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Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials

Edsurge

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. I get hired sometimes to write reading stories for kids in classrooms, and I get paid $80. But one group is often left out of the design process: students.

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Edtech Company Encourages Its Employees to Volunteer as Substitute Teachers

Edsurge

For example: In late January, Utah Governor Spencer Cox issued an executive order giving state employees up to 30 hours of paid time off to sit in for missing staff at public and private schools. Company officials say it became apparent during the pandemic that school administrators couldn’t get substitutes fast enough.

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How to Create Apps in the Classroom and Inspire Design Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

If you're doing collaborative projects and design in your classroom, you'll get practical ideas for how you can modify your projects to encourage collaboration and real-world learning. This example highlights the creativity and engagement app-building can inspire in students. You know, I don't have a lot of companies on here.

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How edtech supports teacher work-life balance and wellbeing

Neo LMS

One of the greatest lessons I learned as a former educator turned e-learning company leader is that an organization is only as successful as its employees. Why edtech is needed for teacher work-life balance and wellbeing. One of these changes is edtech. Read more: How edtech strengthens parental engagement in online learning.

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Infusing PBL with edtech to enhance collaboration, critical thinking

eSchool News

With advances in digital tools, many teachers are finding that using edtech tools in PBL enhances projects by providing direct access to greater sources of information and by allowing students to collaborate more easily. These are all important skills to have when moving beyond the classroom and into the real world.

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As Number of Edtech Providers Grow, Some Say Student Privacy Needs a Reset

Edsurge

The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. Keeping a Safe Distance The companies that work with schools are aware of this concern.

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The Edtech Industry Has An Oversaturation Problem

Edsurge

There are always new products coming out in the edtech landscape, but somehow a couple software platforms monopolize the industry and are used by teachers everywhere, leaving smaller companies and edtech startups facing an uphill battle. We go through significant decision fatigue and “which edtech program should I use?”

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