Future US, the leading information and event producer for professional communications, entertainment, and education technology markets, has announced its 2018 finalists for the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence.
“To win a Tech & Learning Award of Excellence (AOE) isn't just a badge of participation. It is an endorsement that your product or service meets the standards of the most innovative edtech educators working in classrooms today,” says Kevin Hogan, Managing Director of Content for T&L. “Since 1982, T&L has sought out and celebrated the best in education technology through the AOE. It used to be a simple review of speeds and feeds. In this year’s contest, nominated products were judged on two key factors: their uniqueness in the classroom, school, or district, and whether or not the nominated product solved specific problems.”
Tech & Learning advisors selected 10 finalists in three categories—Best use of edtech in a classroom, school, or district. All finalists will be invited to a special reception at TCEA where the top winners for each category will be announced.
This year’s finalists include:
Finalists: Classroom Finalists: School Finalists: District
Acer C732T Bloomz App HoverCam
Chromebook Pilot3
Education Galaxy Unicheck Otus
Formative Assessment System MobyMax PowerGistics
for Teachers (FAST™) by Charging Towers FastBridge Learning
Califone® Grouplink™ FreshGrade Edmentum
Bluetooth Jackbox Exact Path
MERGE Cube x2VOL by Kids InfoBits
intelliVOL
Mango Classroom by NEO LMS Shmoop
Mango Languages
Promethean NetSupport DNA Barracuda
ActivPanel CloudGen
Firewall &
Barracuda
Essentials
PowerSchool Unified The Epson BrightLink Impero
Classroom Interactive Display Education
Pro
Qball MindPlay Literacy CatchOn
NetSupport School zSpace AR/VR ClassLink
Laptop Analytics
“Our advisors spent many hours reviewing the nominations, doing additional research on the products as needed, and applying their expertise as some of the nation’s top innovators in the field,” says Christine Weiser, Content Director for T&L. “Being selected as a finalist in the refreshed Awards of Excellence is a true stamp of approval that these products are making an impact in the way schools teach and learn.”
The following products also received good reviews from the judges, and will be recognized as Honorable Mentions in the 2018 Awards of Excellence Contest:
AVer Information’s CP3 Series Interactive Flat Panel
BenQ RP704
BrainPOP Creative Coding
Clever Kids University PreK, Powered by Footsteps2Brilliance
CoderZ by Intelitek
Edthena
ExploreLearning Gizmos
Fablevision Fab@School Maker Studio
GoGuardian Admin
Learning Ally audiobook solution
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3
Metametrics Lexile and Quantile Growth Planner
MimioFrame by Boxlight
NWEA MAP Reading Fluency
PaperCut MF
PBS LearningMedia
Pearson Project Imagine: U.S. History Grades 9-12
For more information about the Tech & Learning’s Awards of Excellence, contact Christine Weiser. Learn more about the honorees in the December/January issue of Tech & Learning.
Thanks to our judges:
Phil Hintz, Director of Technology, Gurnee School District 56 (IL); Matthew X. Joseph, Director of Digital Learning and Innovation, Milford Public Schools (MA); Jerri Kemble, Assistant Superintendent, Leading, Learning & Technology, Lawrence Public Schools (KS); Frank Pileiro, Supervisor of Technology, Linwood Public Schools (NJ); Andrew Wallace, Director of Technology, South Portland Maine Schools.
