article thumbnail

In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards.

EdTech 120
article thumbnail

In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. Debugging software and hardware issues on-the-fly. Definition #2 – Guiding the Studies. This is not usually something teachers today consider as their purview.