforms.”
The integration gap: Although 77 percent of educators say their current digital tools work well, 73 percent cite a “lack of integration between systems” as their primary difficulty. “The No. 1 thing I would like for my digital tools to do is to talk to each other,” one respondent notes. “I feel like often we have to jump from one platform to another just to get work done.”
The burden of manual tasks: Educators still spend an average of seven hours per week on manual tasks.
AI for productivity: Fifty-eight percent of respondents use AI most frequently as a productivity tool for research, brainstorming, and writing.
Data security and ethics: Ethical implications and data security are the top concerns when implementing AI.
Of survey respondents working with AI, nearly half (48 percent) use it for both student learning and administrative tasks, such as summarizing long documents and automating feedback.
“We conducted this survey to better understand the pain points educators have with technology,” says Lainie Johnson, director of enterprise marketing at Jotform. “We were surprised that our respondents like their tech tools so much. Because while the tools themselves are great, their inability to work together causes a problem.”
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