The Future of Technology in K-12 Education — And Where the Real Opportunities Lie

What actually changes a school is rarely the most impressive thing on the showroom floor.

Apr 24, 2026

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In this piece, Mark Skehan from The Big Picture Group shares what he took away from ISE 2025, and why the real opportunity for K–12 lies in purposeful standardisation, smarter infrastructure, and designing technology around teachers, not the other way around.

AI-assisted monitoring. Predictive maintenance. Campus-wide AV consistency. These aren't future concepts. They're already reshaping how schools plan, deploy, and support their technology environments.

The question is: are schools buying reactively, or designing intentionally?

Read the full article: https://integrate-expo.com/education-technology/the-future-of-technology-in-k-12-education-and-where-the-real-opportunities-lie/

Exploring what's next in education AV? The AETM K–12 Conference runs alongside Integrate, 2–4 September at ICC Sydney. Register now: https://integrate-expo.com/register/

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