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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

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Noakes: She recommended a needs assessment, as Diamond outlined, but said schools often look at the curricular content or internal infrastructure only. Noakes emphasized that the process must include an equity assessment—can all of the students and teachers access the tech outside of school? She received her B.S.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

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GRADECAM ENHANCED ANSWER FORMAT ( www.GradeCam.com ) GradeCam introduced a futuristic new answer format powered by Aita – their proprietary Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant technology – that can read and score handwritten letters and words up to twenty characters in length. No bubbles required. Illuminate 11.0

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Increasing Engagement, Creativity, and Innovation with Minds-On/Hands-On Activities

User Generated Education

Learner-Initiated and Directed – When presented as self-directed learning, educators, as mentioned above, give learners an open ended task, like develop a new type of transportation for use on another planet or design an assistive technology for someone with a disability. Puppet Making and Green Screen Recording.

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What Technology Helps Students Learn?

eSchool News

Digital textbooks offer interactive content, and assistive technologies like speech-to-text tools support diverse learning needs, collectively creating a dynamic and enriched learning environment for students. How does technology help students learn? Coding programs such as Scratch foster critical thinking and problem-solving.

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K-12 Tech Innovation News

eSchool News

However, remote learning highlighted a need for such programs, leading districts to quickly adopt these technology programs. Assessment tools and data analytics play a major role in education today, enabling educators to gauge students’ understanding and use data to determine what interventions students need to best learn.

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