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How to ensure edtech ROI? Ask these 4 questions

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Across New Hampshire, school leaders are searching for strategies to ensure that their edtech investments are being leveraged to pay dividends on student engagement, acceleration of learning, and saving teachers’ time. To explore how to increase the return on investment (ROI) of education technology, let’s take an inquiry approach.

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

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Yet Ballard’s main focus is not the tools themselves, but rather, how to support teachers leveraging edtech to help improve student learning. “I For example, in one of our focus groups, we asked teachers to examine the prototype for a tool they could use to evaluate whether and how to use edtech. Amy Ballard, Ph.D.,

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Teacher Self-Reflection is Hard. Here’s How Technology Can Help

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That’s the reason why teacher self-reflection is included in most schools’ professional learning standards and rubrics. In the AI Coach platform, teachers have specialized tools to analyze their classroom teaching videos and then leave timestamped comments tied to their professional goals.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

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Yet even that kind of change signals to students that the technologies that touch their lives, in work, studying or in leisure, are going to continuously change. Many of those technologies support collaboration. But how they learn has changed in big ways. But using technology is only a part of the journey.

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Using Data to Support Personalized Learning Pathways

edWeb.net

Now, the mission is to figure out what data to track and how to use it. One key piece of information is how students are using educational technology, such as when do they access their devices, what programs are they using, and how long they use them. They also needed to have an overall program managing the data flow.

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This Teacher Started a Hands-On PD Lab That’s Sparking Change Across the District

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Along the way, we learned a lot about how to teach coding skills and what types of professional development opportunities effectively supported our efforts. I became increasingly frustrated with the lack of technology support and PD opportunities in our district. Dr. Douglas has noticed the change.

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Managing and Sharing Your Education Data Effectively

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She also has extensive experience helping K-12 schools implement 1:1 programs and in disseminating problem-based and project-based learning methodologies that focus on helping each student develop his or her own voice. He also works with edWeb.net to write articles on their professional learning edWebinars. Join the Community.

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