Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2020

Following nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd and others at the hands of police, I have received a slew of emails from edtech companies containing statements of solidarity and inclusion, explaining that the company supports diversity and does not tolerate racism. Fellow white educators: this is our edtech moment.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

The infusion of technology into our culture is the greatest change that our educational system has ever experienced. So how does a teacher find new edtech products suitable for their classroom and determine their value? Tips for discovering the best edtech tools for your classroom. Read edtech-focused blogs.

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ED Surge

APRIL 6, 2022

While they’re both ostensibly working to make education as strong as possible, educators and edtech don’t always see eye to eye. Observers of the space, for instance, have long noted that teachers are often excluded from edtech procurement , as are higher ed faculty and staff. during a panel at ASU-GSV on Monday.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

In education, Black and Hispanic students face inequities in schools every day, whether through disciplinary actions, course placement or culturally irrelevant content. This story about racial bias in edtech was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

When teachers pack up their classrooms for the last time to start their edtech careers, where exactly are they going? Former educators told us they had moved on to become UX designers, part of sales teams and founders of their own edtech companies. Edtech is not going to be the solution for every teacher,” she says.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 26, 2022

That's why she uses edtech tools in the classroom to provide a safe space where she can encourage all types of learners to contribute. Roshan recently shared her ideas about how to use edtech to engage introverted learners in a TED-Ed Educator Talk. When Roshan was in high school, she feared the moment she might be called on in class.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

The next step for school leaders is to focus on purchasing edtech strategically, ensuring that these tools genuinely make a positive difference in teaching and learning. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2017

Education leaders seeking to improve learning outcomes for English Learners have started exploring ways to leverage edtech tools to meet students’ diverse cultural and linguistic needs. Maintaining open lines of communication and feedback with edtech providers to continuously improve the products available in the market.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Impossibility of EdTech To my school’s credit, they knew there was a problem. While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. Edtech has a product that takes care of it for you.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Bearing that in mind, unless you've spent years in classrooms full of students, working against the demands of curriculum mandates, IEP or 504 modifications and state testing requirements, I implore you—each of my colleagues in edtech proffering your solutions to schools—to begin conversations by asking teachers what they need.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Sustainable change relies on understanding people, culture, and processes. EdTech Tools for Administrators Facebook : Create an information hub for your building that can quickly and easily get important information in the hands of your stakeholders. This is best accomplished through collaboration, consensus, and understanding.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Effective edtech has never — and should never — be designed to replace human relationships with students. One lesson we’ve learned is that the current wave of AI-powered edtech is not all that different from the products and programs we are used to. The most critical factor in selecting edtech is its evidence base.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

and begun to collaboratively change the culture of my school. As a result, I have seen my own knowledge increase in these areas, participated in exciting professional development opportunities, presented at both my school and at other events on web 2.0,

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Every content experience is embedded in a cultural or community framework.” Meeting the Demand Since the start of the pandemic, usage and engagement of the early childhood classes and products has soared, edtech leaders say.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

But as someone who has long helped entrepreneurs enter and grow within the edtech space, I can say that turning a good idea into a working innovation that helps educators and students remains a challenge. Gone are the requirements of rapid growth at every stage of an edtech startup, which often lead to a sense of burnout and disappointment.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

Equipped with a set of tech skills gained from pandemic remote learning and the rise of technology in teaching generally, current teachers are making a huge career pivot into edtech or other education organizations. Our world seems so siloed from other professional settings, with specific language, practices and culture.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Edtech can help. So lets look at the most common challenges language learners face and the surprising ways edtech can overcome them. For the ESL student, developing a presentation about their home country, food, or really anything unique to their culture is a chance for a student to show off what they know. and Jotform.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2017

When considering the benefits to using edtech, an eighth grade student at Elizabeth Forward School District said, “When we started in first and second grade, everything was on paper and it was just a lot more difficult because if you forgot something, you can’t go back to school and get it. The district’s Technology Director, Mary B.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

As educational leaders we should be modeling, supporting, and collaborating with our respective staffs to create a vibrant school culture that fosters risk-taking and innovation. I’ll save my thoughts on organizing a major EdTech event at my school for another day. Thank you to Lisa Nielsen for motivating me to write this post!

