Amira Learning is an AI-powered suite of reading assistance tools that can act as a personalized tutor for new readers. Amira’s capabilities include a feature that lets it listen to students read aloud and recognize the reading strengths and weaknesses of each student. The tool can also provide in-the-moment suggestions to students, acting as an AI-powered tutor, and also serves as a reading instruction assistant for teachers, helping generate lesson plans and more.
Along is a digital communications platform designed to help strengthen the relationship between teachers and students. Using a mixture of text messaging, images, and videos, this offers a rich way for teachers to make contact with students and for them to respond and start a digital dialogue -- which can also spill over into physical conversations.
This month’s Edtech Show & Tell, features many products and platforms that are being showcased at ISTELive 2025, including interactive whiteboards, monitors, printers, projectors, AI apps, and much more. These are not reviews or endorsements, but a showcase of education-friendly tools and more that we think might be noteworthy for you.
The ViewSonic myViewBoard 3.0 is a powerful, inclusive digital whiteboard platform built for today’s dynamic classrooms. Recently awarded the prestigious ISTE Seal, it meets the highest standards for digital pedagogy, usability, and student engagement.
The best affordable gaming computers for schools allow you to enjoy the power of a machine built for gaming, but without the usual steep price tag. The idea behind finding that sweet spot on price and power, is to ensure your school can afford to get as many machines as possible, without scrimping on performance.
Education leaders must strike a careful balance between system security and usability when making organizational technology decisions, writes Steve Baule, director of Winona State University's online educational doctorate program. Though leaders don't have to be technology experts, they should possess enough foundational understanding of how their organization's systems operate to ask informed questions, evaluate technology investments, and align procurement decisions with organizational goals.
