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Guest Post: How We Can Reframe Edtech Selection to Promote Equity

Digital Promise

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this first post, the authors outline how they centered equity as they developed an edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation guide for school systems leaders.

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Three Questions to Center Equity in Your Edtech Procurement

Digital Promise

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this second post, the author outlines three questions school and systems leaders should answer before procurement when considering new edtech.

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5 edtech resources that support literacy in elementary school

eSchool News

Key points: Literacy is critical for students–and elementary years are a pivotal time These online tools help students develop essential literacy skills See related article: How efficacy studies improve literacy instruction For more news on literacy, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Fall is the best time of year in Montana.

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How to Fund School Safety Upgrades

EdTech Magazine

Schools are taking initiative to update their physical security systems for the modern era. For example, several states have adopted Alyssa’s Law, which requires public elementary and secondary schools to have a silent panic alarm that contacts local law enforcement in emergencies. In some cases, legislation has spurred the changes.

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Why experts say now is the time to assess your district’s edtech use

eSchool News

Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? Whether it’s a free resource or an edtech product, there’s still some kind of criteria” that needs to be met. And Union County is far from alone. And Union County is far from alone.

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EdTech that “Sparks Joy”

Neo LMS

Ever keen to catch a trend on the upswing, I’ve curated a list of EdTech tools, apps and programs that are not only effective, but teach through joy. EdTech that sparks joy. But what of the more complex arena of senior appropriate EdTech — can it too be joyful? International Journal of Research & Method in Education 249.

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Edtech tools to beat our state of emergency in reading and math achievement

eSchool News

To support the success of all students in the post pandemic world and to address the state of emergency in our students’ reading and math skills, our district has reviewed its edtech resources. We’ve decided to keep those that are proven effective in helping our students regain lost learning. Alongside Eureka Math, we use i-Ready.

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