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Edthena

AUGUST 12, 2021

Many educators have heard of culturally responsive teaching, but do they really know what that entails? Culturally responsive teaching is a framework and approach for how to teach. So, what is culturally responsive teaching? Culturally responsive teaching accelerates student achievement.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2020

Most of all, the learning culture will most certainly be different, and it will be a travesty if it is not. Now is the time to seize on lessons learned as schools prepare to move into uncharted territory whether the COVID19 rages on or begins to subside. Teaching will and must be different. Leadership must and will be different.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Leaders must begin to transform school culture in ways where there are actually fundamental changes in teaching and learning so that technology is not just a gimmick or tool used to engage students. Pedagogy first, technology second when appropriate.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Edtech plays an increasingly important role in the classroom. In addition to driving collaboration and productive social interactions, innovative edtech can enable personalized learning based on a student’s individual SEL needs to support differentiated learning recovery.

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Edthena

MARCH 11, 2022

Positive school culture is key to thriving teachers and students. But school leaders have so much on their plates and it can be tricky to know how to support something as broad as the culture of a school. The founding principal of Stonefields School in Auckland, New Zealand, has prioritized cultivating a positive school culture.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ten years ago, Pooja Sankar set out to build an edtech tool that gave shy students superpowers in their college courses. So it seemed like a good time to ask what she learned over the past decade, how COVID has changed teaching and what advice she has for other edtech entrepreneurs. program at Stanford University.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When you think of culturally responsive teaching, you may not immediately think of dopamine and oxytocin. The brain is a learning machine” according to Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , who is on a mission to educate educators about the neuroscience behind culturally responsive teaching (CRT). “The

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In collaboration with EdSurge, Northern Ignite hosted an event with 700 attendees at Ramapo College that exposed educators to both the edtech and edtech venture capital worlds. The post Sparking a Culture of Innovation in Northern New Jersey appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Edthena

AUGUST 2, 2022

This past month, we’ve been reading about student voice and edtech choice, both important to intentionally incorporate into your classroom this fall. ” Here are four ways to help student voices lead and shape the classroom culture. 5 questions to choose the right edtech for your classroom. Summer is going by quickly.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Efforts to enhance these relationships should include culturally responsive teaching and creating a sense of belonging to ensure that each student can participate at the fullest level. Edtech and Professional Development. The knowledge of these tenets will then be infused into other core content areas as appropriate.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

The answer(s) may have implications for designing new edtech tools—and VR technology intended to be used beyond the classroom, too. Does edtech work better as a solo encounter or a group experience? To immerse, or not to immerse? For professors designing virtual reality versions of Shakespeare’s plays, that is the question.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

As an assistant professor of edtech, I often think about the implications of AI on teaching and learning, especially as I experiment with implementing various practices and approaches with the pre-service educators I teach. (if AI can do all of this.) Integrating generative AI into education is complex.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 24, 2018

So why and how should one incorporate backchanneling during workshops, presentations, faculty meetings, after hours, or in classrooms?

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

This is the second in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Latinos who work in education are ready for change , and they say their culture already holds dear values like community-building and generosity that are needed to improve education for their students. Read the first part here.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

But Jeff Bezos is known for playing the long game, and public education is very much part of it, opines Dominik Dresel, a school administrator and edtech entrepreneur. “I The Next Wave of Edtech Will Be Very, Very Big — and Global by Betsy Corcoran Braced for the next wave of edtech? Then, Public Education. It will be big.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It was an example of how in the past few years edtech has been both a success story—allowing schools to keep learning from stalling out during the COVID-19 pandemic—and a spotlight alerting schools to the knotty social challenges confronting them. Superintendents at the panel noted some of those successes.

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