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

Edsurge

In an economy that is moving rapidly in the direction of more independent workers executing high-level projects for a variety of employers, navigating an ever-changing ecosystem of new technologies will be a fundamental skill for workers. Rapidly emerging technologies. Students need access to tools that work. Static state budgets.

EdTech 60
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National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation

The Hechinger Report

Policy changes may play a role too. states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. Test administrators brought their own tablets and internet routers to testing sites. Then, nearly all U.S.

Education 109
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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

Edsurge

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. We left behind the tablets and spun out a few adjacent businesses.

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The Characteristics Of A Good School

TeachThought - Learn better.

For example, when technology changes, it impacts the kinds of things we want and need. Updates to technology change what we desire; as we desire new things, technology changes to seek to provide them. Most modern academic standards take a body-of-knowledge approach to education. What should schools teach, and how?