iPads, MakerEd and More in Education

Below is a playlist of all of the 2018 Super Bowl commercials. Of course, if you want to find a specific ad, it will be easier to locate it on the Adblitz website. This playlist will most likely get updated over time so make sure to check it out after the game if you want to just binge through all of the commercials.

We’re getting ready to count down to the new year with a countdown of our own: EdSurge’s annual look at the year’s top K-12 stories as chosen by your clicks and shares.

This year, readers turned to stories that helped them make sense of technology’s evolving role in our classrooms and our lives. Every year has its trends, fads and buzzwords—computational thinking, social-emotional learning, Google. But what, if anything, can we learn from them?

Many of the stories here provide an answer to education’s perennial question: How can we make the time we spend with students just a little better? And yet the No. 1 story tapped a different defining spirit for a year marked by teacher strikes and walkouts from Arizona to West Virginia. It poses, perhaps, a different question: Are states doing enough to improve the lives—and livelihoods—of today’s working teacher?

We’re also adding in a handful of “editor’s picks” that focus on what our reporters and contributors do best: Tell stories about the present and future of education. We hope you’ll give them a look. Happy New Year!

Sometimes the best way to escape from a productive rut is to switch up your tools. Whether it’s a simple word processor, a smarter to-do list, or a more efficient way to transcribe interviews, downloading some new apps can help manage your time and produce better work. Here are some of the best productivity apps for phones, tablets, and computers that launched in the last year or got a substantial upgrade.