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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

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Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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To Prepare Kids for Their Futures, Incorporate Technology Into Core Curriculum

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Your school just invested in a new set of Chromebooks or iPads. Our nation’s employers report that creativity and critical thinking are the most valuable skills an employee can have. Even in districts without 1:1 devices, digital content can be used to provide context for academic standards and spark classroom discussion and inquiry.

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

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A report published in January suggests that most software licenses purchased go unused. For instance, a curriculum director may decide that one math program does not align with the district’s academic standards, while another one does. Meanwhile, the number of tools in classrooms today has ballooned.

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What’s New

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Combined, Faria and Rubicon will serve over 10,000 schools in 130 countries with curriculum support for over 600 academic standards. QwertyTown is One Roster compatible and has partnered with Clever to offer Auto Sync, Google SSO, sign-in with badges, Chromebook auto login and more.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

eSpark

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

eSpark

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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