推动K-12教育创新：2026年的挑战、加速器、技术赋能者

2026 HURDLES•ACCELERATORS• TECH ENABLERS CoSN would like to thank the following sponsors for supporting this work: CoSN is vendor neutral and does not endorse products or services. Any mention of a specific solution is for contextual purposes. ABOUT CoSN -THE CONSORTIUM FOR SCHOOL NETWORKING CoSN, the world-class professional association for K-12 EdTech leaders, stands at the forefront of educationinnovation. We are driven by a mission to equip current and aspiring K-12 education technology leaders, their teams,and school districts with the community, knowledge, and professional development they need to cultivate engaginglearning environments. Our vision is rooted in a future where every learner reaches their unique potential, guided byour community. CoSN represents over 14 million students and continues to grow as a powerful and influential voicein K-12 education. CoSN also provides opportunities for companies that support the K-12 EdTech community toparticipate as corporate members. FOREWORD K-12 education is facing a pivotal moment. Around the world, educators and education technology professionalsare navigating rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), intensifying cybersecurity threats, shiftingworkforce expectations, and evolving understandings of how students learn and demonstrate knowledge. Thisyear’s Driving K-12 Innovation initiative’s Top Topics reflect these realities with clarity and urgency. While our 2026 Accelerators remain unchanged from those of 2025, the landscape around them has meaningfullyshifted.Critical Media Literacy enters the Hurdles list for the first time, highlighting the global imperative forstudents to navigate AI-generated content, misinformation, and the blurred lines between fact and fabrication.Data & Information Visualization joins the Tech Enablers, signaling a growing recognition that making datausable and actionable is essential for equity and instructional decision-making. And, for the first time since 2020,Tools for Privacy & Safety Onlinereturns as a Tech Enabler, underscoring how dramatically cyber risks anddata governance needs have intensified. Designed to help schools around the world innovate with confidence into 2026 and beyond, this report offersgrounded insights from districts of varying sizes, instructional contexts, and global perspectives, showing howthese Top Topics work in concert to impact the future of K-12 learning. Most importantly, the report affirms a shared truth:Technology will keep accelerating, but intentionalinnovation in K-12 education depends on the strength, creativity, and humanity of educators and IT leaders.This report invites you to lead that future boldly and responsibly, and together. Keith Krueger CEOCoSN - The Consortium for School NetworkingWashington DC, United States CONTENTS About CoSN - The Consortium for School Networking.............................................................3Foreword..............................................................................................................................................3Introduction........................................................................................................................................5Methodology...................................................................................................................................................5Top Topics for Driving K-12 Innovation in 2026............................................................................6In Context............................................................................................................................................7Bridges (themes)...............................................................................................................................10Attracting & Retaining Educators and IT Professionals............................................................12Ensuring Cybersecurity & Safety Online......................................................................................15Critical Media Literacy.....................................................................................................................18Building the Human Capacity of Leaders...................................................................................20Changing Attitudes Toward Demonstrating Learning.............................................................22Learner Agency................................................................................................................................24Generative Artificial Intelligence..................................................................................................26Data & Information Visualization..................................................................................................29Tools for Privacy & Safety Online..................................................................................................31Taking a Holistic View