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Tech Access in Schools: Making Edtech Accessible to All

Digital Promise

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome.

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3 Ways edtech can help education get back on track

Neo LMS

Despite claims that technology is negatively affecting learning schedules, edtech is a valuable tool for students. Today’s students can utilize the time they invest in studying in the best way possible to achieve their academic goals. Below are three ways edtech can make a difference in the education sector.

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Digital Promise Releases Report on Value of Research in Edtech Design

Digital Promise

In an industry that values innovation, cutting-edge design, and lightning response to changing market needs, how can edtech products demonstrate their effectiveness? Typically, efficacy studies serve as a metric for understanding the value of a learning tool. Find out more of what we learned in the new report.

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Choosing Edtech: Three Learnings from Five Districts

Digital Promise

How might districts find edtech to support learning? Districts will have access to the nearly $190 billion which the U.S. Fortunately, educators can leverage learnings from some leading-edge K-12 districts who have developed thoughtful processes for making edtech decisions despite limited available evidence.

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EdTech that transforms access for physically disabled students

Neo LMS

Undoubtedly eye-gaze technology has created the greatest advance in access for people with serious immobility such as those suffering paralysis or ALS. EdTech that transforms access for physically disabled students. In this way differently abled students are not studying in a noticeably different way to their peers.

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Moving beyond transparency to accessibility and awareness

eSchool News

Here’s why anecdotes are as important as data in edtech decisions For more news on policy, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub In one of my graduate courses for future PK-12 educational leaders, students are asked to review a student handbook and provide their recommendations on how to improve those handbooks. is not enough.

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What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

Edsurge

a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Amy Ballard, Ph.D., I need to reiterate with my teachers that the tech tool itself isn't the be all, end all,” Ballard said.

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