I came across WCET (WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies) when I was researching to write a paper for my Research Methodology in Education course. Their website then became a reference to me due to the fact that they are constantly posting news and trends in areas related to leveraging learning technologies. On their website, they define the cooperative’s mission: “WCET’s mission is to accelerate the adoption of effective practices and policies, advancing excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning.” In addition, they conduct relevant research to the Education field that “aims to shed light on topics that support the operation, instruction and technology implementation of technology-enhanced higher education.” And one of the focus areas is Emerging Technologies: https://wcet.wiche.edu/focus-area/emerging-tech
Many of the issues debated on week 1 are being followed by the WCET and they provide several links and resources that expand on the topic. The growing field of Adaptive Learning, for instance, is presented here: https://wcet.wiche.edu/focus-areas/student-success/adaptive-learning
They also have a blog with weekly posts on technology-enhanced teaching and learning: https://wcetfrontiers.org/
I would say that the main drawback is that their research is mainly focused on higher education, leaving those interested in K-12 with little sources.
I found this site to be an easy rabbit hole to fall into. Topics are curated in a logical manner, and are a good mix of internal analyses, and of external articles on relevant topics. Yes, as David points out in his introduction, the focus (or bias) is towards higher education, that still has value for the K-12, or at least the 9-12 sector. Trends that develop in the higher-ed sector do seem to trickle down to the 9-12 sector. I know that in my teaching of grade 12 sciences, my “customers” are, for the most part, planning to proceed to post-secondary education; perhaps not in our particular subject, but likely in one that is related. Knowing the educational trends to which post-secondary schools may be leaning is important to providing students with skills that will enable their success at further study — not just with the curriculum in front of them in our class.