According to the Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) Driving K-12 Innovation initiative, an international Advisory Board of about 140+ education and technology experts select the most important challenges or hurdles, mega-trends or accelerators and tech enablers that will drive K-12 innovation for the year ahead. This year, the advisory board’s work occurred during an approximately 10 week period. The results:
Hurdles
1) Attracting & Retaining Educators and IT Professionals
2) Ensuring Cybersecurity & Safety Online
3) Scaling Innovation & Inertia of Education Systems
Accelerators
1) Changing Attitudes Toward Demonstrating Learning
2) Building the Human Capacity of Leaders
3) Learner Agency (students should be active learners who make choices and take actions to feel ownership and control over their own learning)
Tech Enablers
1) Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
2) Analytics & Adaptive Technologies
3) Rich Digital Ecosystems.
Consortium for School Networking
