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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. Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide.

EdTech 60
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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? But what else was she learning in this maker space? During a break from her stop-motion work, Bechtel rattled off the “maker elements” she had used while creating her video.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

And before that, an advisor for Future Ready Schools and has moderated and presented numerous Future Ready’s Summits and Institutes. Before 2gnoMe, Ilya led several technology start-ups and managed the global cloud program at Dell Software. About the Host. program (Telecommunications, Education, and Multimedia).