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What Is Educational Technology (Ed Tech), and Why Should Schools Invest in It?

EdTech Magazine

Today’s teachers have robust technology at their disposal, and students have grown up in an increasingly digital world. But, with so many software applications, devices and other technologies on the market, it’s easy for teachers to become overwhelmed with the array of opportunities available to them. This is a 1.7

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Guest Post: How We Can Reframe Edtech Selection to Promote Equity

Digital Promise

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this first post, the authors outline how they centered equity as they developed an edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation guide for school systems leaders.

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Google Jamboard 2021 with Tom Mullaney

The CoolCatTeacher

One of the most popular shows of 2018 was with Tom Mullaney on Google Jamboard so we’ve updated it for 2021! Google Jamboard 2021 – Hot Tips with Tom Mullaney. Tom’s education experience includes Special Education, Social Studies, and educational technology coaching in New York, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.

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COVID-19 and the Value of Edtech Coaches

Digital Promise

A 2018 PwC survey reported that many U.S. educators do not have enough experience, resources, or training to use technology in the most effective ways, with teachers at low-income schools particularly ill-prepared. Our new report presents findings from a survey of edtech coaches in the U.S.

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SEL at Scale: How Edtech Can Support Meaningful Social and Emotional Learning

Digital Promise

Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged. Among the many potential benefits of edtech use in SEL is cultivating students’ agency in their own learning experiences. Leveraging technology to improve health in adolescence: A developmental science perspective.

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The Future of EdTech

The CoolCatTeacher

Education technology has good uses, but as we’ve moved through the pandemic, sometimes it may have been mis-implemented or implemented without teacher PD. Today’s guest, Al Kingsley, has worked with edtech for over thirty years. He shares observations on where education technology is and where it is going in the future.

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Epic Outages of Edtech Tools Show K-12 Schools Are Vulnerable to Cyberattacks

Edsurge

edtech: Information technology for K-12 public schools in America is a $760 billion sector, affecting over 50 million students. Many districts are small, and may only have a handful of staff for all of their technology operations. What schools can do, experts say, is to diligently vet the edtech they use.

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