Welcome to the August Edtech Show & Tell, in which our editors share some of the new edtech products that have caught our attention this month. These are not reviews or endorsements, but a showcase of education-friendly items, platforms, and more that we think might be noteworthy for you.
This month's new offerings include a CPU liquid cooling system, an enhanced digital math platform, a desktop display monitor, and more.
Many new products and platforms debuted at ISTELive this year, for which we did a special ISTELive 2024 Edtech Show & Tell.
Cooler Master | MasterLiquid 360 Ion
A CPU liquid cooling solution, the MasterLiquid 360 Ion includes features such as dual chambers for the most efficient cooling, a 2.1-inch customizable IPS LCD Screen, three Mobius 120P ARGB fans, controllable ARGB lighting and automatic PWM adjustment and a simplified bracket design to facilitate installation.
iCEV | Eduthings for CTE
The Eduthings platform allows CTE educators and administrators to securely manage, analyze, and report on CTE data related to the things that matter most—industry-based certifications, work-based learning, career and technical student organizations (CTSOs), advisory boards, and inventory. It simplifies data collection, reporting, and analysis, helps districts comply with CTE regulations, tracks student achievement, and much more.
Illustrative Math | IM v.360
IM v.360 supports IM's problem-based instruction and features while incorporating new additions based on feedback from teachers, school leaders, and students. New K-5 features include language learning goals, kindergarten number-writing lessons and checkpoint and end-of-unit assessment guidance. IM Certified math curricula are free, research-driven and aligned to college and career-ready standards.
McGraw Hill | SIMskills Badges
SIMskills Badges is a series of self-paced, online courses designed to enhance college students' skills in Microsoft Excel. The courses allow students to earn digital badges that demonstrate their proficiency in Microsoft Excel and allow them to learn what they want, when they want, without the stress of deadlines, grades, or exams.
NextLevel Acoustics | Vestaboard Soundbar Solution
NextLevel’s new soundbar seamlessly integrates premium sound quality into the iconic Vestaboard display for an elevated experience. This soundbar solution is passive, allowing users to pair it with their preferred two-channel streaming amplifier. The soundbar is designed to perfectly match the Vestaboard’s size and form factor and comes in two color options: white with a white grille or black with a black grille.
Renaissance | Renaissance Next
Renaissance Next provides teachers with real-time recommendations, combining assessment, practice activities, and instructional data in a single view though the integration of key products including Star Assessments, Freckle, Accelerated Reader, myON, and Lalilo. Teachers can quickly view students’ performance, progress and skill mastery, and review relevant lesson plans and activities to adapt, amplify, or adjust.
Sharp | MultiSync EA Series Desktop Display
The new MultiSync DD-EA272U 27-inch desktop display is a fully featured high-resolution LCD display, ideal for users in corporate, finance, healthcare and education. It features an IPS LCD panel with great viewing angles and an immersive 4K UHD native resolution. With a three-sided ultra-narrow bezel, the DD-EA272U is designed to eliminate distractions when used in multi-monitor configurations.
Asus | AMD Ryzen AI Laptops
Asus' new lineup of AMD Ryzen AI laptops feature advanced AI capability with 50 TOPS NPU AI engines. This includes the new ProArt P16 and ProArt PX13, both of which feature the ASUS-exclusive StoryCube and MuseTree apps to enable smarter and more streamlined creative workflows, made possible by the power of fully local AI. The new Zenbook S 16 offers an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, with up to 32GB of fast LPDDR5X RAM and a spacious 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD and a 78Whr battery.
Digital Promise & Edthena | Science of Reading Pathway
As teachers complete coaching cycles, they will now be able to select a Science of Reading pathway within the AI Coach by Edthena platform and access Digital Promise’s research-based content, strategies, and best practices. The hundreds of teacher-facing strategy recommendations are backed by published academic studies documenting the predictiveness of student outcomes, and supported by Digital Promise's Learner Variability Project, which builds on emerging research into learner variability to support a whole-child framework for student achievement.
