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?Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too

Edsurge

The New Schools Venture Fund estimates that K-12 schools collectively spend about $9 billion per year on instructional software, digital assessments, laptops and tablets for students and teachers. These decision-makers spend billions of dollars on equipment and resources to implement their decisions. Rapidly emerging technologies.

EdTech 60
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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

Unlike many districts where a lack of devices and spotty Wi-Fi made adapting to online learning difficult, almost all Lindsay students already had access to their own tablets or laptops — which are age-appropriate and replaced every three years — and community Wi-Fi. Getting there wasn’t easy. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

Edsurge

At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. To infuse both real-world scenarios and academic standards into the new exams, as well as topics like leadership that college admissions reps would care about. Their goal?